Friday, July 29, 2011

Story Time ~ 2011 Jul 29, 1025hrs

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Original Post:
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Someone sent me this via email today. I have no way of verifying this story… but I find this story very interesting with its twist. Also, you can learn a lot from just reading this story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Bag Snatching
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Be careful at any shopping centre toilets – this happened at Singapore OG toilet. A woman visited the toilet in O.G at Bugis and hung her handbag on the back of the toilet door. As she carried on about her business, a hand suddenly appeared over the top of the stall and grabbed her bag clean from the hook. She immediately reported the incident to the head of security, who in turn informed the manager of the store. A couple of days later she had a call from the head of security to say her bag had been found without her purse. So she arranged a convenient time to go and meet the manager to collect her things. On arriving at the O. G. store at the agreed time, the manager was not expecting her and neither was the head of secur! ity. No one from the store had actually called her as the bag had still not been found. When the lady got home, her house had been burgled with no sign of forced entry. The Police believe the robbers had used her Driving License for the address and her keys to let themselves in. This is real - it isn't just a scaremongering story. Many will be so shocked at how complex bag snatching crime has become. Please be extra vigilant ladies AND gents (with your man bags) there are a lot of desperate criminals out there.
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Update: 2011 Sep 08, 1756hrs
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Thanks to comments below, you can now verify the story at the links provided. It also offers very good advice on how to deal with all the risks and security that is present in this story.
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Links here go to the original articles online. But just in case they're not there anymore, I've provided the screen grabs images here... just click on these images to enlarge for easy reading.
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2 comments:

  1. gluinoTuesday, August 02, 2011 1:00:00 PM

    This was an easy google:

    http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/handbag.asp

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  2. tape44Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:16:00 PM

    Never happened in any OG and probably never in Singapore before.

    mypaper article here:
    http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110810-293628.html

    And there is an official response here:
    http://www.og.com.sg/toilet_handbag_theft_hoax.html

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