I witnessed a crimeFreddy Woo writes, "A group of us once staggered home so insensible with drink that we failed to notice someone being killed and buried in a shallow grave not more than 50 yards away. A crime unsolved to this day."
Have you witnessed a crime and done bugger all about it? Or are you a have-a-go hero?
Whatever. Tell us about it...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:53)
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From late 2005 until early 2007......I worked as a Marketing Manager’s bitch in a Ford garage.
Now in the years I worked for Ford about 8 employees were either arrested of dismissed because of theft of car parts, but strangely enough my story isn’t about one of the employees theft sprees...
In the summer of 2006 our sales guys had ordered in some fancy version of the Ford Focus to display in the showroom… it was their pride and joy and they all spent weeks before its arrival calculating the exact location in the showroom where it would sit, suddenly everything was about aesthetics and how visually pleasing it would be to our customers.
Well the big day came and the car arrived and everyone danced around with cheesy salesman grins shouting out the cars vital statistics at the unprepared general public… anyhoo… two days later a guy strolls into the showroom and walks with purpose up to the Focus. He has a toolbox with him and in front of at least 20 Ford employees begins to take the windscreen glass out of the car. He looks very professional in his blue jumpsuit and has the kit, suction cups and all. After around 10 minutes the guy has the glass and casually walks out the building, gets into a van, and drives off... no one says a thing.
About an hour later our Parts Manager comes in and notices a distinct (how did he put it) “lack of glass” on the Focus and asked our receptionist what the deal was. She casually mentioned that a man came in earlier and replaced the screen. My boss then pointed out that to replace something you actually have to leave a substitute or restore something and then proceeded to lose his shit.
The next day we found out that four other garages on our trading estate had been hit by the same guy and not one person had asked for I.D or anything of the sort!
I have to say I was amazed and slightly impressed that this guy had the balls to do what he did. I must also confess that I was left pretty darn confused as to the purpose of stealing windscreen glass… perhaps he worked for AutoGlass or perhaps he was attempting to steal the entire car, piece by piece, who knows!?
(, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 17:17, Reply)
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