27 Aug 2010 12:00 AM:

PLEASE READ THIS.... IT MAY HELP YOU AVOID BEING A VICTIM OF CRIME. SINCE POSTING THIS EVENT. I HAVE LEARNED THAT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CAR JACKED AND LOST  100S OF POUNDS - PASSPORTS ETC..IF ONLY THEY WOULD HAVE WARNED EVERYONE IT COULD HAVE PREVENTED ANOTHER VICTIM..

THAT IS WHY I WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW..SO THEY CAN BE PREPARED.

We have recently drove from the uk to Murcia in Spain and thought i should warn people of the risk and how the Car Jackers Work, especially after an attempted and failed Car jacking on myself and family recently in August this year.

We was on our way to Murcia and we got onto the motorway around Barcelona. When i noticed a mercedes bens colour gold/bronze 2009 saloon type model was behind us. It then indicated to go past when we heard a bang under the car, the mercedes then pulled along side and a male in the front passanger seat was  waving a yellow jacket and telling us to pull over, he was shouting the word ball and pointing under the car. i thought it was odd  and my wife said pullover. We pulled over and one of the males from the mercedes a bolivian looking carcasion was pointing under my passenger side my Wife opened her door and the male was asking for me to look under, so i turned the car engine off and got out. I left my door open and walked round to  the side. 

The carjacker tried to get me to bend down and look under the car, when i noticed he had something hidden behind the cover of a high vis jacket in his right hand. I also noticed another male slide out from the rear of the merc rear seat and run to the driver side. I shouted to my wife car jacking, shut her door and ran round to face the other car jacker who stopped at my door in shock, I then knocked him out of the way got into my car and shut the doors. To my suprise the Car jackers both bolivian looking ran off to there merc, which then sped off. 

The motor way was very busy and the incident happened around 2pm.

In hindsight, i should have acted on my experiences and not pulled over. I should have also not got out of the car or allowed any door to be open. I should have just carried on driving and at least dialled 112. After the event we reported the crime to the police.

We had a very lucky escape and i would just like everyone to be aware of this nasty type of crime which seems to be quite common around this area and by posting this warning, i hope it makes everyone more vigilant.  

The males where aged 25-30 around 5.4 in height.

Thread: BEWARE CAR JACKING AROUND BARCELONA AUGUST 2010

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