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Although this sounds like a fairy story it actually happened a few days ago in Essex

Young lady filling her car at a service station and a young man came over to her asking for work as a painter/decorator. She refused but he pushed his card into her hand and joined his mate in another car.

Driving away she felt woosey, saw the two men following her so she drove into someone's drive and leaned on the horn.

It turned out that there was some drug on the card; if she hadn't got help .........

ie. don't even accept a business card from a stranger.

(since separately confirmed by local neighbourhood watch)

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Warning nº 2; major hypermarket not 15 miles from me.
Bag of carrots; the shelf sticker showed it as costing 47pence (huge letters) and the product as 47 pence per kilo (tiny letters). The bag weighed just under 500grammes - ie not 47p but +/- 94p per kilo

I pointed this out to a shelf filler but 20 minutes later he was still messing about in another vegetable area and the shelf sticker was unchanged. Customer Services response was (my translation) that it would get changed sometime.

Moral - don't believe what they tell you.

sejintenej wrote: Although this sounds like a fairy story it actually happened a few days ago in Essex

It is, and no it didn't.......

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/burundanga.asp

sejintenej wrote:Young lady filling her car at a service station and a young man came over to her asking for work as a painter/decorator. She refused but he pushed his card into her hand and joined his mate in another car.

Driving away she felt woosey, saw the two men following her so she drove into someone's drive and leaned on the horn.

It turned out that there was some drug on the card; if she hadn't got help .........

ie. don't even accept a business card from a stranger.

(since separately confirmed by local neighbourhood watch)

.........................................................................................

Warning nº 2; major hypermarket not 15 miles from me.
Bag of carrots; the shelf sticker showed it as costing 47pence (huge letters) and the product as 47 pence per kilo (tiny letters). The bag weighed just under 500grammes - ie not 47p but +/- 94p per kilo

I pointed this out to a shelf filler but 20 minutes later he was still messing about in another vegetable area and the shelf sticker was unchanged. Customer Services response was (my translation) that it would get changed sometime.

Moral - don't believe what they tell you.

I couldn't have put it better myself

Interestingly, having read the Snopes article, it reminded me of an incident when in 1974 I worked in a bank in Cali, Colombia.
The accountant and sub accountant worked late one night and then went for a drink in a bar a few blocks from the bank.
According to the accountant, they awoke in his car in the early hours of the next morning. One asked the other what the time was, to discover they had both been relieved of their watches, together with their wallets and all the keys except the car keys, which were in the ignition.
As far as I know, they never reported it to Head Office, nor to their wives, but we had to change the keys to the bank the next day, not including the vault, which were too big to carry around.
They claimed they had been slipped some drug, which is probably still in use to this day.
When I was mugged, they just half strangled me to get me unconscious, but at least I didn't have a major hangover.