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Title: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: albitz on 26 August 2009, 15:23:02
.....or anything else. :o :o >:( >:(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8222087.stm
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: nick v6 on 26 August 2009, 15:28:55
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and given bail
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Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 26 August 2009, 16:08:50
Terrible and very disturbing! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

How many of you go armed with the cash when looking at a car though? :-/ :-/ :-X

I know I don't, even when going to a car sales forecourt! ;)
If interested, I then go to the bank to pick up the money required 8-) 8-)
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: KillerWatt on 26 August 2009, 17:54:57
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How many of you go armed with the cash when looking at a car though? :-/ :-/ :-X
I do
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: STMO999 on 26 August 2009, 18:02:50
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How many of you go armed with the cash when looking at a car though? :-/ :-/ :-X
I do

Me too. I went with £6000 in my sky to buy the ZT. I would be very wary of going to Barking with it though. I lived in Ilford/Barking for a while and it's a bit, erm, wild.
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 26 August 2009, 18:42:24
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How many of you go armed with the cash when looking at a car though? :-/ :-/ :-X
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Me too. I went with £6000 in my sky to buy the ZT. I would be very wary of going to Barking with it though. I lived in Ilford/Barking for a while and it's a bit, erm, wild.


Well you really would be barking mad to do so!! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;)
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: KillerWatt on 26 August 2009, 18:43:17
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How many of you go armed with the cash when looking at a car though? :-/ :-/ :-X
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Me too. I went with £6000 in my sky to buy the ZT. I would be very wary of going to Barking with it though. I lived in Ilford/Barking for a while and it's a bit, erm, wild.
A lot of places are wild, but this isn't a particularly new crime as such...it's just always been done backwards before (they normally come to view the car, then take it).

£6K is quite a tidy sum, but apparently that's nowhere near getting the adrenaline flowing compared to having to go to Park Royal to do a transaction involving £250K.

Mind you, for £250K it's pretty much a written guarantee that most people would make sure they are fully prepared for any eventuality.
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: Plomien on 26 August 2009, 20:39:30
I just do a bank transfer saves messing around no need to carry cash at all :y
Title: Re: Be careful when going to buy cars....
Post by: jimbobmccoy on 26 August 2009, 21:07:18
I'm not too far from barking and a bit wild is an understatement. I'd be nervous with a fiver in me pocket (not that I'd go there) and if I did I'd employ the ghetto walk (duck and weave at random) to avoid being hit by a stray bullet, or at least make people think I was mad enough o not be worth bothering.