True or not?

chrismine

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WhatsApp message doing the rounds - can someone please confirm if it's true?

http://www.woes.co.za/bydrae/druk/gorrelstuk/waarskuwing-dit-gaan-landwyd-gebeur-asb-suid-afrika
WAARSKUWING, DIT GAAN LANDWYD GEBEUR ASB,
Ons het 2 plekke in Centurion waar hierdie modus operandi aan die orde van die dag is. Pick ‘n Pay Lifestile Centrum word daar ‘n gemiddeld van 10 to 15 vroue per week gearresteer. Hul het ‘n onafhanklike sekuriteits maatskappy. Hulle moet suksesse wys om die kontrak te behou. Daar is dan van die wagte wat “under cover” werk. Dis dan hulle wat produkte in jou handsak of onder die baby stoeltjies wat in die trollie gestoot word in gooi. Die wag by die deur word verwittig – en whalla – daar sit die arme onskuldige vrou. Vriende van ons is so daar betrap, en die vrou is ‘n prokureur – ma met 3 mnde oue babietjie. Die ander plek is hoeka Dischem Mall at Reds. Gereelde voorvalle ook daar. Polisieman se vrou nou so rukkie terug gearresteer vir iets wat onder ‘n tydskrif ingedruk was. iets wat hulle nooit koop of gebruik nie. meeste van hierdie voorvalle word deur die wagte gepleeg. Ek het ook gehoor dat van hulle vrouens wat klaar betaal het voorkeer net aan die anderkant van die kasregisters, en dan iets uithou wat kwansuis uit die trollie geval het. terwyl die vrou dan omdraai en redeneer dat dit nie hare is nie, plant ‘n ander wag iets in haar trollies.
CAPTAIN P J BOTHA
CLUSTER VISPOL - CO-ORDINATOR
SAPS MAHWELERENG
Julle dames en mans laat weet julle vrouens en meisies en kinders. Die nuutste craze wat die rondte doen is dat terwyl jy shop, gooi mense nou goed in jou oop handsak sonder dat jy daarvan bewus is. Sodra jy dan
uitloop skree die alarms en as jy dan ondersoek word, word die "gesteelde goedere" in jou besit gevind. Dit het 'n Vrydagmiddag met my vriendin in Dischem gebeur. Sy moes 2 dae in die tronk slaap omdat sy eers Maandag in
die hof kon verskyn. Sy het haar saak verloor en nou het sy 'n kriminele rekord en moet 16 uur gemeenskapsdiens doen in Soweto! No Jokes people, hou julle handsakke toe! Bc of Copy en Paste asb vir almal wat julle ken!!!"
STUUR ASB VIR AL JUL VRIENDE AAN.....GROOT-GROOT ASSEBLIEF!:confused:
 
Without reading: If you have to ask it's NOT.

/off to read the post

Called it. It's Bullshyte :D
 
How did you disprove it in the end?

Hul het ‘n onafhanklike sekuriteits maatskappy. Hulle moet suksesse wys om die kontrak te behou.

Who the fark employs a security company on a success bases where catching someone in the act trumps actual stock losses? I mean if you have one of these "thieves" caught a month and you still have 1/2 your stock stolen? Really? :D :D :D It's bullshyte and smells of it. Success is measured in the stock loss declining not by catching "thieves"
 
Without reading: If you have to ask it's NOT.

/off to read the post

Called it. It's Bullshyte :D

http://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/showthread.php/169282-Lees-hier!

Presies die selfde ding het met een van my vriende gebeur, maar dis nou al meer as 2 jaar terug wat dit gebeur het. Op daardie stadium het hulle gedink "Christiaan" hulle seuntjie het die goed gevat en in sy baba stiel gesit. Hulle was nie bewus van die MO nie. Gelukkig vir hulle was die saak uit die hof gegooi. Dit het wel baie trauma veroorsaak, deurdat die wagte en die polisie hulle soos geharde kriminele hanteer het.

Exactly the same thing happened to one of my friends, but it's been more than two years ago that it happened. At the time, they thought "Christiaan" their boy well taken and put in his baby craftsmanship. They were not aware of the MO no. Fortunately for them, the case thrown out of court. It does cause a lot of trauma, because the guards and the police handled as hardened criminals.
There's some truth to it.
 
This article, from three years ago, states that steps will be taken in the future to prevent this - the fake email, not the crime :D

PS I came across this post because I just saw the message myself, and recall seeing it a long time ago.
 
I don't believe it either, but someone sent the same thing to me this morning, so I want to post to them irrefutable truth so that they can get it out of their system.

If I just say it's false in my opinion, it'll only lead to an argument.
 
I don't believe it either, but someone sent the same thing to me this morning, so I want to post to them irrefutable truth so that they can get it out of their system.

If I just say it's false in my opinion, it'll only lead to an argument.

Simple: Stock theft is measured in stock losses not catching of criminal red-handed
 
Ag jissis that is why I will NEVER be a part of a community neighborhood watch or similiar groups. TSEK
 
I'm going with urban legend on this one.

Firstly. Why no name of the security company. But the police officer with the most common Afrikaans surname in SA. Also. There are so many surveillance cameras in shopping malls these days, there would've been footage of one of the incidents.
 
Thanks people, I just needed more voices to confirm my suspicions. Clearly nonsense.
 
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