Oh, my goodness! If this story is indeed true, and I would check it 
out on Snopes first, you betcha God is in control!


Love and Blessings to ALL OF YOU,

Reeva Parry.


At 02:23 PM 3/26/2008, Lelia Struve sent:
>
>Lelia
>
>Please take a minute to read this. This is very scary and could 
>happen to any of us.. Seems like every nice thing people do for one 
>another can be perverted. A new twist on kidnapping from a very 
>smart survivor:
>
>
>About a month ago there was a woman standing by the mall entrance 
>passing out flyers to all the women going in. The woman had written 
>the flyer herself to tell about an experience she had, so that she 
>might warn other women. The previous day, this woman had finished 
>shopping, went out to her car and discovered that she had a flat.
>
>She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the flat. A 
>nice man dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase walked 
>up to her and said, 'I noticed you're changing a flat tire.
>
>Would you like me to take care of it for you?' The woman was 
>grateful for his offer and accepted his help.
>
>They chatted amiably while the man changed the flat, and then put 
>the flat tire and the jack in the trunk, shut it and dusted his hands off.
>
>The woman thanked him profusely, and as she was about to get in her 
>car, the man told her that he left his car around on the other side 
>of the mall, and asked if she would mind giving him a lift to his car.
>
>She was a little surprised and she asked him why his car was on other side.
>
>He explained that he had seen an old friend in the mall that he 
>hadn't seen for some time and they had a bite to eat, visited for a 
>while, and he got turned around in the mall and left through the 
>wrong exit, and now he was running late... The woman hated to tell 
>him 'no' because he had just rescued her from having to change her 
>flat tire all by herself, but she felt uneasy. (Trust that gut feeling!)
>
>Then she remembered seeing the man put his briefcase in her trunk 
>before shutting it and before he asked her for a ride to his car.
>
>She told him that she'd be happy to drive him around to his car, But 
>she just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. (Smart woman!!)
>
>She said she would only be a few minutes; he could sit down in her 
>car and wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be.
>
>She hurried into the mall, and told a security guard what had 
>happened, the guard came out to her car with her, but the man had 
>left. They opened the trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took 
>it down to the police station.
>
>The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they could return 
>it to the man). What they found was rope, duct tape, and knives. 
>When the police checked her 'flat' tire, there was nothing wrong 
>with it; the air had simply been let out. It was obvious what the 
>man's intention was, and obvious that he had carefully thought it 
>out in advance. The woman was blessed to have escaped harm. (Amen? 
>thank you, God!)
>
>How much worse it would have been if she had children with her and 
>had them wait in the car while the man fixed the tire, or if she had 
>a baby strapped into a car seat? Or if she'd gone against her 
>judgment and given him a lift?
>
>I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know. It may save a life.