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I got worried as my best friend shops there with his family and let him know what had happened there just incase.
The whole thing is terrifying.
Makes me wonder what would have happened if she wasn’t able to purchase the laptops.
@Duenan @Taleya "A mother says a man armed with a knife told her to 'just stop crying' as he forced her to drive and buy laptops in Melbourne's south-east while her six-month-old daughter sat in the back seat.
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"Police say the victim was getting out of her car at the Stud Park Shopping Centre [in Rowville] last Friday night when she was confronted by a man who threatened her with a knife and forced her back into the driver's seat of her Suzuki S Cross."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-17/woman-child-abducted-melbourne-shopping-centre-laptops-police/103859562
There was a thread on here about someone considering moving to Rowville?
Yeah, here's a good example of why that's a bad idea...
@ajsadauskas @Duenan @Taleya
Is it just me, or is this whole story so bizarre that there has to be more to it than what has been reported so far?
My mind immediately went into 'what if it happened to me' mode and there are many questions based on info we have been given so far.
In a couple of weeks, I suspect this will be a different story. hopefully with an offender identified.
I don’t think there’s any more to it than what’s been reported on the media though I did read the entire abc article at work and saw it a lot on tv.
To some degree it was planned and calculated. because of where the offender was telling the mother to go and had to have a place to purchase the laptops.
He chose high value items that could be easily resold too.
Last of all he picked a victim carefully where he had leverage against them.
I really do hope they find the offender and put him away for quite awhile.
What do you think there might be more to the story?