From: Jian Shen From: Cami Cooley Subject: True Car Jacking Experience -----Original Message----- . as discussed, this email forwarded to me last week. victim was the friend of a friend. incident occurred on wed, 9/8. Read on. Hi friends, Please take a couple minutes of your precious time to read this real-life horrifying experience that I have gone through just last week, I guarantee that it will make you to be more aware from now on.....................I was CAR-JACKED and escaped death by an inch!!!!!!!!!!!! It was 4:30 pm last Wednesday in Tysons Corner Shopping Center's parking lot, I parked my car in the middle aisle directly from Bloomingdale's entrance, not too far down the row, just 1/3 down the lot. I was walking to my car, was about to open the door to get in and all of a sudden I heard a man's voice right behind me saying: "get in the car, do not scream or I'll stab you....!" and I could feel a knife poking right in the back of me. It was a black man about 6 ft. tall and at least 250 lbs., he's huge! He forced me into the car, I first sat in the driver's seat then he forced me to climb over the passenger's seat so he could get into the driver's seat, once he's in, he locked the door with me in it. I was terrified but I still had the keys in my right hand and my purse was on my lap so it kinds of blocked my hand holding the keys. The guy keeps poking the knife at me and asked for the keys. I was so scared that he would get the keys and drives me away and G-d knows what he would have done to me, so I kept holding onto to it wouldn't give it to him. At that moment all I could think of was how could I get out of the car, all of a sudden I just thought of an idea to trick him, G-d must have been there with me to give me a wise idea! With my purse still blocking my right hand with the keys, I lowered my hand to the side of the passenger's seat so I could drop the keys to the floor of the car, but as I was doing that I tried to beg him not to hurt me really loud so he couldn't hear the noise of the keys being dropped. Once I was done, I showed him both of my hands and said "I don't have the keys, I'm so scared I probably dropped it outside the driver's door!". The guy didn't believe me so he reached over my lap to looked for the keys, I heart just stopped right there, I said to myself: "my life is over!", but thanks G-d, either his hand was too big or the keys were dropped too low on the floor, he couldn't find it. Next, he layed the knife next to my left lap on the passenger's seat and started to tape my mouth up (he had a big roll of duck tape with him). He then turned his back against me and was going to look for the keys over the driver's door. As soon as he turned, I quickly unlocked the door and opened it, at the same time untaped my mouth, grabbed the knife and was going to throw it outside the door. But he heard it and turned back to grab me and the knife from me and was going to stab me. I struggled with him and the knife, at the same time extended both of my legs out to keep the door from being closed, I was only 1 inch from being stabbed. At that very moment I saw 2 people walking to their car so I screamed so loud for help. The guy realized at that moment that the door couldn't be closed, it's too late because more people are coming out so he fled the scene. After he fled, I was still holding the knife in a traumatized state of mind. He also left behind the big roll of duck tape. Within a minute, a police happened to drive by and with the help of the people who witnessed the guy fleeing the scene, chased after the direction that he ran, including many police cars and helicopters searching the area shortly after, but unfortunately did not catch him. The police kept my car that night for fingerprints. The police officers said to me that "we're very proud of you for doing such a good job, but seriously, we don't know how such a petite woman like you could get away with such a guy that size and especially already being locked in the car with him!" Guys, this is not a joke! I thanked G-d for being there with me or else I could have been driven away, perhaps raped and killed! I beg you all, especially female friends, to be more aware of your surroundings when you get to your car. No one could expect such an incident could happen in broad day light (4:30 pm) in such a prestigious area of McLean, Virginia. Things can happen anywhere, anytime.......because there're too many crazy people out there nowaday! I was advised after the incident that, if anything like that happens again (hopefully not), DO NOT GET IN THE CAR, because the chance of escaping is very slim, but to throw the keys as far as possible so the guy won't have enough time to react. Always be aware of your surroundings and the people around you. In addition, check the back seats of your car before you get in just to make sure no one is hiding back there waiting for you! I'm still traumatized and haunted by this experience! Everytime I close my eyes to go to sleep, this scene just keeps playing back in my mind and I can just feel the knife going down on me. I pray that this situation would not happen to any of my friends, but PLEASE BE CAREFUL! I will continue to do more charity works for G-d has saved my life! You're welcome to share this story to your family, friends or anyone you cared about, trust me, it will help to save lives! It was broadcast all over the news (NBC, CBS, FOX, different radio stations, Washington Post.......). ------- End of forwarded message -------