Subject: Fw: Target in Wheaton...very scary Does anyone know if this is true? THIS WAS SENT TO ME FROM A DEAR FRIEND....who got it from someone in this area. I shop at that Target and know that area so well. It is an exclusive and wealthy area across the street from St. Francis High School in DuPage County, Roosevelt Road & County Line Road, that is 97% white. What a shock it was to receive this email from another local. Frankly, I would not have been so smart. If an elderly lady had asked me for help, I probably would have gone over and been kidnapped. Now I am wiser. It is difficult to live your life with such skepticism, but it has become a matter of life or death. This is not one of those dire email warnings from a stranger; this happened in my neighborhood. Take heed! Ladies: Please be aware. And pass it on if you think this will help someone. This was passed on to me by a friend. HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED Sunday afternoon around 5 pm I headed into Target in Wheaton, IL (where crime is VERY RARE and mostly it is with bike's being stolen!!). It was still light outside and I parked fairly close to the entrance. As I got out of my car and began walking towards Target, an older lady shouted to me from the passenger seat of a car about 30 feet away from me... "ma'am you must help me, help me please, help me ma'am!" I looked at her in the eyes and started to walk towards her when all of a sudden I remembered an email my mom sent me a week or two ago (one of those forwards about safety that you generally delete, or at least I do) about rapists and abductionist using elderly people to lure women in. I paused, memorized the license plate and immediately headed into Target to get a manager to come help this lady, just in case something was up. While the woman manager headed out there I kept a close watch just because I was curious what was wrong with the lady and wanted to be sure nothing happened. The target lady got very close to the old woman in order to help her do something. Just then the back door flies open and a large man with a stocking cap on jumps out and sticks a gun to the lady's stomach as he shoves her into the back of the car. I yelled call 911 several times and just as I was saying that a policeman who happened to be on the other side of the parking lot and saw the entire thing happen, raced over to the car. He was able to stop the car and arrest the male AS WELL AS THE old lady, who was involved in the scheme. By God's grace everyone was alright, including myself, although I think we were both very shaken up. Like many of you, I would not in a million years have left an elderly person who was yelling for help if it weren't for the email I had read last week. So, I wanted to pass this along so you all can be aware and remember that you really can't trust anyone these days. You just never know when something like this could happen. I would have never dreamed it to happen to me.

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Bob Hoyer, Broker, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage