Dianna Vesta
11-20-2002, 12:39 PM
See the letter below- If you think about it we all drop our keys off at so many places where we also give our address. Years ago there was even a case where valet parkers were making copies of keys from regular customers at upscale places then working with the wait staff to obtain credit card billing info. Had someone not of said anything it might have gone on a long time because who would think they were robbed this way? Houses were being robbed like crazy all over Miami Beach.
I have a key ring that pulls apart- house keys on one side, truck on the other.
DEAR ABBY: I would like to warn women, especially young women, about the
danger of giving their car keys, with their house keys
attached, to anyone. A good friend's daughter went to a well-known tire
company to have a flat repaired while she waited. Without thinking, she
handed her key ring with all her keys on it to the serviceman and
waited.
What she didn't know is that most of these places also have machines
that make copies of keys. One of the servicemen copied her apartment
key, and two days later entered her apartment late at night and raped
her.
This was a business she frequented, and they had all the information in
their computer about where she lived, her phone number, etc. The man was
caught months later and the police found out that he had done this
before. He is now in jail, and my friend's daughter is trying to go on
with her life. I called my daughter right away and told her this story
so she could learn from it, too. Please, Abby, warn your readers to have
their personal keys on another key ring or have a key ring that
separates the car keys from one's personal keys. Perhaps this will save
another woman from tragedy. MARILYN IN MARIETTA, GA.
I have a key ring that pulls apart- house keys on one side, truck on the other.
DEAR ABBY: I would like to warn women, especially young women, about the
danger of giving their car keys, with their house keys
attached, to anyone. A good friend's daughter went to a well-known tire
company to have a flat repaired while she waited. Without thinking, she
handed her key ring with all her keys on it to the serviceman and
waited.
What she didn't know is that most of these places also have machines
that make copies of keys. One of the servicemen copied her apartment
key, and two days later entered her apartment late at night and raped
her.
This was a business she frequented, and they had all the information in
their computer about where she lived, her phone number, etc. The man was
caught months later and the police found out that he had done this
before. He is now in jail, and my friend's daughter is trying to go on
with her life. I called my daughter right away and told her this story
so she could learn from it, too. Please, Abby, warn your readers to have
their personal keys on another key ring or have a key ring that
separates the car keys from one's personal keys. Perhaps this will save
another woman from tragedy. MARILYN IN MARIETTA, GA.