A teenage girl is sending a warning about what it means if you have a flannel shirt on your windshield. It was when she just realized that her life was in serious jeopardy when a flannel shirt was on her windshield after she got out from work and walked up to her car.
According to a widely circulated Facebook post, shirts could be thrown on the windshields of victims’ automobiles by carjackers or sexual predators.
Predators’ concerns about throwing a used shirt on the windshield of their victims’ automobiles are unsubstantiated, just as earlier warnings about predators leaving “bait” on their victims’ windshields like cash or flyers.
On February 17, 2017, Ashley Hardacre from Flint, Michigan, wrote a widely read warning on Facebook, claiming that a predator may have tried to use a shirt on the windshield of her vehicle as bait to kidnap her or steal her vehicle from a dark mall parking lot. She said that he noticed a flannel shirt tangled around her windshield wipers when she was leaving her job. The 19-year-old became concerned when she noticed two vehicles lingering close to her car.
In the Facebook post, she wrote:
“As some of you know I work at a store in the Mall out in flint. I worked a closing shift tonight so me and the girls I work with always walk out together to make sure we are safe in the parking lot. I got to my car and locked the doors behind me immediately as I always do and noticed that there was a blue flannel shirt on my windshield. There were two cars near me and one was running so I immediately felt uneasy and knew I couldn’t get out to get it off. At first I thought maybe someone had just thrown it on my car for some odd reason. I used my windshield wipers to try to get them off but the shirt was completely wrapped around my wiper blade. I had seen posts lately about people finding things under their windshield wipers in the burton/Flint area as an attempt to get girls out of their cars and distracted.”
“Luckily I knew better than to remove the shirt with cars around me so I drove over to a place where I was safe and quickly rolled down my window and got the shirt off. I don’t know why the shirt was on my car but it had to have been intentional the way it was put on there. I really can’t think of another reason as to why someone would put it on my car. Tomorrow I am informing security of the situation and making them walk me to my car from now on. It definitely frightened me a little bit ? I’m so glad my parents had informed me that it was happening in our area, I just never thought it would potentially happen to my car.”
The woman said in her Facebook post that she wasn’t sure why the shirt was on her windshield, but as the post was shared hundreds of thousands of times, the theory that it had been put there as bait by a predator or carjacker swiftly gained popularity. However, according to Flint police, putting shirts on windshields is not a widespread practice, but people should constantly be on the lookout for potential threats.
Detective Sergeant Brad Wangler of the Flint Township Police claimed that he got in touch with the woman after seeing her social media post. In order to possibly identify the person responsible, the event is currently being investigated by the local police department and mall security.
He reassures the populace, however, that it is not a frequent practice, at least not in the Flint region, and that there is no need to be alarmed. He said, “Nothing like this has ever happened before, there have been no other incidences like this. It’s kind of unknown as to what or why or who [did this].”
Wangler advises residents to call 911 immediately in the future if they notice anything odd. He asserted that the earlier police are notified, the better. Residents should be “vigilant” when looking for suspicious items on their windshields, Wangler said.
“If something doesn’t seem right, or the hairs on the back of your neck stand up,” Wangler said. “But by all means, we need to know about this stuff when it happened.”
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Sources: Taphaps, Lovethispic, Khou
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