We'll make you a promise. We will not crowd the field of our blog with "bad news", but we thought it would be interesting to find out how often purse snatchings take place. I mean think about it. If you've purchased a snazzy designer bag for upwards of five or six hundred dollars, there's a good chance that you would chase the snatcher, before standing and watching the robber make off with your prized possession.
OK, so we checked with the Department of Justice, which is the federal office that keeps those kinds of statistics and you won't believe how often purse snatchings happen or how often this crime is attempted. In 2005 there were more than 43-thousand 500 purse snatchings and close to 33-hundred attempted purse snatchings.
So here's the good news that you can employ to hold on to that bag. Don't be careless with your bag. When you are in a store don't lay down your purse while you're trying on shoes. You know how there's that tendency to slide on the new shoes and then stroll over to the nearest mirror. A purse snatcher, and I'm sure they'll back me on this, need only a few seconds to grab your purse and run. Also, when you gas up the car and run inside the station to pay, remember to take your bag. Again, the purse snatcher has this crime down to a science and can grab and run with your bag, your identity, while you're in the station paying and if you're like me, making small talk. Got any other suggestions?
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