Woman shows off new car on social media, gets hijacked the same day
This is not the way she saw the day she finally got her
hands on her new car play out.
It’s important to celebrate even the smallest achievements in our lives and getting a new car is certainly a moment to celebrate. However, sometimes showing off on social media comes with consequences. This is a lesson one woman learned the hard way after she showed off her new set of wheels on Twitter, tipping off alleged thieves who hijacked her on the very same day.
The well-known social media commentator and parody account @AdvoBarryRoux shared screenshots of a woman who posts under the handle @Nadatywabi sharing images of herself picking up her brand-new car. It then appears alleged thieves tracked down the woman and hijacked her outside of her mother’s house.
South Africa is a crime scene pic.twitter.com/HjCsVvutAS
— Man’s NOT Barry Roux (@AdvoBarryRoux) April 25, 2021
Luckily, the woman confirms that the car was recovered shortly after the incident. After the ordeal, the woman deleted the images from her Twitter account and admits that she learned a hard lesson about what she chooses to share on the app.
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The incident has caused others to think about the content they put out on the app, with one person saying: "One thing I can tell you guys, yall think on Twitter is only good people we socialize with. Our enemies are also on this App. Be careful what you tweet cause not everyone is happy for you. I hope she will recover and get her bakkie back."
Another added: "Stop sharing your life on social media guys. You tell people where you are, who you with at what time and what you driving. Might as well share your pin number."
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A third suggested that dealers are often in cahoots with criminals and detailed his own experience, saying: “The dealerships are in with criminals once you buy they sent them to your place to come and retrieve it, through hijacking it happened to my brother three years ago. He had purchased a Merc from Springs & hardly 3hrs he was pointed with a guy and car taken. We went back to the [dealership] and asked the sales person if the car had tracker, to our surprise we were informed that it doesn’t but when were we about to leave a sales lady who I believe wasn’t part of the group of males that are involved in this scam told us the car.”
Be careful out there, KZN...
Image courtesy: Twitter