Thank God your daughter got away unscathed. That was guts and quick thinking on her part.
When I was in my twenties, I was out for a long walk one evening, and a truck screeched up to me, stopped, and a crazy-looking guy yelled, “GET IN.” I froze, but then a car came along, and he took off. I’ll never forget that.
Nowadays, when I’m heading across a parking lot toward my car, I try to look like a complete in-control b*tch, and I stay aware of footsteps behind me, and the cars parked next to me.
Boy, you just never get over that kind of thing. I am already a b$&)( so I don’t have to act. ROFL. Here is the amazing thing about my DILS kidnapping. Just a week prior, I had read the book MINDHUNTER, by the FBI profiler, John Douglas. It had all kinds of true events, stories and tips. We were out to dinner and I was talking about the book. One of the tips was if someone would get in your car, be prepared to die right out in public. Never, never go willingly, scream, wreck, do whatever it takes.
After she raced the car to the front of the store and started screaming for help, a cart boy ran to her car and pulled her out. The thug then pulled a gun on the boy and took off in the car. Helicopters, police were chasing him on the freeway when he wrecked her car. He jumped out and hid. The police were out of their cars and he sneaked into a patrol car and took off. He eventually wrecked it also and was injured enough that he was immobile and arrested. Get this......for carjacking.