Posted on 01/30/2022 6:39:06 AM PST by TigerClaws
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— We’ve all seen cars with those “Baby On Board” stickers, but now a local woman has come out with a new version to bring awareness to carjackings that read: “Don’t Carjack me, Kids Inside.”
Carjacking after carjacking is alarming to everyone in New Orleans especially parents like Gabriela Barnetzer, a mother of four kids.
“It would be extremely terrifying. My brain has gone what would I do? Literally to get my kids in and out of their car seats takes me a long time and I can’t imagine having to do that in a carjacking situation with guns pointed at us,” she said.
Shocked by all the carjackings and not wanting to stay silent, Gabriela created these car magnets.
“They say, Don’t Carjack me, kids inside, the craziness of what’s actually going on, having to put that on a magnet, the magnitude of this. I don’t know if it would change anyone’s mind, but I’m letting them know there are kids inside,” she said.
Now the magnets are sending a powerful message to not only carjackers, but to the community that something must change.
“I’m not in a position of power. I’m not a politician, just a mom. I feel the issue is much greater than just arresting kids and throwing them in jail,” she said.
Gabriela initially made 10 magnets for her and her friends, but others reached out asking for some, so she’s printing more and selling them.
“It is either make a magnet or stay silent. I just felt like I had to do something. If even one kid has to stop and say, this is not what I want to do,” she said.
Gabriela will be selling these magnets for ten dollars. Reach out to her on social media if you’d like one. You can find her on Instagram.
Her profits will go to helping kids in underserved neighborhoods in hopes of stopping the cycle of kids getting into a life of crime.
“Car insured by Smith and Wesson.”
5.56mm
You can’t plead or reason with a rabid animal.
Oh yeah, that will work for sure. /sarcasm
It’s like having a sign in your front yard “please don’t break in here! We have a TON of valuable things!!!”
You toucha my car, I breaka you face.
I’d like to have one that says “Cut off my catalytic converter. I will cut off your nutts”.
“Gun on board, make my day”
It would have been more frightening if it read “Don’t car jack me, kids with guns inside”.
Sometimes it’s better to just surprise the bad guys.
As long as people want to live like animals, they will.
Get the sticker. But get a .357 too.
liberal on board, choose to carjack a Republican instead!
Car magnet = Attention Cartel. More product for you to traffic.
"My neighbors all have much better stuff!"
(What percentage of carjackers would understand?)
Neat idea, presupposin’ the thugs are literate. And, o yeah, have one scruple in the fiber of their felonious souls.
By Robert BlockStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Jan. 11, 1999 12:01 am ET JOHANNESBURG, South Africa --
Ulf Gunther never leaves his driveway without stashing a bottle of brandy laced with cyanide in his glove compartment, just in case he runs into the odd hijacker. It's what he calls his "small solution" to the scourge of violent car theft in South Africa.
"If hijackers get my car, they'll go through the glove box, find the bottle and maybe drink it. They won't get very far then," snickers the 56-year-old chemical engineer. "I know it's probably illegal, but so is thieving and carjacking."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB91601019351200500
"And they're anti-gun, too!"
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