Lauryn Chandler
Stealing From Tourists
In Vancouver over the last couple of days, some people are dressing up like police officers, and stealing money from tourists. There have been about six reported cases on these incidents in two days. The fake officers are stopping tourists in this Canadian city and stealing their money by demanding for them to hand over their wallets and passports. The tourists state they gave back their wallets a few minutes after they confiscated it, but all of their money was gone. Some also said the fake police officers showed them their fake badges. The real police officers are being required to show photo identification. I believe that the people stealing the money from tourists should feel really bad for tricking them. The genuine police officers should be working hard to catch these criminals. The experiences of the tourists was most likely not near as good as it would have been if they did not get their money stolen. For anyone traveling in the future, be very careful around your surroundings in the foreign places you are staying in because anyone at any time can come along and take your belongings from you.
Wow. I can't believe that this is happening. Wouldn't it be so stressful if you were in a new and unknown place and you had your money taken?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. They should feel bad. First, it is illegal to impersonate and police officer and worse if you are doing it to take people's money.
I'm really glad these people were being investigated. That could make a family's travel experience really horrible. I just hope something like that never happens to me!
Keep up the good work :)