tebop opened this issue on Apr 06, 2008 · 29 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 22 May 2008 at 1:53 PM
More likely: they made the mistake of robbing a store where a female was working. 
Actually, they probably just got too greedy: and robbed one store too many. Remember: this was years ago. Such a ploy probably wouldn't work today, as store security is more sophisticated than it was at one time. Also -- once a modus operandi becomes known, then the trick doesn't work like it used to. So the crooks have to think up a new trick.
BTW - it's a common ploy in cons to use attractive women as bait or as a distraction while a robbery or other activity goes on in the background. Even the 'good guys' use the same ploy -- police, FBI and other law enforcement agencies regularly use female agents to distract or to trap their targets.
IMO it's sleazy -- but I've also seen reports about private investigating agencies who hire their professional services out to women who want to determine whether or not their husbands are cheating on them. The agency employs one or more very attractive women whose job it is to come on to the men who are under investigation......to see if the allegedly cheating husbands will take the proffered bait. If he does, then the wife has something else to add to the divorce case in court. But it is sleazy, IMO -- not a job that most people would want their daughters to aspire to.
However, in each of these situations: the same well-known underlying principle -- and the reasons for it -- appertains. Even if someone doesn't find the first story recounted up above to be believable.
Personally: I can believe it.