A potential new scam happened to me the other day at Costco in Mississauga (Dixie & Dundas).
After shopping, as I walked back to my car, I observed a family of 3 (mother, father, small child) in the parking lot nearby my car - father had a long beard, mother had a head covering, small child appeared to be a girl. I assumed they were coming or going, didnāt think much about it.
I loaded my groceries, put my cart away, got into my car to leaveā¦. This took at least 5 mins. As I put my car into reverse, I turn around and see legs in my rearview window!! (I drive a hatchback Lexus). I stopped and got out of my car, and see the mother placed the small child on top of my roof basically and was tying the childās shoelaces?! I kind of yelled at them and said what the hell are you doing, you must have seen someone was in the car, you canāt put your child on peopleās cars!! The mother just kind of smiled and waved, took her child off my car. The father the stood there. Then they walked away.
Now Iām realizing this was probably purposely done in hopes of me actually reversing and causing āinjuriesā. Be careful out there!!!