GRAB ME A BAG !!!

My how we laugh at the story of the glam raiders, who smash and grab sackfulls of what is known as very expensive arm candy - and I am not talking candy canes here, but mind bogglingly priced handbags, designed by some poor men and women with delusions of competence. This gives a new meaning to the expression 'Bag Man' and has nothing to do with Jeffrey Archer.

Apparently, these clever and daring thieves bone up on their market research on ebay and then drive their scooters into the appropriate shop windows and zoom off with their swag, perhaps in a designer suitcase.

The shop owners, understandably distressed cry, 'oh, they must have been stolen to order, there is a waiting list for those'. I always thought waiting lists were for operations - replacements hips, livers, kidneys, and hearts, - not handbags.

Glance over this price list if you will.
The Stam - named after a model Jessica Stam (who she?) £760
The Lautner - £555
The Bernie - £535
and these are the cheapies. Designer bags can go for as much as £15,000 I kid you not.

Don't you think that is a bit obscene for a few bits of leather, a length of lavatory chain from your nearest builders' merchants and a few curtain rings from John Lewis?

So who are buying these bags? Obviously they have too much money. I don't see anything wrong in using a nice durable plastic carrier bag from Woolworths, or perhaps a Marks and Spencer one for evenings and maybe for very special occasions, a Selfridges yellow one. Much cheaper and easy to ring the changes.

I await news of the latest designer bag theft. Medical supply stores know they are safe displaying designer colostomy bags in their windows - you can never find a pair of shoes that match!!