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Begin forwarded message:
From: Indarti Indarti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Juni 2008 8:40:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [aminsinggih] Fwd: Re: Beware of thieves syndicate in Senayan City /
Malls
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Everyone,
This happened to a friend of mine...as
she said be careful and not a victim
to these people out there. As prices of everything go up, these type of
incidents may increase!
Regards,
Claudine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:30 PM
Subject: Beware of thieves syndicate in Senayan City / Malls
> To: Lady Friends in Jakarta,
>
> I'm writing this note to alert you and please pass this info on to your
> friends. (I've sent out SMS and put this on my Facebook profile as well so
> apologies if this is coming to you a 2nd or 3rd time.)
>
> My bag almost got stolen today while I was having tea with a friend in
> Cream & Fudge Factory in Senayan City (yes, right in the middle of
> the basement with a lot of people and security all around). It's a
> group of thieves from a syndicate based in Pasar Senen
(surprise,
> surprise). Fifteen minutes after this happened to me, they hit another
> woman sitting in Coffee Bean just across. But she was not so lucky.
> They got her bag.
>
> These thieves are very fast and organised. They obviously chose to hit
> ladies who are sitting in cafes, cos we tend to be more relaxed and
> less alert, and to leave our bags on the chairs/seat. They use
> middle-aged women (not particularly well-dressed but not shabby either)
> to do the job, and they have guys waiting around, so the women will
> pass the bag to the guys after they take it and make their getaway.
>
> This is what happened: My friend and I were both absorbed in our own
> stuff; I had my bag open on the seat next to me (yes, my own fault).
> The first woman came up to us and ask for the time (but very rudely).
> My friend ignored her but I felt bad so I answered. That was 3:45
pm.
>
> My friend later told me while I was looking at my watch the woman was
> looking at our stuff. Without even bothering to say thank you, she
> walked off and sat down at a table diagonally across from us, and she
> faced my direction and kept staring at me. At that point I felt it was
> really odd cos she didn't order any food or drinks. Of course on
> hindsight she was the scout sent to identify the target (i.e. me) and
> gave the signal to her team by talking to me and facing me when she sat
> down.
>
> Barely a few minutes after that, I saw out of the corner of my eye, my
> bag being moved from the seat next to me. I jumped up, turned around
> and saw a woman seated behind me, reaching her hand into my bag. I then
> shouted at her and asked: "Why is your hand in my bag?" At that point
> she panicked cos everyone was looking. I grabbed my bag and checked
> that
everything was still intact. She tried to get out of it by saying,
> "No, no I didn't touch your bag, maybe the chair moved it."
>
> There was no table behind me. The closest table was diagonally behind
> me, so this woman had pulled her chair a long way to sit right behind
> me. At this point, I saw a third woman standing nearby, obviously
> another accomplice. She took out her mobile phone and started calling
> (obviously to ask for instructions or to alert someone the job was
> botched).
>
> I asked my friend to observe if they are going to buy anything. They
> pretended to order some drinks from the cashier. I then decided to
> alert the staff and security. The minute I stood up and started walking
> to the counter, they ran. The staff told me there was also a guy with
> them. One of the male staff gave chase and security was called. I gave
> the description of the 3 women to
security.
>
> At about 4:05, while I was still speaking with the security, I saw a
> woman walking out from Coffee Bean, which was just a few feet away from
> where I was, looking very lost and upset. I heard her say "my bag is
> lost." So I went up to her and ask her what happened. It was the same
> syndicate and they used the same ruse (i.e. asking her for the time to
> distract her).
>
> Similarly, it was a middle-aged woman who approached her. And a guy was
> standing nearby. Based on our descriptions and with the staff from
> Cream and Fudge and Coffee Bean helping to look, the security caught
> the woman who stole the bag from Coffee Bean and the one who tried to
> steal mine, just as they were about to board a taxi. The other
> accomplices were not caught.
>
> So then this is the best part of the story. We went to the security
> office. The thieves were questioned
and beaten right in front of me and
> the lady who lost her bag. The woman who tried to steal from me even
> tried to threaten me when I identified her. I spent two hours there
> writing a long statement etc. cos without my collaboration, the lady
> who lost her bag didn't have much of a case. Guess what? The case never
> went to the police. The thieves caved and said they would return the
> stolen bag. I was hopping mad of course. Yes, they have to return the
> bag, but why should they get away?
>
> So here's the explanation: If we went to the police, the gangsters
> would show up and pay off the police to release the two women (who were
> after all just the sacrificial lambs used to do the dirty job and risk
> getting caught). If they are really bad gangsters, then they would also
> pay the police to release my info and the victim's info, and then they
> would come and threaten
us.
>
> So according to this so-called reasoning: if the thieves return the
> bag, at least the lady got her stuff back. So we should let it go. And
> no harm would come to anyone, including the security guys who caught
> the thieves.
>
> NO HARM??!!
>
> If we go to the police, we would waste a lot of time, and money, and the
> bag will never come back.
>
> Brilliant, isn't it?
>
> SO that's why I am writing this note, and some of you already got my sms.
> After I sent out the sms, two friends replied that this happened to them
> in Plaza Senayan.
>
> When I left the security office, one of the thieves had gone off to get
> the bag for the victim. I hope she got her bag back. But what it means
> is this gang is free to do it again...maybe to one of you. And again,
> and again, cos they know for sure nothing is going to happen to any of
>
them, even if they get caught.
>
> So tell this story to all your friends and warn them about this bunch
> of thugs. It is WRONG WRONG WRONG that they should be allowed to get
> away and do it again. But in a place where the law and system doesn't
> work and is not going to protect innocent people, we can only protect
> ourselves and one another.
>
> If anyone knows where to buy mace, please tell me. The next time
> someone tried to steal from me or attack me or my kids, I will mace
> them, and use this trick I learnt in my teens: always carry your keys
> in your hand, place the longest key in between your index and middle
> finger, sticking upwards. If anyone attacks you, stick it right into
> his/her eyeball. If it's a guy, knee his groin and then run and yell
> for help.
>
> I am SO NOT going to be a victim. And neither should you.
>
>
>
>
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