So just a few days ago during lunch time I was waiting for someone by the road side in Uptown and doing some stuff with my iPhone. Suddenly I felt my phone get pulled away from my hand and when I looked up I saw a guy on a motorbike who came from the opposite direction had snatched my phone from my hand and rode away. He had his back number plate covered and he casually just rode away. Didn’t even look like he was in a rush. Right opposite from where I was standing were a few guys buying food at a food truck. The food truck owner kept telling me repeatedly that he had saw the bike coming but when I asked him why didn’t he warn me then he had nothing to say.
Oh well I just shrugged the whole incident off. Just a cost of living in Malaysia, getting stuff stolen every now and then. At least I wasn’t hurt. So I just suspended my line then went to buy a new phone. I didn’t even bother making a police report because I’ve made a police report before many years ago when a reckless driver nearly ran me down in Sunway. I had the car model and number plate but I wasn’t aware of any action taken after that. Plus I figured our cops probably had other more serious crime to solve.
In the afternoon I was at Maxis getting a new sim card and I asked the girl at the counter how many people see her every day to report stolen or snatched phones.
She said about 20 a day. I said “No la it can’t be!!! PM say our street crime has dropped!!!”. She giggled. So think about it, if one Maxis center had 20 a day, how many phones do you think are snatched in Klang Valley every day? It’s like a whole syndicate going on.
I think KL needs Batman or Spider Man or some superhero vigilante to help with our crime. Do we have any young good looking super hero type who inherited billions from their Dad and spends that money buying crime fighting tools and a suit?
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space