At around 9.00pm on 1st August my aunt and cousin returned home from a short drive to Petaling Gardens. No one else was home at that time.
Cousin opened the front door and entered the house and aunt was about to follow suite. Just then a Waja pulled up slowly in front of the house. The auto-gate had closed by then. A young Indian girl got out of the car and asked if she was in SS4. My aunt moved towards the gate to inform the girl that she was in the wrong area.
Three young Indian boys (late teens to early twenties), neither of them big sized or intimidating, rushed out of the car and sprung over the gate. They ran toward my aunt. My cousin who was at the front door tried to pull my aunt back in so that she could shut the door.
The robbers got to my aunt first and pulled her out. By this time my aunt was shouting for help and one of the robbers slashed at her with a parang to keep her quiet. Seeing this my cousin who was in the house told them that they could have her handbag if they left.
She then handed her handbag over to them. They snatched her necklace and earrings. As they were leaving one of them noticed my aunts necklace and came back to snatch that and her earrings too.
My aunt who had continued to shout for help had managed to alert the neighbours.
The robbers then clambered back over the gate and took off. In their haste they dropped some of the items they had snatched earlier.
Loss was minimal. A couple of earrings and 2/3 of a chain and my cousin's handbag that contained both her and my aunt's mobile. She had only small change in her purse since they had only gone out to collect something from a friend nearby.
Aunt required a few stitches to her forehead and has fractured one of her fingers.
Since it was a robbery my aunt had to go to UH. She arrived there at 9.40pm and the Emergency Unit of UH, in the true spirit of rakyat didahulukan pencapain diutamakan, finally finished treating her only at 12.45am
Fortunately the pondok police at the Trauma & Emergency wing was manned at that time. The cop there took 45min to take down my cousin's statement. Like most cops he was very polite and accommodating but just very very slow.
The IO arrived around 11.30pm and proceeded to interview both the victims. He basically rewrote what was in the earlier report. That took another 45min. The good thing was that he was helping us kill time whilst waiting for my aunt to get her stitches and x-ray done.
He then told us he needed to take photos of the crime scene and that we could only clean the house (since it was a head injury there were blood drops everywhere) after he had inspected the crime scene. As he did not know where section 4 was nor the location of Assunta Hospital, I told him to just meet me out front and to follow my car home.
Once there I left him and my uncle at home and when back to the hospital.
When we all finally returned home at 1.00 am the IO was still waiting for his photographer to arrive. The photographer (with lights flashing) finally arrived at 1.40am (he too must not have known where sec4 was).
The IO was done soon after, apologized for all our troubles, and before he left.consoled the victims by telling them that they were lucky and that there was nothing they could or should have done differently.
Whilst at the hospital, another Indian couple recounted how their mother got robbed last week. An Indian guy got down from a Mercedes with a big hamper. When their mother came out, the guy pretended he was on the phone talking to someone and motioned that he had to hand over the hamper. When the mother opened the gate the rest of the guys in the car rushed out.
So, be carefull of annays bearing gifts or thangachis asking questions.
These are the known reported cases, what about those considered minor, petty or 'fortunate brush with criminals but got away reasonably safe with minimum losses'?
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