Old ConMan

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Snatch Theft

I hate reading about snatch theft cases in news. It's very sad that we felt so insecure nowadays. These incidents always left a deep scar on the victims. They are traumatised badly, and often the victims are woman and children. These people are the one that's fragile in nature, yet because of that they are often taken advantage of.

The most recent snatch cases involve a 37 year old clerk in Johor Bahru, which has died after two days in a coma at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital after being a victim of a snatch theft last Saturday. She was only 37, a mother of two young children and a wife. Her death was totally senseless. How much $ would there be in the handbag? How about her children and husband? The children have to suffer growing up under an unbalanced family.

Her husband was more angry than sad. This is not an ordinary snatch theft case. And incident like this doesn't only happenned once. In fact, the last snatch theft case happened that also cause the death of a victim had just happened last month in Kuala Lumpur to a clerk. This clerk, if my memory doesn't failed me, had been the victim of 4 snatch theft cases during her last ten years (the 4th caused her death). She's often left with serious physical injury each time the incident occured. Her family members said that she was shattered by each cases, making her a very timid and scared woman. She was so scared that she only goes out to and from work (and each time walk hurriedly), whereas most of her time was spent staying at home. Imagine that she had to live under such condition, spending most of her time hole-up at home because of afraid being snatch again.

I throughoutly despised those that take advantage of the victim's weakness (in this scenario, it is woman and children). These theft are despicable, which have let little greed to overcome their sense. This got to do with education effectively promoting right moral values. Forget about the boring Morale subject in schools, which most of the time only served as exam. We should try instill more positive value using channel that gains huge public interest, for example, through movies. I always had the dream of producing movies that instill positive value (don't laugh at me) by using roles that portray people which are closes to us (like parents, siblings etc). We are always sad when something bad happens to the people closes to us. I believe this is also the same with the criminals. They too have their close ones. If they see that the things they do can bring such a disastrous consequence, they might have second thoughts whenever they wanted to do it.

It's sad to see this... what else can we do? :(

Clerk succumbs to injury suffered during snatch theft

Get rid of the snatch theft scourge

2 Comments:

  • nowadays everyone n anyone can be a potential victim and theif.. ever heard of an 80-year-old lady being raped and a 3-year-old child was raped to death? How sad right..

    By Blogger jelly, at June 16, 2004 at 3:53 AM  

  • Yeah lor, I got this info thru my mum. She called me and insist that I dont bring any handbag when going out! :O And I said ok, but I think it is impossible. How to stuffs my hp, purse, tissues, lipbalm, keys in a small lady slack pocket! My bag had been snatched once, around two years back in PJ. Indeed it is really a bad experience. I just stood there, not believeing and couldnt comprehend what took place. And I was very very upset. Just be extra careful now lor..

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 18, 2004 at 12:56 AM  

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