Push Pockets in
KL
I am sure you all have heard of 'pick pocket'.
Now there is a new trend, 'push pocket' .
A few days ago a new type of crime has surfaced in town. It goes
something like this:- Somebody slips a hand-phone into your pocket,
sometimes it could be just a wallet with an identity card and a few
Ringgit.
A few minutes later, the 'owner' comes up and confronts you, the
'thief '. He makes a big commotion that you stole his stuff.
You, caught unaware, are then pulled aside by the 'owner' for a
settlement you are intimidated and threatened that if you do not
pay up, the police will be brought in. If you pay up, this 'owner'
will lets you go. If not, the police are brought in.
Another strange thing is that, there always seems to be a 'witness'
to the your 'theft'.
I am told this often happens to foreigners at the Kuala Lumpur
International Airport (KLIA) or even at LRT trains. Given that
you're 'guilty until proven innocent' as far as the Malaysian
police are concerned, I understand some poor people are in jail for
these 'offences'.
At the KLIA, the 'owner' throws his hand-phone and wallet with the
few Ringgit notes into the luggage trolley of a just arrived
passenger. The drama unfolds a few minutes later. The real culprits
could eaily convince the Malaysian police to arrest the real victim
(if he has not paid up the 'settlement' demand).
This is another form of extortion operating in broad daylight. They
are disgusting criminals who will do anything to rob and steal. The
sickening part of the whole scenario is that unless you pay the
'quoted settlement' money, they will put you in real trouble by
calling the police.
The real culprit gets back his hand-phone and wallet but the real
victim (i.e. could be any one of us) is thrown into the police lock
up and charged in court.
So do be very careful, otherwise you may end up as a 'thief' as you
have no way to prove your innocence.
Pass it on...let more people be aware of such things around
them.
Geh Cheng Lok & Co.
Advocates & Solicitors
No. 20, King Street (Top Floor)
10200 Penang , Malaysia
Tel. No: 604-2617464
Fax No: 604-2611840
Okok...if it were to happen to me, I will promise to pay them
whatever they asked for. But I will need to ask them to wait, while
my friend to bring me the money.
Then when my friends arrived, I will ask them to beat, threaten,
terrorise those "push pockets" and blackmail those "push
pockets" with their naked pictures after asking them
to oil their body with THIS.
