Please be careful - Daylight Robbery

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from The New Sunday Times dated Sunday 9 December 2007 :-

JB moneychanger loses RM 500,000 in hold up

JOHOR BAHRU : A moneychanger,50, lost RM 500,000 in a robbery in Jalan Trus on Thursday.

In his police report, the man said he was taking the cash for distribution to his 3 branches in Jalan Trus, Jalan Ibrahim and Jalan Wong Ah Fook at 4.30 a.m. He did not have a security escort, but his assistant, 43, was driving in another car behind him.

A lorry cut him off, and a Honda CRV and a Proton Waja blocked him from behind. 3 men armed with axes and swords grabbed the cash and took off. The moneychanger substained a cut on the arm in the scuffle.

State Criminal Investigations Chief Senior Assistant Commissioner II Amer Awal said the robbers left the lorry and escaped in the Honda CRV, which was found abandoned in Ulu Tiram. The Proton Waja has not been found.

"We have the closed-circuit camera television recordings and we hope to identify the suspects".

Police said the lorry had been reported stolen in Tampoi, while the Honda CRV was stolen in Taiping. Both had false number plates.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[IntelDuoCore]

I'm very sad, as a Malaysian to say that our country security has rose again to a new level of robbery. My friend, happened just recently at Taman Pelangi JB, while he was having his lunch at one of the kopitiam with his wife along Jalan Kuning, a stranger wearing a cap and dark glasses just sat next to them although there are other vacant seats.
He then took order for a cup of kopi-0 to the waiter, then my friend asked if he'd known him. The stranger just replied that NOT ONLY he knows my friend, he also knows my friend lives, his children, where there study, go for tuition, activities, etc. While he is stating these facts, he pointed a gun towards my friend underneath the table.
Next the stranger gave my friend 2 options:
1- To hand over the car keys of my friend's new Toyota Camry
2- To reject 1st option and the stranger will open fire, plus, there will be no guarantee to the safety of my friend's family in the evening later.
Goes without saying, the car keys was handed to the stranger, and after the stanger finished his cup of coffee, he left with my friend's car.
A police report was lodged but bloody police said they will investigate this matter and asked them to go home.

The moral of this incident:
1. Do not buy the new Toyota Camry in Johor Bahru. If you insist, hire a police-motorcyclist escort at all times. If you can't afford one, go to option 2.
2. Fix canister cans filled with cyanide (available from hospitals) into your car. Once the immobiliser activates, the car shuts down everything and releases this gas substance into the car-cabin, effectively causing permanent brain and vision damage the robber. If you can't afford one, go to option 3.
3. Equip yourself with a pepper spray at all times (Use it ONLY if you are confident that the liquid dispersed is faster than the speed of a bullet).

[Red_Tirak1099]

Yes me know of a big towkay got factories in JB who always hired off duty or makan ular plainclothes policemen as bodyguards whenever he go in to inspect his factories. total 6 men 3 cars to for convoy.....NNKC machiam Sultan leh......

Another one story I heard is of a big time OKT with gangsters links go bank also kena robbed & beaten up....hahaha.....the heist was committed by those illegal indonesian immigrants......they dont give face who gangsters or what.....they onli recognize money.

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from The New Straits Times dated Wednesday 12 December 2007 :-

Motorcyclists grab RM 30,000 in JB

JOHOR BAHRU : 2 men on a motorcycle smashed the window of a car and escaped with an envelope containing RM 30,000 placed on the front passenger seat of the vehicle near Merlin Tower yesterday.

The owner of the vehicle, a woman in her 40s, had withdrawn the cash earlier and had parked the car to run an errand when the 2 men rode up in the 10.30 a.m. incident.

She suffered minor injuries when she struggled with the robber for the envelope.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[topcook1]

Originally Posted by KatoeyLover69

Report from The New Straits Times dated Wednesday 12 December 2007 :-

Motorcyclists grab RM 30,000 in JB

JOHOR BAHRU : 2 men on a motorcycle smashed the window of a car and escaped with an envelope containing RM 30,000 placed on the front passenger seat of the vehicle near Merlin Tower yesterday.

The owner of the vehicle, a woman in her 40s, had withdrawn the cash earlier and had parked the car to run an errand when the 2 men rode up in the 10.30 a.m. incident.

She suffered minor injuries when she struggled with the robber for the envelope.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

Really very bad indeed...Hope the all the robbers to be caught otherwise the reputation of JB is going to be tarnish.

[jedycity]

Originally Posted by topcook1

Really very bad indeed...Hope the all the robbers to be caught otherwise the reputation of JB is going to be tarnish.

Bro topcook1,
Actual fact, JB reputation have already tarnish. It just that whether how to rebuild it.

Originally Posted by jedycity

Bro topcook1,
Actual fact, JB reputation have already tarnish. It just that whether how to rebuild it.

Its not an easy task to rebuild it.

[ProfessorOokami]

Originally Posted by KatoeyLover69

Report from The New Straits Times dated Wednesday 12 December 2007 :-

Motorcyclists grab RM 30,000 in JB

JOHOR BAHRU : 2 men on a motorcycle smashed the window of a car and escaped with an envelope containing RM 30,000 placed on the front passenger seat of the vehicle near Merlin Tower yesterday.

The owner of the vehicle, a woman in her 40s, had withdrawn the cash earlier and had parked the car to run an errand when the 2 men rode up in the 10.30 a.m. incident.

She suffered minor injuries when she struggled with the robber for the envelope.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

Many a time, those who withdraw large sums of money from the bank did invite "opportunist" robberies Most of them related a need to pay cash to workers [especially construction workers] who resisted the convenienec and safety of having their salaries banked in. I know of one lady who withdrew MYR 20,000 to pay off a second-hand car and was robbed the moments she stepped into her car with the cash stashed away in her handbag! Why was a simple bank draft not used? or just bank in or transfer the money to the seller will do. The whole process attracted highe risk....she went to get the cash .....transport the cash to the seller....pay the seller....seller will go back to the bank to cash in....all risky situations...why take such risk or being exposed ot such risks??? beats me...

[Red_Tirak1099]

Originally Posted by ProfessorOokami

...why take such risk or being exposed ot such risks??? beats me...

Everyone got the "It can't happen to me" syndrome.....very much like the bros who bonk WLs raw & think they wont contract STDs/HIV......bad things all say CHOY! but near miracles like kena Toto or Big Sweep all believe will happen to them

[sunhuan-con]

I guess most of the robbers are roaming around banks.Or else they have some insiders working in the bank.

[Orgasmic]

Originally Posted by sunhuan-con

I guess most of the robbers are roaming around banks.Or else they have some insiders working in the bank.

Now the robbers will climb into your house and steal things... and in petrol stations if u are a singaporean, the chances of u being robbed is almost 10% already. I havent heard of any regular who patronised JB and never encounter crimes.

[Glamorous]

I have always been to Malaysia regularly, i don't think its still unsafe to travel to malaysia.

just remember, take precaution. Try not to be alone...

[KatoeyLover69]

Originally Posted by Orgasmic

Now the robbers will climb into your house and steal things... and in petrol stations if u are a singaporean, the chances of u being robbed is almost 10% already. I havent heard of any regular who patronised JB and never encounter crimes.

My question is: Why is it that the number of S'poreans coming to JB/Johor/Malaysia keep increasing month after after month and year after year ???

[topcook1]

Originally Posted by KatoeyLover69

My question is: Why is it that the number of S'poreans coming to JB/Johor/Malaysia keep increasing month after after month and year after year ???

JB cost of living is much cheaper..Petrol is 0.83 SGD per lites, Milk powder 50 per cent cheaper , ciggrattes 3 times cheaper and many other more last but not least bonking is about 2 times cheaper.Is the same reasons why Malaysian likes to get into Southern Thailand since there is an insurgency there.

[surbana]

Originally Posted by topcook1

JB cost of living is much cheaper..Petrol is 0.83 SGD per lites, Milk powder 50 per cent cheaper , ciggrattes 3 times cheaper and many other more last but not least bonking is about 2 times cheaper.Is the same reasons why Malaysian likes to get into Southern Thailand since there is an insurgency there.

Southern Thailand is much more dangerous than JB. Almost everyday bombing and execution there.