A Well Prepared Robbery or Not, It’s Only the Thief Herself and God Know
Posted by: pinkygreen on: August 21, 2009
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While I was working at my office yesterday, I had a chance to chat with a friend via FB chat on my mobile. Actually she’s not directly my friend, but I became to know her because she’s a friend of my boarding house’s friend, so, indirectly she’s become my friend, too.
What’s so special about her? Well, I feel very sorry for her for what happened to her last week. She’s just got robbed by a thief pretended to be a new tenant at her boarding house but the fact’s she’s a burglar. Here’s the detail story as my friend told me via the FB chat.
Last weekend was a long weekend for us in Indonesia (but not for mine, cause I still have to work as my job as a fraud analyst requires me to work also on weekend and on national holyday) as on Monday, Aug 17 was our Independence Day. So, for ‘ordinary’ people including my friends they had 3 days in a row-holyday. So, she was not at her boarding house but somewhere outside enjoying the long weekend.
As she got home, she was shocked as she couldn’t find her room’s key she kept in a ‘secure’ place where only her and her best friend knew the secret place. The reason why she’s doing it because her best friend used to watch TV in her room as her friend doesn’t have one in her room. She has done it for years and nothing bad happened until last week.
She contacted the owner of the boarding house asking for the duplicate key. And she became more shocked when she found her room was so messy. Things were everywhere, and her heart was almost stopped breathing when she saw her closet was opened. All her precious things; jewelleries and branded cloth were gone, poor my friend. And when the owner opened the room rented by the new tenant, she only found an empty room. And she also took all the keys away; the key of her rented, room, the key of my friend’s room, and the key of the entrance door.
My friend kept wondering. How could the robber know where she kept the key of her closet? It seemed she’d learned the situation of the boarding house and especially the situation of my friend’s room before; maybe at that time when every tenant of the boarding house was outside last Saturday. How could she?
I try to learn the motive of the robbery. Was it really well prepared burglary or it happened only because there was a chance to do it; as she found out my friend’s room key. But according to my friend, it’s a well arranged as she knew where she could find her closet’s key and she was eager to expend extra money first as the rented room fee. A well managed mugging or not, it’s only the thief and God know. The lesson for us, we should be more careful next time; for my friend, never left the key anymore, keep it or take it wherever you go and if you have to leave your room, no matter what, even if you only want to go to a bathroom and to be more careful with a stranger or new tenant in your boarding house or wherever you live in.
