BMW Stolen and Recovered in Alor Star

[Mandrake]

Lets have some good news in this forum instead, this guy got his BMW back but lost a 100K in cash and posessions. I guess this shows the effectiveness of tracking alarms like Captor and V.guard.

Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,97792,00.html?

THE robbers got away with some RM70,000 ($31,675) in cash after robbing a 29-year-old bachelor at his Simpang Empat home in Alor Star yesterday.

But they didn't get far with his BMW 5-series, reported The New Straits Times.

The car was outfitted with a global positioning system (GPS) and the bachelor called the security company in Kuala Lumpur after the masked men drove off in his car.

The company ran a trace, located the vehicle and disabled its engine by remote.

The three robbers, believed to be in their 30s and 40s, were forced to abandon the car at Taman Sri Arowana.

At 6.55am, about five hours after the robbery, the police found the car in Butterworth with its original licence plate replaced.

Cash totalling RM60,000, a laptop and the victim's international passport were missing.

The robbers, who were armed, had stormed into the man's house as he returned from a late teh tarik session with friends.

They took RM10,000 in cash and RM7,000 in jewellery from the home, which the bachelor shares with his parents.

 

[Joeker]

THe owner is quite lucky the thieves who robbed him were not hi tech enough.

If this were to happen in KL, I doubt the car would be recovered as KL thieves are rather "advance" and hi-tech.

Thats why we read in papers about luxury cars even with top end security systems/devices are stolen/hijacked regularly in KL. Most were never recovered.

 

[ambayah]

Lesson: Long teh tarik sessions are dangerous.

 

[acbc]

Be low profile... if u r loaded... just drive a cheap, crappy looking car for TT n shopping. This is one tactic used by my client. He is loaded but after a close encounter with a bunch of robbers, he stopped driving flashy cars (reserved for weekends) and expensive clothes (only buys from 'pasar malam').

He now goes to work in a cheap, poorly-maintained car (couldn't be bothered to wash or service properly) wearing normal every day clothes (no more branded). Now that's low profile.

 

[wannabe]

" Cash totalling RM60,000, a laptop and the victim's international passport were missing.

The robbers, who were armed, had stormed into the man's house as he returned from a late teh tarik session with friends.

They took RM10,000 in cash and RM7,000 in jewellery from the home, which the bachelor shares with his parents. "

1st sentence said cash total 60k then last sentence said cash 10k n 7 k jewellery. So wat happened to the rest ?? :p

 

[Tohsan]

Be low profile... if u r loaded... just drive a cheap, crappy looking car for TT n shopping. This is one tactic used by my client. He is loaded but after a close encounter with a bunch of robbers, he stopped driving flashy cars (reserved for weekends) and expensive clothes (only buys from 'pasar malam').

He now goes to work in a cheap, poorly-maintained car (couldn't be bothered to wash or service properly) wearing normal every day clothes (no more branded). Now that's low profile.

my grandfather friends go to work by bicycle n his shirt n pant all make in china RM10 for 3 pieces bought 20 years back, no one suspect he is multi-millionaires oni his neighbour know, now thats really low profile