Carjacked and Abducted
CARJACKED AND ABDUCTED AT MAIN ROAD, TAMAN BUKIT PRIMA 9 FEBRUARY 2012,
8.52 PM (incident partially captured by CCTV)
My name is Sally, wife to Mr Tan and mother to Jasmine. Moving into Bukit Prima fulfilled our life’s desire to live in a quiet, healthy and peaceful environment with a caring neighbourhood.
My name is Sally, wife to Mr Tan and mother to Jasmine. Moving into Bukit Prima fulfilled our life’s desire to live in a quiet, healthy and peaceful environment with a caring neighbourhood.
On the night of 9 February 2012, a horrific, life-threatening incident befell me which I know will impact my view of life for a long time to come.
I want to share my experience with you, my fellow neighbours, to create awareness and hopefully give you enough reason to support our Bukit Prima Residents Committee in their tireless effort to improve the safety of our neighbourhood.
At 8.52 PM, as I turned into our main entrance road, having dropped off Jasmine at her tuition centre, and cruised down slope to navigate across the road bump, I felt my car being bumped from behind.
Against my first instinct to just forget the incident, I looked into my rear mirror and saw the car behind me signaling to move to the side. My thoughts then shifted to that perhaps it’s one of residents as we were
already within the neighbourhood and this is a closed road. With a mixture of slight annoyance, curiosity and acknowledging what I thought was a kind gesture on the part of the car driver to stop, I stopped and even came out of my car.
THAT WAS THE MOST NAÏVE, STUPID, AND REGRETFUL ACTION I HAVE EVER MADE WHICH WILL STICK IN MY MEMORY FOR LIFE.
A burly Indian man emerged from their driver’s seat and moved towards me and another Indian man put his head out of the co-driver’s seat, still politely but firmly telling his friend to settle?.
Before I could react in any way, the big man got into my car driver seat, a split second scuffle followed (my memory blurred out a bit here) and I found myself being shoved into the back seat as I screamed my lungs out.
I mustered all my strength to fight off the man, still screaming as the car screeched into moving gear. Very quickly I was overpowered, as my car was driven away, with me pinned down to the floor in the back seat, weakened both from the struggle and the effects of the taser gun the man used on me.
I realized then that it was futile to fight back. I begged them to let me out and take the car. My abduction lasted about 1 hour, during which time I was threatened with a parang to give them my ATM card, PIN Number and IC number. At one point, I was gagged and tied up, as they stopped at what appeared to be a meeting point.
I heard many men shouting at each other, all in Tamil, I guessed about 4 to 6 men altogether. I was then dragged out of my car into another car. Having lost my glasses and weakened and terrified to my wits end, I simply submitted to all their demands. I was driven around again, being asked repeatedly for my ATM Pin and IC number with some sort of assurance that they would let me go after they get the money.
My life hung on the balance for the next half hour (it felt like forever) as the parang was constantly in my face and I was warned of the consequences should the money failed to dispense from the ATM machine. Finally the phone call came, I was given back my purse with RM20 for taxi fare, and got pushed out into at the dark street.
Dazed but grateful for my life I finally got help from a kind, young Chinese man at nearby shop that I stumbled into. The rest is history.
Because I am fortunate enough to live to tell my story, I want to share my experience with the sincere hope that you will take away THREE KEY MESSAGES.
Before I could react in any way, the big man got into my car driver seat, a split second scuffle followed (my memory blurred out a bit here) and I found myself being shoved into the back seat as I screamed my lungs out.
I mustered all my strength to fight off the man, still screaming as the car screeched into moving gear. Very quickly I was overpowered, as my car was driven away, with me pinned down to the floor in the back seat, weakened both from the struggle and the effects of the taser gun the man used on me.
I realized then that it was futile to fight back. I begged them to let me out and take the car. My abduction lasted about 1 hour, during which time I was threatened with a parang to give them my ATM card, PIN Number and IC number. At one point, I was gagged and tied up, as they stopped at what appeared to be a meeting point.
I heard many men shouting at each other, all in Tamil, I guessed about 4 to 6 men altogether. I was then dragged out of my car into another car. Having lost my glasses and weakened and terrified to my wits end, I simply submitted to all their demands. I was driven around again, being asked repeatedly for my ATM Pin and IC number with some sort of assurance that they would let me go after they get the money.
My life hung on the balance for the next half hour (it felt like forever) as the parang was constantly in my face and I was warned of the consequences should the money failed to dispense from the ATM machine. Finally the phone call came, I was given back my purse with RM20 for taxi fare, and got pushed out into at the dark street.
Dazed but grateful for my life I finally got help from a kind, young Chinese man at nearby shop that I stumbled into. The rest is history.
Because I am fortunate enough to live to tell my story, I want to share my experience with the sincere hope that you will take away THREE KEY MESSAGES.
THE POLICE TOLD ME THAT CARJACK CRIMES ARE INCREASING AT AN ALARMING RATE. THE GANGS TEND TO TARGET SINGLE WOMEN OR OLDISH MEN DRIVING HIGH END CARS.
MESSAGE 1
IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, NEVER EVER STOP, LEAST OF ALL, GET OUT OF YOUR CAR, WHEN YOU ARE KNOCKED FROM BEHIND. JUST DRIVE AS FAST AS YOU CAN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR GUARDHOUSE OR ANYWHARE WHERE THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE. REMEMBER, NEVER GET OUT OF YOUR CAR.
MESSAGE 1
IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, NEVER EVER STOP, LEAST OF ALL, GET OUT OF YOUR CAR, WHEN YOU ARE KNOCKED FROM BEHIND. JUST DRIVE AS FAST AS YOU CAN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR GUARDHOUSE OR ANYWHARE WHERE THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE. REMEMBER, NEVER GET OUT OF YOUR CAR.
MESSAGE 2
IF YOU WITNESS ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, PLEASE DO CALL 999 AND GIVE THEM THE LOCATION OF THE INCIDENT.
THE COMMITTEE INTENDS TO BUILD A GAURDHOUSE AT OUR MAIN ENTRANCE ROAD FOR BETTER SECURITY. THERE HAS BEEN CRIME RELATED INCIDENTS BEFORE, EVEN IF MY EXPERIENCE IS THE WORST.
MESSAGE 3
I URGE ALL RESIDENTS OF BUKIT PRIMA TO GIVE OUR UNDIVIDED SUPPORT TO THE COMMITTEE FOR THIS AND ANY OTHER SECURITY PROJECTS THAT THEY PLAN ON TAKING ON. YOUR FAMILY’S SECURITY AND SAFETY IS PRICELESS.THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR READING THIS, AND BETTER STILL, FOR ACTING TO SUPPORT THE COMMITTEE AND OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD.
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