The date was 29th December 2010 and it was around 10 or so pm. My brother drove his car back to his house in Seremban after settling his accounts for the night and wanted to settle in for the night with his cute one year old boy and his wife who were waiting for him at home. As usual, he opened the auto lock gate in front of his porch without getting out of his car as he was always careful since there were various break in's and armed robberies in Seremban. As he drove his car into the porch and tried to close the auto lock gate with his remote device, four man whose ethnicity were Indians rode their motor bikes in front of the gate and one of them stood in between the closing auto gates to stop the auto lock gates from closing. My brother became uneasy and watched as he suddenly tried to come in and even knocked on my brother's side window and said he wanted to ask for directions. My brother did not roll down the window or unlocked the car door. He ordered the man to go out and not to come in. However, it seems the man actually on came down to see whether my brother was alone. Once he sees that he was alone in the car, he grinned an evil smirk at my brother and motioned to his friend outside on the motorbike to come in and as my brother watched, the man on the bike came down and pulled a very long Parang that was about a metre long from the side to get ready to come in and rob the house.
At this stage, my brother was really alarmed and Thank God as he did not alight the car, and stepped on the accelerator to ram the man with the parang who wanted to come in. The man was not hit but was then knocked down by the impact of the car hitting the auto lock gate. He was shocked as he did not know or realize what my brother just did. He fell down on his motor bike and one of the other four members of his gang came to my brother's side window with a parang and hit the side window in an attempt to break the glass and hurt my brother. I believe that God was on my brother's side and a higher power was protecting him as the glass did not give way as the parang slid on the smooth slippery glass. My brother then stepped on the pedal and rammed into the motor bike again with his car and the man with the parang behind the motor bike jumped up onto the pavement and started waving his parang to ask my brother to stop trying to run him down. My brother was then on an adrenaline rush as all he could think of now is the safety of his wife and barely one year old son. The man managed to get back on his motorbike and flee the scene with the others and my brother was chasing them with his now pretty damaged and barely moving car. He nearly had the chance to run him down but my brother stopped himself as his conscience got the better of him. The robbers got away.
By then, neighbours had heard everything and came out to look at what happened. They misunderstood and assumed that my brother was actually in a fight with the gang. After seeing him reporting to the police about the attempted armed robbery, they approached my brother and shared their experiences.
There was a Malay family, another Indian family and basically they are of all ethnicity that stays in the same neighbourhood. The Indian family informed my brother that his house was just broken into a few days ago. Probably the same parang wielding gang. Another family a few houses back of the street was also robbed. They told my brother that they had thought he was in a fight with the gang and didn't want to get involved but had they known it was a gang of robbers they would have rushed to his help. They promised to alert and look out for each other. Starting from then they kept their lights on and were suspicious of any strange passers-by. My brother's car was in a state of serious damage and the front gate was also smashed.
By the time the police were there my younger brother whom my brother called had already arrived and my father had also reached the scene of the crime. It was understandable that the police took almost an hour as my sister in law had called the police from the 999 hotline the moment she heard the loud commotion of my brother running his car into the robbers. It takes a long time for them to process the call as it was not a local call center. They had to radio in for a local patrol car so it would have been faster if she'd called the local police line instead. However, when the police officers were here, they interviewed the neighbours and collected evidence. They then left and a day after that, due to the numerous police reports on robberies and break ins there was a patrol car that came to check the area.
It really worries me as a citizen as what kind of society are we living in when we hear everyday of the crimes in the streets, houses and even in their mode of transportation. In this post I included some links of the various robberies that happened with the same modus operandi of a gang of parang wielding outlaws that robbed people in their houses in broad daylight and even a local MP was not safe as his house was broken into.
My dear readers, I hope that you will all be alert and report to the police if u see any suspicious groups or ppl that u do not know hanging around ur area. They usually operate in a "shopping" way by fishing for houses that they picked as easy robbery targets and then rob.
It could happen to anyone and everyone so do keep an alert attitude and care for ur own and neighbour's safety.
I wish u all dear readers a happy new year and hope that this post has been useful to u.
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