I Got Robbed! - The Process
January 31st, 2008, Jason
It was around 5PM when I heard someone was knocking on the gate. I walked out of the room to attend a very fair and mid 20’s Malay / Indian adult about 180cm, clad in white T-shirt (with yellow sleeves), light blue cap and a pair of working jeans.
“The landlord has sent me to repair the blockage at the toilet upstairs.”
“Oh okay.”
Without feeling any suspicious, I opened the door and led the guy to the upstairs’ toilet. He inspected it for a while and went downstairs. I followed him and he went outside to turn off the main pipe and in-house pipe. We went back upstairs again while he proceed to further inspec it. He then came back downstairs and proceeded to the back of the house, where all the pipes are visible and connected.
He then asked me to go back upstairs while he would be at downstairs to fix the thing from the bottom by opening the pipe to drain away the stuffs that blocked the pipe. He then asked me to stand by to flush more water into the pipe once the signal was given.
I went upstairs and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Thinking that it would still take some time, I wanted to go back to my room (which is at ground floor) to attend an on-going conversation with Tiuniasing and also to check out the guy, wondering what took him so long.
Just when I was about to enter my room, I noticed that my desk was unusually empty / something was missing from the same spot. I walked to the back of the house (where all the pipes are) and saw nobody there. I hurriedly rushed to the porch where he parked his metallic blue Proton Satria, the car wasn’t there.
And that was how I got robbed at my own house.
Odd enough, he didn’t take my wallet (with RM100 inside) and my dSLR, which I both conviniently left it on top and under of the table. For that, I am slightly grateful.
I don’t think it was fully my fault or due to my carelessness as
1) He knew which toilet was spoilt and the blockage.
2) The guy acted like a real plumber, inspecting the blocked drainage and switched off the main pipe.
3) The landlord does send people to repair stuffs whenever / after we tell him about it but not this time.
4) Usually, there will be people at both upstairs and downstairs (me) to monitor the guy / stranger but I was home alone yesterday.
However, that being said, precautions will be taken from now on after discussing with the housemates by locking the outside gate, getting confirmation with the landlord or other safety precautions.
P/S : Apparently, it wasn’t the first case according to the police who came to my house. For such, our neighbours (student house) had the same thing just not too long ago.