Monday, November 1, 2010

Alarm with GPS no help?

All this while I thought that Seremban is quite a safe place to stay due to its lesser crime as compared to other towns but I guess I was wrong. Even the Member of Parliament, Anthony Loke’s house was robbed and a few months ago a friend’s Toyota Fortuner was stolen from his house and today it was reported in the Star newspaper that another Toyota Fortuner was stolen from a businessman’s house in Seremban, and that car which was bought through a tender just a couple of day ago, even fixed with an alarm system with GPS but It seemed the supposedly advanced gadget did not work as the alarm system was not triggered and the GPS company could not even trace the vehicle whereabouts.

So the bad luck businessman is losing his hard-earned RM 134,000 as the car is waiting for transfer of ownership and thus no insurance coverage. It seems like there is a syndicate going around Seremban in stealing Toyota Fortuner as there were many incidents reported of late. The thieves must be targeting these popular vehicles in housing estates in Seremban, marking their targets and strike when the time is right as these car thefts seemed well planned and executed, leaving no traces and now even a Fortuner fixed with an alarm system with GPS can be stolen so easily without the notice of the owner right in front of his house.

I guess car thieves nowadays are very high tech and thus the Police need to be technologically well-equipped or otherwise they are losing out fast to the tech-savvy thieves and no wonder the car theft is on the rise as the Police is not capable of arresting the criminals.

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