All these news are depressing.
All of a sudden everything you do sounds soo dangerous and life-threatening. You go out for dinner and on your way back, you could get hacked and left to bleed to death. You could be walking back to your place from the LRT station and some guys on a motorbike could threaten you with a parang. You could be in school and still robbed at knife point.
Seriously, what has become of our society?
The “snatch thief” issue has been around for way tooo long. Remember those days when snatch thief victims were hanging on to their lives in the ICU? Remember those days when pictures of these poor souls were plastered on the front pages of our dailies? Remember those days when we followed closely on the progress of these victims? Remember how badly we felt when news of their deaths were made public? Remember how we cursed the snatch thieves and their entire families for causing so much grief not only to the victims’ families but to the whole nation?
Now, remember those days when the oh-so-caring government proposed the oh-so-holy bill for heavier penalty if the snatch thieves were found guilty? And, for goodness’ sake, whatever happened to THAT bill now?
Has the government forgotten about it?
Have we, the rakyat, forgotten about it?
When will we EVER learn..?
Update: PM wants theft curbed and the public kept safe
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the truth is we will never learn. things pass. time heals. stuffs forgotten.
just do whatever you can for yourself and hope the government can up the act.
pelf: Wishful thinking? Hmm…
Since when have people been NOT violent? It just takes enforcement, enforcement and enforcement … and we don’t have nearly enough of those …
pelf: We don’t have nearly enough of ANYTHING, do we…?! ARGH!
There was this case in Kuching where two snatch thieves got beaten up really badly by pedastrians after a foiled attempt. Unless the goverment steps up measures in giving us rakyat more sense of security, I, sad to say, advocate vigilante action.
pelf: But we will not be as lucky as having people who will chase the snatch thieves and beat them up for us all the time, you know. Most passers-by will just watch *shakes head*
No where is safe for us now. People has become monster like… they can just do anything just for money. I wonder whether do they live in guilt after killing those victims while the polices are still hunting for them?
pelf: No, I don’t think they feel a wee bit guilty. And for all we know, they would be too busy “attacking” their next victims they did not even read the papers. Maybe they’re illiterate too.