First off, i have to say that my way of life is probably alot different from most of you here. I live in high rise flat where many residents are squeezed into the same block, hence having a high population density. Everyday, there would be rag and bone mans( known as karang guni) roaming through the block looking into buying "scrap" from house owners to recycle and make some profit.

 

 

 

Recently, with increase of foreign workers entering our country, there has also been increase of karang gunis roaming around. Some newspaper have announced some karang gunis have earned millions through these jobs over a period of time.

 

 

 

Ironically, theft cases around our house seems to have increased as well. At certain periods of time where we keep our doors closed and some belongings (like slippers, sandals and such would be kept outside of house). At our previous house, we used to keep our shoebox inside. My family grew plants in plantpots as well.

 

 

 

It's like out of blue theft cases would arise where we find some of our sandals and such actually went missing for no reason. I've also seen some plants missing as well. Some thieves would steal whole plantpots, or when they spot well blooming flowers, they may decide to steal a shoot or half/whole of the plant together. About 2 weeks ago, i found my fancy slippers gone unnoticed (yes it was my fault because i grew too lazy to bring them indoors) and i am a Bigfoot so i actually doubted that anyone would be able to wear my slippers even if stolen. Guess i was wrong.

 

 

 

It is quite impossible to actually catch these lame thieves :wall: , don't even want to use money to install a camera near the corridor . At least i took precautions to prevent theft from happening. I attempted to keep as much belongings indoors as possible. Apparently, keeping plantpots indoors can be impractical for their growth or can easily become killer litter. Also, without evidence i can't report this case to the police.

 

 

 

What other precautions should i practice as well to minimise such lame thefts from happening?

 

 

 

Thank you for reading through, i hope i have not leave any bad impression of my character irl behind. :uhh:

The way I see it, and the way it is in so much of the developed world is:

 

 

 

If you leave it outside, you can expect it to get nicked.

 

 

 

Not nice, but true.

If you leave a pair of sneakers outside put some razor blades inside where they can't see them. Then when the thieves put the shoes on, their feet get cut like hell.

start investing in letter bombs?

If you leave a pair of sneakers outside put some razor blades inside where they can't see them. Then when the thieves put the shoes on, their feet get cut like hell.

 

 

 

cruel but just. and hilarious

Leave a 20 dollar bill folded up on the ground (folding makes it look more realistic) and wire it so that when he picks it up, all doors lock and alarms go off.

 

 

 

Screwed.

If you leave a pair of sneakers outside put some razor blades inside where they can't see them. Then when the thieves put the shoes on, their feet get cut like hell.

 

 

 

Or when the people they fence them to put them on they get cut like hell.

If you leave a pair of sneakers outside put some razor blades inside where they can't see them. Then when the thieves put the shoes on, their feet get cut like hell.

-.- That plan can easily backfire though, in case I forgot to take off the blades, i cut myself instead. Not that good idea, though hilarious

Anyone see the Digg video section? There was a security thing that alerted you when an intruder came, and you could log onto a web page and use a live feed cam to point and shoot any intruders using a rapid fire, self loading BB gun

Leave a 20 dollar bill folded up on the ground (folding makes it look more realistic) and wire it so that when he picks it up, all doors lock and alarms go off.

 

 

 

Screwed.

 

 

 

Um... The author doesn't use dollars as currency... Hence "Karang Guni"

 

 

 

Oh and didn't he/she say something about the extremely dense population making them live in crowded flats? Definitely doesn't sound American...Not Canadian...Not any country I can think of except -- Asian.

Leave a 20 dollar bill folded up on the ground (folding makes it look more realistic) and wire it so that when he picks it up, all doors lock and alarms go off.

 

 

 

Screwed.

 

 

 

Um... The author doesn't use dollars as currency... Hence "Karang Guni"

 

 

 

Oh and didn't he/she say something about the extremely dense population making them live in crowded flats? Definitely doesn't sound American...Not Canadian...Not any country I can think of except -- Asian.

It's not crowded at all. It just like lots of residents together in a block of flats. Anyway, if you're that interested to know, I live in Singapore.

First off, i have to say that my way of life is probably alot different from most of you here. I live in high rise flat where many residents are squeezed into the same block, hence having a high population density.

 

 

 

Thank you for reading through, i hope i have not leave any bad impression of my character irl behind. :uhh:

 

 

 

B: i dont think so :D

 

 

 

I: its better if they dont know :lol: :lol:

 

 

 

On topic on Off topic: i have 3 shoe racks outside my house, non got stolen.

 

Bad neighbourhood eh?

 

 

 

Definitely doesn't sound American...Not Canadian...Not any country I can think of except -- Asian.

 

 

 

Singapore

 

B: i dont think so :D

 

 

 

I: its better if they dont know :lol: :lol:

 

 

 

On topic on Off topic: i have 3 shoe racks outside my house, non got stolen.

 

Bad neighbourhood eh?

Wow? Maybe my neighbourhood is bad, but it's almost similar to my old house. For my previous shoe rack, the shoes were taken out and thrown on the floor before it was carried away, very weird way to steal. I'll probably agree with you that my neighbourhood is bad. Anyway I get karang gunis bypassing my house 3 times a day at least.

well theft only happen once outside my house.

 

1 of my 3 bicycles outside got stolen.

 

:)

Leave a 20 dollar bill folded up on the ground (folding makes it look more realistic) and wire it so that when he picks it up, all doors lock and alarms go off.

 

 

 

Screwed.

Or hook it up to the mains. When it picks it up he gets zapped, maybe make the voltage a bit higher :D

hmmmm.....*mastermind thinks* you could try and become "interested" in joining one of their businessess, and when you see one of the people who might be a thief try to talk to him and film it or get a recording of it, ask him normal questions like what do you do, how do you get so much stuff, do you ever steal stuff you could catch them out