Have you ever been a victim of a crime?

[MenInG]

Our neighbour got burgled and its pretty traumatic.

Wonder what your experience is and was their closure as in recovery or punishment of the perps etc?

 

[JaDed]

Yes sadly more than once and my family has been too and just yesterday con men tricked my friend's elderly father for a huge amount that too from their pension account.

And no no closure just time taken for healing and being more careful although I must say anger in a person increases for random strangers.

Its sad and disturbing but one should always remember "materialistic" things atleast we might be able to bring back but "health" and life we can't.

 

[Thivagar]

1. Someone knocked on my door saying they were gonna kill me.
2. Some one broke into my home and robbed my ps2 back in the day.
3. My university cricket team's president and his friend stole our uniform money and went on a vacation.

That is all I can think of.

 

[MenInG]

Yes sadly more than once and my family has been too and just yesterday con men tricked my friend's elderly father for a huge amount that too from their pension account.

And no no closure just time taken for healing and being more careful although I must say anger in a person increases for random strangers.

Its sad and disturbing but one should always remember "materialistic" things atleast we might be able to bring back but "health" and life we can't.

thats very sad.

 

[Rayyman]

My cousin told me that a robber was at his door, but then he showed him his bicep and the robber ran away.

 

[shaz619]

Some hood thugs chased me for about 15 minutes, held a knife to me throat while they checked my pocket to take a large sum of £5 in this moment a car stopped in the middle of the road, I hit the guy with the knife in the knee he'd drop and I'd run and opened the car door as the good Samaritan woman drove off saving me life. Had other stuff that I've been a victim off but that in particular stands out

 

[Slog]

1. Someone knocked on my door saying they were gonna kill me.
2. Some one broke into my home and robbed my ps2 back in the day.
3. My university cricket team's president and his friend stole our uniform money and went on a vacation.

That is all I can think of.

#2 and #3 seems like a comedy skit

 

[Slog]

someone stole my new sandals from the masjid when i was 10-11 years old.

A few months later my cousin had lost his slippers and went to the muezzin's room (he lived in the mosque only) and asked if he could borrow sth to walk back homr.

Lo and behold i find my old sandals sitting pretty next to the wall in the muezzin's room.

I didnt say anything but i am 100% sure they were mine...

 

[shah_1]

I was robbed twice in Karachi. Took my smartphones at gun point

I use Q mobile whenever I go to Karachi.

 

[The_KING]

Once had my phone robbed in the upper deck of a bus. I now only sit in the lower deck of the bus.

 

[gani999]

1. I had two bikes stolen.
2. Someone hacked into my credit card and went shopping for really expensive shoes and clothes. Got it all refunded by the bank though, but I really felt violated.
3. The wing mirror of my car has been smashed twice, and the windscreen once.
4. During my university days I came home once to find that there had been a burglary attempt. The thieves had tried to force open the front window, but had given up.

That's about it, nothing very serious.

 

[Thivagar]

#2 and #3 seems like a comedy skit

Sadly they aren't.

 

[PakLFC]

My old home was burgled a few times. If this happens once then it will continue to do so. After a successful burglary they target you as being on the hot list no matter what security system is in place. The police can only take finger prints, that's all. It angers the victim no ends to know that a complete stranger has been going through their private things and those that have sentimental value. Once a bunch of young boys broke in to my home thinking I was absent when I was watching TV with some friends. My pal had an Alsatian dog he set on them forcing them to submit until the police arrived. That is the worst that has happened to me.

 

[Zak_Fan]

I get stuff stolen from me all the time. During my SSB interview, some fellow cadet stole my mobile and watch while I was taking shower. Had my laptop stolen in college. About two months back, I had my mobile snatched just outside my house.

Thankfully, I have never faced a life-threatening situation, and I hope it stays like this.

 

[Suleiman]

Same case as OP, neighbor got robbed at night back in Karachi. The owner of the house was great friends with my grandfather, he was a lawyer. His son got shot in the arm that night, the sound must've been heard through the street as we heard it too.

And then when I was about a year old our house got robbed as well, it was the gardener putting all the decor in the living room in a sack, he brought a hooked steel rod with him and laid it behind him while he was putting the stuff in the bag. My mom saw him, lunged for the rod and tried to hit him with it, but he ran and snuck out from the backyard.

Another instance was at my other grandma's house, again in Karachi. Where our driver, named Asif , got the robbers to our place (knowing full well btw, they offered to share the goods with him), robbers came in demanded all the jewelry in the house and put a gun to my uncle and told him to open an iron chest (which had nothing in it btw) thinking it was loaded with cash.

The chest however was bolted shut and the key was lost, robber told him open it or I'll shoot. So somehow my uncle pried it open, and then the robbers left.

We saw that goddamn driver again later after he got fired, he was waving.

He looked kind of like Anil Kapoor.

 

[MenInG]

So has anyone ever confronted the perp(s) ? in a court or on the street etc?

 

[dhump]

Growing up in Karachi it was roz ka mamool.

- Robbed in streets and roads more than 5-6 times.
- Twice in public bus was quite stressed while bus is running and robbed at the same time.
- Had 3 encounters where was able to escape from being robbed.

Seen people and houses being robbed quite a few times...Target killing of people 2 times and 2 aftermaths of bomb blasts.

Well what a sad thing to write make me feel dark down inside.

 

[dhump]

So has anyone ever confronted the perp(s) ? in a court or on the street etc?

If you consider running away confrontation than yes pushed and ran 2 times while being robbed on a bike.

 

[Slog]

Touch wood but I've generally stayed clear of such happenings in Karachi even though some posts above make it seem like a war zone

And I have spent quite a lot of times in non burger areas like Nazimabad, Saddar, II Chundrigar etc

 

[DW44]

Long ago, back in 96-97, when we had just moved to Pindi, we returned home one weekend from Peshawar to find our house burgled. We were lucky that the burglars were the most incompetent burglars on the face of the planet since they couldn't break into the house and made do with the contents of a large trunk lying in the driveway which was mostly full of old junk.

 

[Moiza]

If you consider running away confrontation than yes pushed and ran 2 times while being robbed on a bike.

Not the smartest thing to do considering how fearless the robbers have become

 

[dhump]

Not the smartest thing to do considering how fearless the robbers have become

Was not an act of bravery but instinct kicking in...they normally come like 4 people on 2 bikes if they want to stop your bike one bike try to block the way another try to grab you from back...I was lucky on two occasions when guy from back tried to grab the collar from back naturally pushed him and my friend was able to ran the bike away.

Of course if I consider they could have shot from behind but we were lucky even when not the smartest.

 

[hadi123]

I've been burgled twice. Once in 2009 and the 2nd time a few years later but can't remember which year exactly.

 

[saeedhk]

Never been a victim of crime or witnessed a crime.

Crime is pretty much non-existent in Hong Kong.

 

[Syed1]

One time in Karachi there was a biker who tried to stop me obviously to get my cell and wallet and I just gunned it and left him to bite my dust



In hindsight that could have turned out really bad had he taken out his weapon and discharged it.