On my way to office on a daily
root in my Maruti 800, I was stopped by the traffic light in Bommanahalli
junction. The passenger seat window was rolled down. It was typical traffic at Bommanahalli
junction people moving around across the road without caring about the traffic,
there are vendors selling and autos trying cut across the road…
I had kept my Samsung Corby Pro
mobile phone on Dashboard on the left side.
The traffic light turned
green and vehicles started moving slowly, I saw one guy walking towards my
vehicle on the right side and he was very close to the Car and almost bumped
into the side mirror. As the traffic was moving, I started moving very slowly
and suddenly realized, Car’s back wheel went on a small hump. The same guy came
to me and said, Sir, you just went over my foot, can’t you see? I got little
worried and told him why you came so close to the car when the traffic is
moving, I yelled at him. He ignored me, and as the traffic picked the pace, I could
not stop and drove away to office. It all happened in less than 2-3 minutes.
Thought kept coming to me, as I felt
bad that I just ran over someone’s foot. I went to office and realized that I
haven’t taken my phone from the Car, went back to the Car to realize, I just lost
the phone.
For a while I was shocked not for
losing the phone but on the plot these con men laid to steal the phone. I got
to hear the same story from one of my friends again from the same location and
thought I should write about it and spread the awareness. This time traffic
thieves were able to distract attention even when my friend had his wife
sitting next to her in the Alto car. The passenger window was rolled down just enough
for a hand to slide in.
Here is how the targets are
chosen by the con man
- You are driving a small car and have the left side of the window rolled down (does not matter if you have someone sitting next to you)
- Stuck in the traffic light in the Bommanahalli junction, below the flyover (this could be on both places, you are either on the Begur road trying to go on Hosur road or you are on Hosur road trying to come inside Begur road)
- You have a smart phone which is kept near to the left window or on the dashboard
Were you victim of such misdeed?
Let’s avoid such instance by spreading this message.
