Beware! Hypnotists are around

Beware! Hypnotists are around

On Monday, March 27, 1995 my father-in-law (Iskandar Mamnoe) and my wife (Azka Iskandar), who sell ornamental trees and flowers in Kebayoran Lama area, received two customers who said they were from India.

As traders, my father-in-law and my wife welcomed the guests and asked them to have a look around. At that moment, my 18-month old child cried and my wife, as usual, breast-fed her.

Visitors to our shop are usually interested in trees or the flowers. But these Indian guests showed little interest in our merchandise, instead they kept talking to my father-in-law, though the subject of their talk was not clear. My father-in-law invited the guests to sit on the front veranda and served them with a glass of water. But the guests asked for tea and so my father-in-law told my wife to make tea for them.

According to my father-in-law, after listening to nonsense talk, he lost consciousness. At this moment the guests began to carry out their operation. They took all the money (Rp 3,500,000) from the drawer and left our shop calmly, while my father-in-law was unaware of what had happened. When my wife came back with the tea she was quite alarmed to see that the drawer was in a mess. She did not want to loose any chance and tried to chase the wicked guests in an ojek, but to no avail. The two men fled in a car that was parked in front of our house. Unfortunately, my wife did not notice the plate number of the car.

This should serve as a warning to readers to be watchful against anyone, or strangers who say they come from India. Their deceitful trick victimizes innocent people.

We would like to appeal to the police to take necessary action and arrest the suspects. Then all the victims can be called in to identify the culprits.

LALU MARA SATRIA WANGSA

Jakarta