Dude, where's my car?

Dude, where's my car?

From Republika

On March 11, my family and I went to the Safari Park in
Cisarua, Bogor. We parked our car in front of a ticket booth near
the cable cars. At about 1 p.m., we found that our car was gone.
We asked the man in charge of the ticket booth about our 1996
dark blue Grand Extra Kijang van. He answered that about five
minutes earlier, two men had gotten into a dark blue Kijang van
whose alarm was going off. Unfortunately, he had seen no reason
to become suspicious.

Not far from the ticket booth, we saw some patrolling security
guards and told them about our missing car. They immediately
contacted the security post to block the way to the park exit. We
were shortly told that the security guards had seen a Kijang van
whose alarm was ringing pass the security post toward the park
exit. Again, the security guards were not suspicious. More
strangely, the vehicle was able to leave the Safari Park without
presenting a parking ticket, which was still in our possession,
and with a ringing alarm still.

We immediately went to the Safari Park management. However,
they seemed bent on washing their hands of the matter. They said
this was the first such incident for the park. We then requested
that they file a report with the police. Still, we heard nothing
even though we waited there until nighttime. The park's
management even had us going back and forth between different
places, all of which was of no use.

Before going home, we reported our stolen car to the Cisarua
Police. The police said no one had contacted them about a stolen
vehicle. They also stated that this type of thing had happened
several times before. What annoys us is that no effort was made
by the Safari Park security guards to chase after the thieves,
even though the road from the park was congested at the time.

TRI RUSTOMO

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