Mobile phone snatchers

Mobile phone snatchers

From Media Indonesia

At 9 a.m. on Oct. 18, I boarded an electric train (KRL) from Manggarai to the UI railway station to go to my campus, University of Indonesia, Depok. The train was rather empty that morning so each passenger could get a seat. I sat close to the train door, reading a book.

At Pancasila University station, a smartly dressed man siting in front of me came close to the door, a signal he wanted to get off the train. I had no sense at all of an impending crime. All of a sudden, the man snatched the cell phone from my pocket, then dexterously leapt from the moving train. Indeed he is a pro. May Allah show him the road of repentance.

After some checking, I found it in the hands of someone else, who said he had bought it somewhere in Jatinegara, East Jakarta.

M. ALFAN ALFIAN M.

Central Jakarta