Ladies (and Gentlemen), please do be very careful of your belongings and kids, not only in the more popular shopping malls but EVERYWHERE.
Last Saturday (8pm, 31st July), a friend of mine got her handbag stolen in the parking lot of Bangsar Village Old Wing. CCTV cameras clearly showed her handbag hanging on a shopping trolley all around the shopping mall but once she hit the parking lot, BV’s CCTV cameras no longer supported the security of her handbag, which is why they have 2 security guards stalking the area. However, it is obviously insufficient as otherwise her bag wouldn’t have been stolen. We have no idea how it happened but in her busyness of loading her car up with stuff, a very quick passer by must have casually picked her handbag up on the way.
She didn’t mind losing her cash and valuables but her heart aches that all her daughter’s 1st birthday photos were in that bag (she was loading up the car just after the party) and all other memories of her kids, captured on 2 I-Phones within the bag. *sad*
We go to BV a lot. Lots of Mommies and Babies go to BV a lot. It is no longer fun if we cannot even feel safe at our own neighbourhood mall. We are urging the management to step up security this week. I will keep you posted.
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Updates – I managed to get some contacts for my friend to look further into the BV theft issue and it turns out that her handbag was stolen RIGHT OUTSIDE GYMBOREE (after a Gymboree birthday party). By a LADY!!!! Yes, this lady works together with 3 other men, loitering around BV searching for easy targets. BE VERY ALERT. They are extremely slick.
My friend was busy chatting to other Moms, thanking them for attending the party, and a lady passed by and just lifted her handbag off the trolley when nobody was really paying any attention. We were all leaving and this lady did it right in front of everyone, as though she blended in to be one of us, then casually slipped out coolly. The 3 men were on guard. They looked South American from blurred cameras.
You have been warned.
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oh man! thanks for the warning! Appreciate it.
Oh wow.. and you’ll think such places are safe.
Thanks for the warning, MamaP. That’s why I am so paranoid about my belongings everywhere I go, whether the place is safe or not. Sometimes, my hubby thinks I am crazy, well, it’s better to be labeled crazy than to lose anything…just anything at all.
To think I go there every week!!! An advice: wear a body cross-over sling bag to reduce chances. Or better still, don’t bring a handbag and get hubs to pay.
Oh no!! This sound scary! I was there with my mum, hubs and my boys on that night. We are having dinner at Outback. In fact i go BV very often!! Now i have to really careful and alert.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for that! am there everyday with the kids and I thought BV was one of the safest place!! Will keep a look out for those crooks
I’d always thought BV carpark was the safest, surveillance almost every corner, still I should not take for granted. Altho it didn’t happen in the car park, we’d better be careful too, never sling bags anywhere other than our own body, then also, we have to hug tight and be vigilant, look what happened to Annie’s bag at the pasar malam ?
tks for the warning thou i don’t frequent that place but it can happen anywhere!! and i think places like these r being target too…just be alert at all time !!
Yeah..be careful wherever we are. No where is safe.
Good post…just goes to show that these light-fingered lads and lasses will operate ANYWHERE…