Precision Robbery

My dad has just emailed me to let me know that our home got broken into recently. The robbery occurred during a time when nobody was home, which was a good thing. One specific document was taken, in addition to some cash and jewellery. My dad has his suspicions on who was responsible as the robbery was fairly precise.

So, I’m just trying to recall if I have anything valuable kept at home. The only possible thing that I can think of is my foreign currency collection. I’ve been collecting random bits of foreign currency, in small denominations. I can’t recall if I have it kept in my room but it probably was. It’s not much anyway, maybe around RM 100 worth of various coins and notes. But my dad’s collection of old coins and notes were stolen too and that was worth significantly more than mine. My mum’s jewellery was probably worth a little bit too.

Although I have a nice collection of computers at home, none of them were carted off. That was very nice of them as I would have mourned the loss of my computers more than my cash, even though they are probably not worth very much either. According to my dad, the computers weren’t even touched, even though the various drawers in the computer room were all opened. Too bad that they’d only find nothing but electronics and computer parts in those drawers and lots and lots of cables.

For me, this experience is rather surreal to me. I have been reading about the rising crime rate in Malaysia but it has never actually touched my family until now. In fact, for as long as I can remember, my family has never had our home broken into. Not even once. My family has always lived life with a simple belief that if you don’t have anything worth stealing, nobody will bother to rob you, which has evidently served us well until now. In fact, I plan to live the very same way in the future, in a spartanly furnished home.

Too bad for the people who robbed us then. My family is not rich. They would have made a whole bundle more if they robbed any one of our neighbours. But like my dad says, money was probably not their primary motivation.