Ann's Milestone and her Involvement in a Crime Scene

Ann finally hit the 10,000km milestone about a week before its scheduled quarterly Toyota maintenance.

It was a very memorably milestone because a thief smashed my right rear passenger window and stole my laptop. It happened between 4:50 PM and 5:20 PM while Ann was parked in an empty lot beside Ala Crème in San Fernando, Pampanga. The stolen item was a 4-5 year old IBM Thinkpad X40. It hardly has any market value anymore - but I lost all my pictures and files. That is what hurts the most. I was the third victim that day. The second victim was a San Miguel employee who was attending a seminar at Gracelane. His bag mostly contained business documents and had little value to the thieves. Hence, it was stashed underneath my car – right behind my front right tire. At around 6:30 PM in the San Fernando police station, the 2^nd victim arrived in his Toyota Revo to claim his bag. His Toyota Revo had the same window smashed in his car. The 2^nd victim was so happy and relieved to get his belongings even though a few items were missing. I couldn’t help but narrate to him the trauma that his bag experienced underneath my car. Earlier, none of us wanted to touch his bag for fear that it may be a bomb. Hence, the police had to call in their bomb disposal unit.

There methods were crude but effective. They simply tied one end of a plastic rope on the bag. Then, they pulled the bag away from my car at a safe distance – at least 30 meters away. It was a funny experience too because he was pulling the bag in our direction where it could explode near us. Hahaha!