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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: standing right behind you...
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 Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:52 am Post subject: Caught the punks in the act |
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The other night my moped alarm started wailing, and when I looked out the window, I noticed four young punks loitering around it. A-ha! Here's my chance to stomp some skull! So, I grabbed probably the most ridiculous (but deadly) object I could find, called the security guard, and rushed out to confront them.
As I neared them their setup was clear. One guy was kneeling down examining the lock, and the other three were on point. "Yo! What's up d**kheads?" I asked politely, while threateningly spinning the frying pan around in my hand. They looked guiltier than a dog caught with his nose in the trashbin. Again, I asked them what the deal was, and one guy suggested that he had accidentally tripped the moped alarm when he opened the door of his van (which was parked right next to the bike. "OK, unlock the door" I said, which he did. So, the van was his after all. But his story just didn't add up. If he had tripped the alarm while getting out of the van, why the hell were they still hanging around 5 minutes later? And setting the alarm off again?
Anyway, about that time the security guard and another guy came walking up and our young thieves calmly but sure-footedly scampered away. They must've been late for church! Thank you security guard for showing up 5 minutes after the fact. Dumbass.
So, this morning I look out my window and notice that my bike's been pushed over. Damn. I go out to set it right and when I inspect it I notice all the gas has been siphoned. Nice touch. But here's the kicker. The punks left a little Buy the Way food thingy behind, on which they had written in Korean and English, "Kill you!" Should've studied English in school instead of worrying about your silly haircut, assweepay.
So, being a CSI enthusiast, I picked up the evidence using some trash and took it right on over to the police station with my wife, where they proceeded to dust it for fingerprints. We'll know in a day or two if they find a match. Right. My fingers are NOT crossed.
Anyway, that was my little weekend adventure. Next time I'm bringing a hammer instead of a frying pan.  |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:10 am Post subject: Re: Caught the punks in the act |
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Isn't it the job of a security guard to do things like respond to car alarms in the apartment complex? If you heard it, why didn't he? Why didn't he come out on his own? Why did you have to roust him out? These are questions I'd be raising with the apartment management, and I wouldn't stop harrassing them about it for a very, very long time. It wouldn't be just a week. They'd be bowing before my ass by the end of it.
I've had plenty of thefts and attempted thefts of my bikes. Incredibly, I've retrieved them more times than I've lost them, and that's been thanks to Korean neighbours, shopkeepers and a couple heads-up junior coppers -- people I'm not directly paying to keep an eye out for my interests.
I feel bad for you Mack. I'd be livid.
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:16 am Post subject: Re: Caught the punks in the act |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Isn't it the job of a security guard to do things like respond to car alarms in the apartment complex? If you heard it, why didn't he? |
No, no, no! The job of a security guard is to sit in the lobby, thereby increasing the property value and rent. People would not pay so much to live in a building without a security guard in the lobby! |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Time to rig up an exploding paint grenade.... |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:01 am Post subject: Re: Caught the punks in the act |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Isn't it the job of a security guard to do things like respond to car alarms in the apartment complex? If you heard it, why didn't he? |
No, no, no! The job of a security guard is to sit in the lobby, thereby increasing the property value and rent. People would not pay so much to live in a building without a security guard in the lobby! |
After a girlfriend's Gangnam apartment was burgled despite the thief having to walk right past the "security" guards to do that, after a pack of thieves stole about 30~40 children's bicycles in one sweep from my secretary's parents' Gangnam apartment, and after it was repeatedly insinuated that, as a foreigner, it would probably be in my interest to "show my appreciation" to the security guards of my (then) Gangnam apartment with, oh, how about some imported scotch and a few foreign designer-label trinkets now & then? After all that, Korean apartment living lost what little appeal it held for me. Be it in Gangnam or anywhere else. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:31 am Post subject: |
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Wait a second. You actually got them to dust for fingerprints?
I had a dude break in my house, jump out the window as I came home and all the cops did was ask why my Beagle did not attack the guy. |
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Red
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Caught the punks in the act |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Isn't it the job of a security guard to do things like respond to car alarms in the apartment complex? If you heard it, why didn't he? |
No, no, no! The job of a security guard is to sit in the lobby, thereby increasing the property value and rent. People would not pay so much to live in a building without a security guard in the lobby! |
The only differnce between these guys and real Korean cops is the ability to flash their lights and run the red. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
Wait a second. You actually got them to dust for fingerprints?
I had a dude break in my house, jump out the window as I came home and all the cops did was ask why my Beagle did not attack the guy. |
See here, what you should've done was said the thief was a foreigner. Then the cops would've called in the SWAT team.
As to the OP, I know how you feel, as my motorcycle survived 3 attempts to jack it. (luckily I am a paranoid fucker and kept it chained to a thick cement post when I wasn't ridding it). The cops couldn't have cared less.
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: |
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| You did write down the license plate # of the van? |
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poker player
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: On the river
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
Wait a second. You actually got them to dust for fingerprints?
I had a dude break in my house, jump out the window as I came home and all the cops did was ask why my Beagle did not attack the guy. |
ROTFLMAO-
I had a beagle years ago. The only thing he ever attacked was his food dish. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Wait a second. You actually got them to dust for fingerprints?
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... that was my thoughts exactly.
Are you sure the cops weren't just taking the p**s OP ?
I've never met a cop from any country that wouldn't laugh in your face if you brought them a sticker and asked them to dust it for fingerprints because the 'perps' siphoned gas out of your moped 
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Isn't it the job of a security guard to do things like respond to car alarms in the apartment complex? If you heard it, why didn't he?
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... probably because he gets 20000W won an hour to sit on his fat ass and do nothing. I'm sure he intends to carry out his job description to the tee.
I was attacked by an ex-con, druggie with a knife who was out on parole when I was in Germany. I barracked myself into my apartment and rang the police while the psychopath tried to knock down my door, then burrow under the door, then tried to climb across his window and grab onto mine.
I rang the German police and told them (in German) that I was being attacked by a crazy man with a knife. This was a big prison and half-way house town so crazy men on drugs weren't exactly unknown. The German police laughed in my face when they realized I was a foreigner.
Eventually, about an hour later they came over because a neighbour had called the police. My door was full of holes, the guy had cut his own hands with his knife and their was blood all over the place.
The polizei came into my apartment, searched it (without a warrant), phoned in all my passport details, waited for a reply. Then they left and knocked on the guy nextdoor's door and asked him to turn the music down 
IMO the police are at least as dangerous to you as the criminals are if you are a foreigner in a foreign country. But anyway, that's another story .. |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: standing right behind you...
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure the cops weren't just taking the p**s OP ?
I've never met a cop from any country that wouldn't laugh in your face if you brought them a sticker and asked them to dust it for fingerprints because the 'perps' siphoned gas out of your moped |
The point is not that the police are gonna jump right on it. However, if the police know such-and-such a crew is operating in such-and-such a way, using such-and-such a vehicle, they might just stumble upon the perps on one of their rounds (unlikely, but possible).
Anyway, I'm a model citizen (holds pinky finger to lips) and feel it's my duty to report any crime if only for statistical reasons. Of course nothing will be done about my goofy moped. Everyone in Korea thinks I'm nuts for driving one anyway.
The vehicle had no plates, but it did have an apartment sticker! So, we gave that to the police. The van was pretty banged up, so my guess: hot goods.  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| mack the knife wrote: |
| The van was pretty banged up, so my guess: hot goods. |
Or hot baked goods? Like muffins and danishes?
Sparkles*_* |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Or hot baked goods? Like muffins and danishes? |
Nah. Hot, as in a humungous, steaming pile of doggy doo. |
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prairieboy
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: The batcave.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject: Re: Caught the punks in the act |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Isn't it the job of a security guard to do things like respond to car alarms in the apartment complex? If you heard it, why didn't he? |
No, no, no! The job of a security guard is to sit in the lobby, thereby increasing the property value and rent. People would not pay so much to live in a building without a security guard in the lobby! |
No, that's not right. The security guard is there to drink soju, watch dramas, sleep, harass you for not properly sorting your drink bottles from other plastics correctly and putting those damn stickers on the windshields of cars that don't have an apartment parking sticker.
Oh, and also to collect those moving fees from people just moving into an apartment.
And that my friend is why we pay so much for those security guards. Heaven forbid they actually were to stop a crime. |
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