to all drivers out there!!

just received this email from my SIL..just thought of sharing it to everyone.. please spread this for the safety of your loveones





Dear All,

Just be careful especially if u are driving Toyata
Estima or other luxury cars targeted by these
impersonators

This happened to me today.
Please take care.

I was visiting a specialist at Sg. Besi,
located at a shophouse near South City Plaza , Sg. Besi today
with my 8 year old daughter. If, like me, you are unfamiliar
with this part of KL, its is adjacent to The Mines, off the
Besraya Highway . This was at 1 pm, broad daylight, with lots
of people about.

After the consultation, my daughter and I
got into my car, a Toyota Estima. I started the engine and
was about to back out of the streetside parking space when a
bunch of men (in this case, of Indian ethnic background) who
were fussing around another car parked two lots away turned
around and started to gesture to me to stop. They flashed police IDs and
indicated that I should stop. I assumed that something
untoward had happened to the car, or its occupants (a
white MPV) which had its bonnet up and doors opened, and
around 10 guys buzzing around it. I felt uneasy right away
and (whilst with the windows up & door locked) gestured
to them that I would speak to them a liitle further down the
road. (away from so many guys).

A white van marked with the familiar blue
"Polis DiRaja Malaysia " insignia on the doors and
bonnet drove up alongside and the two men disembarked and
showed me their IDs once again. They said that my car road
tax serial number was different from that registered to my
vehicle licence plate and that I should allow them to check
the chassis number of the vehicle by lifting the bonnet. I
immediate countered that by asking them " Eh, what
exactly are you guys doing huh?"

They replied, " We are the police, cannot read ah? We
are doing our jobs." whilst gesturing towards their
IDs. They also showed me their mobile hand-held
"checking unit" which looked all "official-website-form" on it and showed me a
number and pointed out that this was different from that
shown on my road tax sticker.

Since the sticker faces outwards I had no
way of checking. I just contered that with " Eh, if the
number is different, its your problem, not mine. Whats wrong
with your computer system huh?" They got very
irritated. In the meantime, while this exchange was
happening, I was trying to call my husband on his moblie to
verify the road tax renewal (cos, y'know, us wimmin
don't like to get our hands dirty with this kinda
thing).... Rang, couldn't get through immediately, so to
buy a little more time, I told the plainclothes cops that I
didnt't think that they were cops (altho I wasn't sure)
and that I wanted the check to be done in the police
station. They said, sure, to follow them to the station nearby.

They started to drive their police van and
indicated for me to follow them. By this time I got through
to my husband and he just said - " car jackers,
don't follow them, this is bulllshit" I was already
panicking because there was like quite a few of the guys by
the car, and I wasn't sure if there were't any of
the group tailing me...whether I was a car sandwich or no.


So I gave my husband the van's licence plate and drove around looking for the

nearest access to the highway (tol plaza) The police van
followed me and I just kept smiling at them and gesturing
for them to follow me. (gila huh?) Then I stopped at the tol
lane (The Sg. Besi Tol) realised there is no tol office just
the drivethrough counter. (almost went to the smart tag lane out of habit... just
see how bodoh we can be) I just stopped there and told the
girl at the counter my dilemma....for about 10 minutes. The
van went through the toll and drove off. I waited to be sure
no other vehicle was waiting around, gave the girl the
licence plate and asked her to call the cops, although I had
doubts about follow-through. Even at that time, I wasn't
100% sure if they were genuine thugs or cops... because,
sadly, as we alll know... even the real thing looks pretty
iffy in this part of the world huh?


Anyway, my husband had called back to say
that they had checked the plate with Bukit Aman and they
boys in blue do not have a vehicle with that registration. I
just kept drivin' and drivin' and drivin' cos
really, I had no idea where I was.... until I reached Sunway
Pyramid. For the life of me I really don't know how I
got there (Since South KL is terra incognita), and mainly
because I was so busy checking my rear view mirror to see if
any car was tailing me. My 8 year old daughter was getting a
little nervous in the back there.

When we got out of the car as I had decided
to have lunch at Sunway Pyramid (I had to calm down right?)
she turned to me and said... " I think they wanted the
car AND me" Oh dear god... I hadn't even thought about THAT

So please, do watch out. The van plate (which is probably fake...) was WMK 3944.

Doesn't matter, who and how and when, the ploys, I'm sure, keep
evolving, just be your most SCEPTICAL self at all times when "OUT THERE".

Take care y'all.

From,

Karen Lim Siebel