I have witnessed two crimes in a week!
Did I witness two crimes in less than a week?
Last week, in the afternoon I was driving to my home after visiting my daughter when I witnessed what I thought was a kidnapping of a child. It all happened quickly – as I was passing I saw a car drive at a boy who was walking beside a bike. The car stopped and a man jumped out and dragged the boy who did get away briefly, before he was bundled into the back of the car, and the man quickly got in the car and drove off.
I was shocked and stopped my car a short distance away and phoned 000 and informed the Police of what had happened. I knew I may have had some of the event on my dash cam, too and they told me what to do.
The bicycle was left on the side of the road, and I reversed back to take a photo of it with my phone. As I did three people crossed the road. They had witnessed it all, and also had a photo of the car with the registration number. I explained that phoning 000 was something that they could have done, but since I had reported it, and the information by then would have been with Policelink – so I suggested they phone them to tell them of the information they had. We were all distressed by what we witnessed. Was it a kidnapping?
Later I went to the local police station to see if they wanted to check on the dash cam recording. It did show some of the event, but as I was driving and the camera was focussed on the road in front, I did not record the whole event.
Eventually, a police officer came to the desk to tell me that it was a domestic issue, and it was a family member driving the car, and the child had apparently stolen the bike.
Today I took my car to the service centre as it was booked in for a service. I was walking towards the bus stop to return to my home, when there was screaming, smashing of glass and a black car raced away.
It turns out that there was a robbery at a nearby bottle shop – quite a collection of expensive bottles had been stolen and the people that had done so, dropped some of the bottles on the road before the car took off.
There were probably half a dozen bottles smashed on the road, and I picked up one of the now empty bottles and took it to two staff/security who had just appeared. They told me what had happened and that they had rushed out, but were not able to stop the thieves.
We are all aware of the increase in crime – especially juvenile crime – but the fact that I had witnessed two events within a week is quite disturbing.
How can we stop it? How can we make life safer for all? A BIG problem!!
Any comments?
