SMS Blast

The next time someone gives a Blast SMS, please consider a second look.

Yesterday, i received this text from Sleeping Beauty;

" Pls help to blast out this sms asap. A car was stolen in Taman Berkeley, Klang early morning on 16 Feb. A small boy aged 6 yrs old was inside the car. If u c a maroon Proton Wira JFA 4552, pls call Mr. Foo at (number given) or the nearest police station. It is the kid who must be in fear now, that matters. Your immediate sms blast is very much appreciated."

well, usually what i do is to forward them over to friends whom i think would be around the proximity of the area, and usually that was it.

i never ponder what happens next, i don't care to ask if my friends ever did forward them along. in my head, i did my part.

then this morning, i read The Star online..

Tuesday February 17, 2009

Robbers drive off with victim’s son in back seat
By WANI MUTHIAH

KLANG: The Foo family had a most frightening experience when two robbers drove off in their car with their son still in the back seat in Taman Berkeley here.

Their nightmare began yesterday morning when Kendrick Foo, 43, returned home after dropping off his wife at the Meru wet market where she runs a stall selling noodles and soya bean by-products.

Six-year-old Foo Koo Ping was sleeping in the back seat when two men grabbed Foo, pushed him to the ground and took off in his Proton Wira.

He surrendered his wallet and threw himself in front of the car, screaming that his son was asleep in the back seat.

“I believe that they too panicked and sped off,” said Foo.

“He is our only child and we cannot imagine anything terrible happening to him,” said Foo, an employee at the IT department of a private hospital in Klang.

The robbers abandoned his car in front of Chemistry Department pensioner Zamedin Hasar’s house in Taman Desaria, near Sunway.

Zamedin, 65, said he was on his way to his neighbourhood surau at 6.10am when he noticed a maroon Wira parked outside his house with the engine running.

When he returned 30 minutes later, the car was still there.

Zamedin said looked into the car and saw the boy asleep in the back seat.

“The feeling of relief after being told that our son was all right is unexplainable,” said Foo, adding that he met Zamedin at the Sungai Way police station with his son and car.

Koo Ping, when asked what happened, coolly replied: “Two bad men drove my daddy’s car and I was very frightened.”

Meanwhile, Klang OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Mat Yusop said the police received their first report at 5.15am. The two robbers are still at large.

On a another matter, City police said there was no such case of an eight-year-old girl being kidnapped from Taman Maluri in a Nissan Sentra that was circulated by SMS a few days ago.