Unlucky Cellphone Thieves

Three bungling cellphone thieves in Puchong, Malaysia had a particularly bad run of luck last week when one of the robbers visited a shop at Taman Kinrara claiming to want his cellphone repaired. When the shopkeeper was looking at the phone, the thief produced a machete knife, known locally as a parang. At this, the shopkeeper understandably, fled the store.

While the robber was helping himself to cell phones from the store display, the shopkeeper returned with a cudgel and caught the robber on the head. At this an accomplice keeping watch outside came in to assist and the shopkeeper retreated. At this the thieves left and took off on a motorbike being driven by a third accomplice.

The shopkeeper made one last attempt to stop the thieves, and although he was slashed with the knife, his actions caused the bike to crash and locals detained the robbers.

To finish off though - it later transpired that the cellphones that they had stolen were in fact, just worthless display dummy shells!"

Posted to the site on 8th May 2006