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Nasty Encounter with a Snatch Thief | Primary School Essays | Elijah Wee | Singapore

Exams are over and I'm back posting more essays. My next one "Nasty Encounter with a Snatch Thief" for your reading pleasure ... 

 As the saying goes ‘Low crime doesn’t mean no crime’. The police are always reminding citizens to be vigilant and observant of their surroundings. Criminals spring up at the most unexpected times and might take advantage of them. It is mostly the women who are likely to fall prey to these criminals. Here is a story of a theft that had occurred to a middle-aged lady.

“A few more metres and I will reach the bus stop!” convincing herself as Mrs Gan took another stride. She had just finished her shopping and was walking to the bus-stop to catch a bus back home. Mrs Gan almond shaped eyes scanned her surroundings and inched her way towards the bus-stop she was heading to.

At that juncture, a black motorcycle with two men whizzed out from nowhere and sped towards a panic-stricken Mrs Gan. As audacious as the day, the pillion rider lunged forward and grabbed forcefully Mrs Gan’s Louis Vuitton handbag. He ripped it off her fiercely. Mrs Gan felt the tug and held on tightly to it. Her reaction was to scream at the top of her voice, “Help me! A thief is stealing my handbag!”

Mr Tan, who was Mrs Gan’s neighbor, was walking behind her. He heard Mrs Gan’s cries for help and like a hero to its victim, rushed to her aid. As brave as a lion, he swung his mops and brooms, which he just purchased from NTUC Fairprice smack onto the hapless back of the pillion rider. In that split second, the thief fell onto the road with a thunderous thud. Mr Tan rushed over and pinned the snatch thief down. At the same time, he whipped out his mobile phone and narrated to the police what he had witnessed.

The police managed to arrive in the nick of time. The thief kicked violently trying to break free as he was pushed into the police car. On recovering her Louis Vuitton handbag, Mrs Gan was jubilant and thanked Mr Tan for his kind help and the police officers for their quick response. Moments later and Mrs Gan felt her whole body enter a state of calmness and relaxation as she slumped herself limply onto a nearby bench by the sidewalk.

From their incident, Mrs Gan learnt that she needed to stay vigilant at all times. Mrs Gan was also glad that she had such helpful neighbours like Mr Tan, and hoped to befriend more of them. As for the thief, he had learnt a lesson and that was ‘crime does not pay’.

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Elijah Wee, Singapore

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