Friday, June 04, 2004
i finally found out the number to call the police last night due to an incident.
i was up late last night studying in uni and got home at about 2.30am. when i got home, i was getting ready to sleep. sat in bed with a book when i saw ben rush into the toilet with a huge torchlight. a few secs later, he came out and said he saw a guy crouching down behind a car in our carpark downstairs that was visible from the toilet window. and when he shone the torch at him, he ran off. we knew whose car it was but we didn't know which apartment they were from. and we couldn't possibly go knocking on every door 3 o'clock in the morning. we decided to call the cops and while looking for the number (we didn't want to call 000 cos they put you on hold all the time and this isn't really an emergency), we heard a car horn. we ran to the window and the guy was back!! ben shouted at him and he took off. he looked smallish, like a skinny teenager, with bushy hair. so we called the cops and but we were told we really couldn't do anything cos we really shouldn't touch the car and they can't really report it as a car break-in cos the owners have to do it themselves. i gave them the license plate number and hope they actually contacted the owners. they sent patrol cars around the nieghbourhood pretty fast. cos we saw both cop cars and unlabelled cops cars zipping round. pretty soon but it took them ages to actually get one to stop and check in on the cars... not that they did anything anyway. i keep thinking about the poor owners. they'll get such a shock in the morning when they go to their car and find the doors ajar. we think the guy was trying to hot wire the car and activated the horn instead. if that's the case, at least the car is still here now.
i'm thinking of moving end of this year to north of the river. i think it's safer. apparently there has been arson attacks to some houses on the street behind mine. not that my house is at risk cos it's an apartment block and a lot harder to burn down, but it gives you an idea of the kind of saftey your neighbourhood has. i can't wait to move.
i was up late last night studying in uni and got home at about 2.30am. when i got home, i was getting ready to sleep. sat in bed with a book when i saw ben rush into the toilet with a huge torchlight. a few secs later, he came out and said he saw a guy crouching down behind a car in our carpark downstairs that was visible from the toilet window. and when he shone the torch at him, he ran off. we knew whose car it was but we didn't know which apartment they were from. and we couldn't possibly go knocking on every door 3 o'clock in the morning. we decided to call the cops and while looking for the number (we didn't want to call 000 cos they put you on hold all the time and this isn't really an emergency), we heard a car horn. we ran to the window and the guy was back!! ben shouted at him and he took off. he looked smallish, like a skinny teenager, with bushy hair. so we called the cops and but we were told we really couldn't do anything cos we really shouldn't touch the car and they can't really report it as a car break-in cos the owners have to do it themselves. i gave them the license plate number and hope they actually contacted the owners. they sent patrol cars around the nieghbourhood pretty fast. cos we saw both cop cars and unlabelled cops cars zipping round. pretty soon but it took them ages to actually get one to stop and check in on the cars... not that they did anything anyway. i keep thinking about the poor owners. they'll get such a shock in the morning when they go to their car and find the doors ajar. we think the guy was trying to hot wire the car and activated the horn instead. if that's the case, at least the car is still here now.
i'm thinking of moving end of this year to north of the river. i think it's safer. apparently there has been arson attacks to some houses on the street behind mine. not that my house is at risk cos it's an apartment block and a lot harder to burn down, but it gives you an idea of the kind of saftey your neighbourhood has. i can't wait to move.
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