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21st January 2014, 19:00 | #16 |
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| Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken!
No it depends on your route and destination I guess. The boot is checked when you are entering a Hotel, Mall or a MNC building perhaps. In everyday small businesses, like mine, my dad doesn't need to go to any of such places. Its more of visiting a colleague, going into some industrial area, visiting a bank etc and the real risk is theft from the car while parked. Ofcourse if you are going to encounter a situation where your boot will be checked then you have to stay alert or probably get down and get it done. Last edited by drmohitg : 21st January 2014 at 19:01. |
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21st January 2014, 19:57 | #17 |
Senior - BHPian | Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! @Bluevot, Really saddened to know the incident, I hope you recover the cash and the documents at the earliest. By any chance were the notes marked, noted the serial nos. I guess some lessons are learnt the hard way, hope you will ensure that in future to avoid carrying cash as much as possible. IMO the thieves who robbed must have known about the cash stuff and followed the car with a clear motive. Also couldnt understand as to why the wallet was in the briefcase, the safest place would have been on the self body. Storing ATM/CC/DC pins in the wallet - another big mistake. Hope you get the new chip mounted CC if you plan in near future. I know giving suggestions would be far more easy but really unable to put myself in your shoes. In such situations I would have gone bonkers. |
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21st January 2014, 20:05 | #18 | |
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| Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! Quote:
he'd move on to the next "bakra"! | |
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21st January 2014, 21:01 | #19 | |
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The point i want to add is as they have withdrawn money from the A.T.M, you can get the details of time and location of the A.T.M from your bank. Now a days every A.T.M has web cams. So if you ask police to trace the culprits from the web cam footage of the A.T.M that might be handy for you to catch the goons. Regarding the documents dont worry as your dad has already done the F.I.R for the case and lost documents the F.I.R receipt is the most important document to reapply for your lost documents/identity proofs. About the tyre i will say its better to change it rather than putting a extra tube in it. Why take a chance with safety? Indian supreme court ordered to stripe off the sun-films from our cars. So does it really helping? Instead the goons now a days get a clear view of whats inside the car and they can easily make the soft targets. Last edited by Samba : 21st January 2014 at 21:04. | |
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21st January 2014, 21:33 | #20 |
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| Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! Times have changed, no place is what it used to be 20 years back let alone 5 years. Briefcases are always associated with money and documents. Laptop bags for laptops of course. So better to change the bags that you have been traditionally using. Keep valuables in the passengers foot-well or underneath the passengers seat (some cars do utilise that space). |
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21st January 2014, 21:57 | #21 | |||||||||||||||||
Senior - BHPian | Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! Quote:
To be honest I personally don't use and prefer credit card. I myself have a debit card only with the pin stored at some other place. Dad got this card as an offer from the bank when we bought our car. Quote:
I hope someone gets the documents and approach us. Thanks for the agent's number. We will be contacting him tomorrow regarding this. Quote:
I don't think my city's chief minister will do another round of dharna for my case. :P Quote:
It was big mistake from our part to keep the briefcase on display on crowded delhi roads and even bigger to leave the car alone with the briefcase to call the puncture guy. Quote:
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AFAIK it was the credit card and it did not require pin to make payments at least at petrol pumps and malls. We never withdrew cash using credit card so no idea if PIN is required for credit card at ATMs or it is simply swipe and go just like in petrol pumps. Quote:
Its very difficult to spot a puncture shop on the busy outer ring road. My dad could not spot him so he had do walk back for 50-60 meters to call the puncture guy. I even told dad that our car is protected by Honda assure program and he could have simply called Honda helpline and get the job done without stepping out of the car! We will take care in future. I also shared this concern with the SHO & ACP of my area and they told me that such thieves can eye one's house only in the case if someone is a very rich by referring passbook details or having house in a posh locality - which is neither the case with us. Still We will be extra cautious with locking & securing our house from now on. Quote:
I got the glass replaced and power window mechanism is al-right. We will be a bit more careful about the security of our house from now. My dad is a government officer and there were some official files and documents also. Bank accounts includes a salary account with couple of lakhs and two saving account having amount less than a lakh each. My dad will also submit an application to banks to cancel all previously issued cheque books tomorrow. As of now all bank accounts are safe. Quote:
Police will forward request to the concerned bank to preserve the cctv footage of the concerned ATMs from where transaction was made. Quote:
No idea about AAI membership. Can you please throw some more light on this. Quote:
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My dad will use other car in the house for few days and we will keep City parked for next 10-15 days till a new RC is issued. I asked the pucnture guy about the tyre but since the two holes created on the sidewall are very small, he advised to use the tyre as spare after putting a new tube and he also sealed those holes using some seal. You are right regarding the sunfilms. Removal of sunfilms definitely has created lots of problems. Such incidents could be avoided if cars have sun films of specified limits as it was earlier. I will make sure the rear door windows always have the sunshades attached if no one is present at the back. Quote:
The shattered rear window glass now replaced with the new OEM glass. Last edited by bluevolt : 21st January 2014 at 22:19. | |||||||||||||||||
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21st January 2014, 22:36 | #22 |
Senior - BHPian | Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! Just to add - this all happened on a crowded road some 200-300 meters away from the red light/u turn. The average speed of vehicles plying on there would not have been more than 20KMs. You just can imagine the courage of thieves that they did all this in daytime and they were not even fearing several cars/bikes passing on the road! Exact location - outer ring road, near ravidas mandir, shalimar bagh(front of passport office/sector 18 redlight/jail road) where a flyover/metro construction is going on. Last edited by bluevolt : 21st January 2014 at 22:39. |
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21st January 2014, 22:43 | #23 | |
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Not sure if you already had this done - please call the bank(s) and issue stop payment advices for the lost cheques just to make sure they aren't used for any transactions. You can get duplicates for all other documents but will have to spend some time on the procedures/processes. I'm sure you've already done this but just want to call it out - for your reference, make a complete list of all things that were lost, will help track and avoid nasty surprises later especially any documents, cards, etc. Last edited by NPV : 21st January 2014 at 22:50. | |
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21st January 2014, 22:52 | #24 | |
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In such incidences more than the money, the documents lost pinch more. I really hope you get all your documents back much sooner, given the efficiency of our Government departments. -Bhargav | |
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22nd January 2014, 07:42 | #25 | |
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Only positive here is that they did not harm your dad physically. | |
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22nd January 2014, 08:22 | #26 |
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| Gosh!! Bluevolt, I don't know what to say. Glad that no physical harm was done to your dad. Being someone who was born and brought up in Delhi, it pains to see the level it has reached now. I hope our law enforcement wakes up and provides basic security to the people atleast in public places. If these people have the guts to carry out something like this in the busy streets of our capital, I shudder to think how safe are we in our homes. |
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22nd January 2014, 08:50 | #27 |
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| Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! Bluevolt this is indeed very unfortunate. It is a bold robbery especially in daylight. I had heard of this MO of thieves many years ago. Seems with more and more transparency in cars windows thieves can just look in and break in. When the Fiats and Ambys ruled the road. I have myself seen a couple of instances after the thieves made away with the stereo (a cassette player + radio which was a valuable asset of yesteryear) , and everything in the Fiat by simply slicing the windshield rubber away and honestly keeping that on the side without breaking it. Later with Marutis and Zens breaking glass was the better option when AutoCop XS was failry expensive and not all cars had them. At that time I remember the morning a Zen was broken into. The owner was telling all that nothing was there in the car not even his stereo which was a detachable one and he had safely removed it. The angered thief had however slashed his really expensive leather seat covers and broken all the glasses just for revenge. I can't imagine the racket it would have made but no one seems to have heard it break in the dead of the night. |
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22nd January 2014, 09:36 | #28 | |
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I diligently & rather strictly ( to the irritation of many people ), enforce the rule that not even a single small plastic bag be left out in the car even if all it contains is a penny's worth of trinkets. The plain reason is, not to tempt the thief. If his luck is hard and he desperately needs cash for drugs/food/whatever, he wouldn't mind bricking your car to get a hand on it. So, Rule 1: Do not tempt the satan My brother from Mumbai was on official work to Bangalore & he was taking out my Figo for a few days. A fine evening he was returning from work with his phone paired to the DIN system and playing music. At a traffic red light, a person appears from the left and knocks on the window. My brothers lets the glass down & the person informs that he got a bad scratch on the rear done by a truck. Before my brother recovers from shock, a person appears from the right side and knocks on the window. My brother lets down this side of the glass too and this person repeats the story. By the time my brother is done listening to the guy on the right, the guy on the left coolly pockets the LUMIA 920 and is off before my bro realizes it. In a moment's time before he turns his head right, the guy on the right is gone too. Rule 2: Do not get diverted by stranger's claims that you have a puncture,or you have a dent. If you have to inspect, ensure you park safely, take out all the valuables with you, lock the car with emergency lights on and then inspect. Rule 3: If driving alone, never stop at desolate places, unless absolutely necessary | |
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22nd January 2014, 11:00 | #29 | |
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| Re: Briefcase theft from my Car. Rear window broken! Such incidents are becoming very rampant. The best option is to never pay any attention to this. Instead we should only stop the car at a safe location, preferably a police station or known shops. We should also keep our windows rolled up and all the doors locked at all times. I have seen several people drive with their windows rolled down, lucrative to thieves! |
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