Day +244 : Government & robbers, who is more efficient?

I am fine today.

My friend bought a new Toyota Vios last year. One morning, while driving in the midst of busy traffic along a road in Puchong, he sensed a car hit his new car at the back. He stopped and talked to the driver who hit his car. The driver said that he was sorry because his attention was diverted while using hand phone.

My friend returned to his car to get paper and pen with the intention to record down some detail of the incident. When he was near to his car, the driver pushed him into the car and threatened him with a knife. Another guy moved into the driver seat quickly and speeded off. He only realized at that time that he fall prey to car robbers.

The robbers took his wallet and forced him to reveal the pin number of his bank card. Considering that the robber might go to withdraw money before dropping him off the car, my friend gave them the correct pin number. In the end, they dropped him off the car unharmed. However, the car, the wallet with all documents in it and all money in bank account were gone :-(

Someone told my friend that the syndicate which was responsible for robbing the car managed to transport the car to Batam, an island off Singapore within one day time, bypassing all custom clearances. “Your car is in Batam now,” the adjuster told him the next day. It was so fast and efficient! If the syndicate could not dispose the car within such as short time, they have to abandon the car due to the risk of being traced by police.

On the contrary, our government needs one year to adjust staff salary due to unpaid leave (Day +106 blog), took four months to deposit cheques (Day +187 blog) and sometime didn’t event bother to deposit cheques (Day +194 blog) issued to it before they were expired; government and robber, who is more efficient?

See you next post :-)