WARNING - when in KL

> WARNING - when in KL
>
> PUSH-POCKET IN KUALA LUMPUR
>
> I am sure you all have heard of 'pick pocket'.
> A new trend 'push pocket'.
> Read on.. for your own good
>
> A few days ago a new type of crime has surfaced in town.
> It goes something like this:-
> Somebody slips a hand-phone into your pocket, sometimes it could be
> just a wallet with an identity card and a few ringgit.
>
> A few minutes later, the 'owner' comes up and confronts you, the
> 'thief '. He makes a big commotion that you stole his stuff.
>
> You, caught unaware, are then pulled aside by the 'owner' for a
> settlement. You are intimidated and threatened that if you do not pay
> up the police will be brought in.
> If you pay up, this 'owner' lets you go.
> If not, the police are brought in.
>
> Another strange thing is that there always seems to be a 'witness' to
> your 'theft'.
>
> I am told this often happens to foreigners at the Kuala Lumpur
> International Airport (KLIA) or even at LRT trains. Given that you're
> 'guilty until proven innocent' as far as the Malaysian police are
> concerned, I understand some poor people are in jail for these
> 'offences'.
>
> At the KLIA, the 'owner' throws his hand-phone and wallet with the few
> ringgit notes into the luggage trolley of a just arrived passenger.
> The drama unfolds a few minutes later. The real culprit has easily
> convinced our Malaysian police to arrest the real victim (if he has
> not paid up the 'settlement' demand).
> This is a very serious matter.
>
> This is another form of extortionists operating in broad daylight.
> They are disgusting criminals who will do anything to rob and steal.
> The sickening part of the whole scenario is that unless you pay the
> 'quoted settlement' money, they will put you in real trouble by
> calling the police.
>
> The real culprit gets back his hand-phone and wallet but the real
> victim ( i.e. could be any one of us) is thrown into the police lock
> up and charged in court.
> So do be very careful, otherwise you may end up as a 'thief'
> as you have no way to prove your innocence.
> The best prevention to this crime is not to have pockets in your
> trousers.... .wear a chettiah belt around your waist instead.
> Pass it on.....
> let more people be aware
> of such things around them.
>
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George Carlin

Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent...and so very appropriate.

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ' I love you ' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

Email Tracking

Please read the following and pass on

E-MAIL TRACKING

Here is something everyone should read and take the advice. If you don't, you’re

hurting yourself and your email buddies.

By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com and/or

www.truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just

that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites.

Advice from Snopes.com: Very important!

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' (or however many) of

your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, you'll see something

funny on your screen after you send it, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail

tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you

forward to.

The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get

lists of 'active' E-Mail addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.

Even when you get emails that demand you send the email on if you're not ashamed

of God/Jesus.... that’s E-mail tracking and they're playing on your conscience. These

people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them.

Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease - “how

would you feel if that was your child"....E-mail Tracking!!!

Ignore them and don’t participate!

2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are

similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the

little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most

cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and

'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active EMail

accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favour by sending this

information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be

rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you

know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favour and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings

regardless how inviting they might sound!… or make you feel guilty if you don't!... it's

all about getting email addresses - nothing more!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT!Instead, you

will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus attached! Plus, you

are helping the spammers get rich! Let's stop making it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Government, or any other organization -

i.e. Escom Rates, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and

full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you’re

just helping the Email trackers.

Please read the full story here:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp