Thursday, December 26, 2013

Crime at the Stopover

Today I was at a highway stopover somewhere near Seremban. As I emerged from KFC after taking my lunch, this VERY shady looking fellow sidled up to me, and made some vague sounds to attract my attention. He then produced an expensive-looking phone and offered it to me, presumably for sale.

I shook my head and quickly moved on. A few minutes later as I came out of the washroom, another younger guy came and made the same proposal. As I am pretty sure Samsung has not opened a new line of distribution, these guys had to be trying to sell stolen phones.

The first thought that struck me was that they were stealing them on the spot, so I quickly went back to the KFC to warn my sisters of the impending danger. But it struck me that had they obtained the phones here, they would not risk flogging them at the exact same place for fear of being discovered. They must have stolen it somewhere else, such as Seremban, then brought it out here for resale.

So yea if you want a cheap phone, go to highway stopovers.