Posted by CharlieBaliBear on Wednesday, 20. January 2010 at 17:12 Bali Time:
In Reply to: Bag Snatch Warning posted by Carmen on Wednesday, 20. January 2010 at 16:50 Bali Time:
This is the first time in ages I have heard of a bag being snatched from a pedestrian but for the past year we have had bag snatchers that attack people on motorcycles quite regularly - pulling them off their bikes. We've had a lot of these indictments reported in our expat paper (The Bali Advertiser), nearly every issue. One article claimed one of these thieves was shot in the leg by a police officer while fleeing the scene and another mentioned the case of a girl who had to have her jaw reconstructed (they stole 100,000rp from her bag). My husband now keeps his bag in his motorbike rather than around his shoulder and when we moved here he stopped my from carrying one for such reason (thus the reason he carries a manbag).
Hope you are recovering well and sorry for your ordeal, thanks for warning others, I forget that people that visit this Island don't read what we read, it seems that all the Australian news about Bali is about Terrorists (Which we never seem to get that same news here).
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