Wednesday June 10, 2009
Britons’ holiday ruined by snatch thieves
WE are two British female tourists in our 40s who have fallen prey to snatch thieves in Kuala Lumpur.
We arrived on Saturday for a three-day stay in the city. On Sunday afternoon as we were walking back to our hotel from the KL Tower, my friend’s shoulder bag was ripped from her by two men on a motorcycle coming from behind.
It was a shocking experience and made us feel both angry and sick to the stomach at such a violation. Since then, we have not felt at all safe and have spent the last two evenings in our hotel room.
It has indeed given us a terrible impression of Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur itself and we cannot wait for our flight out.
Those of you who live here, please petition whoever you need to in order to do something about these types of crimes, especially if you want tourists to keep coming here.
Neither of us will ever come here again, nor will we advise any of our friends or family to do so.
We have been travelling for over a year now in several countries (including South Africa) and have never experienced anything like this before.
I would also like to point out that we are not rich tourists who can afford to lose their possessions.
We worked hard all our lives so that we could take a career break and fulfil an ambition to travel around the world for 18 months.
And when we return home later this year, we will be working hard again.
However, this experience has ruined what so far has been a fantastic trip. We no longer feel safe here and regret that we decided to include this part of the world in our trip.
I know there are no doubt plenty of honest Malaysians and it’s sad that these criminals are giving your country a bad reputation. That’s exactly what they have done.
Please do what you can to deal with this problem so that other innocent tourists do not suffer the same fate.
JULIE & CONNIE,
Kuala Lumpur.
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