I live in Mumbai India, and being
a crowded city one would expect that you can be robbed.
Well poverty is the key thing
that drives people to rob.
That was the notion we all carry,
isn’t it.
India is a large country with a
huge population next to china and people are poor, job opportunities are less,
people are illiterate so thefts are inevitable.
We are extremely careful in Mumbai
while commuting on trains and buses and I am sure many of us would have lost
our wallets in this public transport system in Mumbai.
We had always thought if these
things happen here in Mumbai then it was considered as a normal occurrence.
But what happened to me in a
foreign country was both surprising and hard to believe.
I was travelling from Interlaken
to Zurich Airport by early morning train.
I had to change train at Berne.
When I got down at Zurich Airport
Station, I managed to unload my bags and as I took the escalator I lost my
wallet from my back pocket.
I noticed that I had lost my
wallet but could not do anything as the escalator was going upwards.
I contacted the police personnel
there in the station and was directed to a police station in the station
premises.
I reported the theft and rang up
my banks to block my cards.
I was aghast that I could lose my
wallet in Switzerland.
The Trains were not crowded,
there were less people on the station yet my pocket got picked.
I wonder how the thief did it, as
generally in Mumbai the pick pockets usually operate in crowded locals but here
in Switzerland the thief was so good that despite the fat there were very less
people he managed to con me.
I wonder what makes one rob
others in a place like Switzerland.
It is a country with less
population and everything is so disciplined that I could not believe that I was
robbed.
The police at the Zurich Airport
station confirmed that thieves are very active in this area and they were
alerting the general public about it.
Can we really believe that thefts
occur only in places where there are crowds?
Can it occur where there are more
people?
With my experience it is no, it
can occur anywhere, so guard your things carefully when you travel.
