Sales promoter tried to self-harm, she lost $2k to pickpocket

[FireOpal]

A distraught sales promoter in Jurong West attempted to self-harm after reportedly losing S$2,000 to a pickpocket on Apr. 20 (Saturday).

Stall assistant in distress after being pickpocketed

According to Shin Min Daily News (Shin Min), the incident happened at a stall selling fruit juice machines, which had been set up in front of a provision shop at Block 504.

Eyewitnesses saw a female sales promoter in her 20s squatting on the ground, covering her face with her hands and crying bitterly.

Suddenly, she picked up a fruit knife from the table at the stall and slit her hand.

This shocked passersby, who rushed forward to snatch the knife from her.

One of them was a 55-year-old man, surnamed Zhuo (transliteration from Mandarin), who told Shin Min that he heard the woman was a stall assistant from Malaysia.

He also heard that the money she lost amounted to a week's worth of proceeds for the stall, and some of her own money.


How she got pickpocketed

A passerby, Lin Kunyao (transliteration), 37, told Shin Min that he heard the alleged pickpocket was a man who had squatted beside the promoter's booth and pretended to tie his shoelaces.

And when she wasn't paying attention, the man allegedly stole S$2,000 from her bag, Lin claimed.

"By the time she realised, he was already some distance away, so she called the police immediately," he said.


Not the first time

A 76-year-old resident surnamed Chen (transliteration) told Shin Min that she lost S$500 to pickpockets when shopping at a nearby market two months ago.

She claimed that she was browsing at a stall there when she encountered three middle-aged ladies, one of whom came "very close" to her.

Chen said she had brushed it off in the moment but later noticed S$500 was missing from her bag.

A Chinese medicine store owner interviewed by Shin Min also claimed that a ginseng antler worth S$700 was stolen from his shop a number of years ago.

https://mothership.sg/2024/04/jurong-sales-promoter-pickpocket-money-cut-herself

[jim889]

singpaore cctv everywhere. sure can get caught if poh mata

also huai she carry so many cash

 

[FireOpal]

[FireOpal]

I think those are tiongs professional pickpockets. They roam around wet markets and Saturday Sunday mrng Bazaar stalls area when there are few hundred customers hang around. Easy to look for targets.

why are tiongs and not other races? Cos tiongs are Chinese can mingle into the crowd.

[FireOpal]

singpaore cctv everywhere. sure can get caught if poh mata

also huai she carry so many cash

 

This shocked passersby, who rushed forward to snatch the knife from her.

One of them was a 55-year-old man, surnamed Zhuo (transliteration from Mandarin), who told Shin Min that he heard the woman was a stall assistant from Malaysia.

He also heard that the money she lost amounted to a week's worth of proceeds for the stall, and some of her own money.

[drdoof]

Is the pickpocket a foreigner?