How many of you have experience robbery and theft in the Philippines?

It is sad that one does not feel safe going out anymore. You keep your bag as close to your body in fear of it being snatched. When you are in the bus or train, you keep looking at the other passengers if they look like snatchers or not LOL. That is how I feel sometimes especially commuting late at night. If these things should happen to me,(God forbid!) I'd cry and scream my lungs out! LOL

Two weeks ago, my husband's plane ticket which was placed inside a white envelope was pickpocket from the back pocket of his pants. maybe the pickpocket thought that the envelope contained cash. After an hour and before the plane left, the ticket was returned to the ticket clerk.

My phone was stolen 4 years ago when i was walking in a side walk in Angeles City, Pampanga. It was my first encounter and hope it will be the last. I don't know what to do that time. I borrowed another phone few minutes after it was stolen but it was turned off. I went home sad and told my mom what happened. She was a bit angry but what can we do. It was lost. It's sad to think that others will steal just to have money.

well really its not really safe wherever we are. my sister and i was just sleeping at the house. one rainy evening somebody went inside our house and take our TV, my bag was totally dis array and my watch was also taken wt my money. good thing my cp was under my pillow. and i thank God those robber didnt hurt us. i dont know we didn't wake up dat night our sleep was so sound. maybe there is something that they spray wt us. God is still good atleast my sister and was safe. material things can easily be replace.

When I was in first year college on my way to school in UST, a holdupper approached me while I was waiting for a ride in Cubao. He took my wallet, my watch and my bracelet. What made me so afraid was when he asked me if I am Chinese. It was during that time that kidnapping was so popular. I even had a Chinese classmate who was almost kidnapped.

oh...i am sorry to hear that... i havent gone through that...sorry, i cant give your advise... good luck to you..

I have not experienced any theft since I am always careful about myself. I just moved into a new ladies dormitory three weeks ago. The previous dormitory where I used to live has been breaked in by some burglars last August and February. I am worried and can't sleep that well as I don't feel safe anymore thats why I move into a new dorm.

[i]I was always paranoid before when I will be in Manila because of those news I've heard from friends and on TV..I was a victim in Negros before, but I had only 10p in my little wallet and ID..LOL! I had an office mate before who lost around 20thousand in MRT when he was sent by the school to attend a seminar, good thing, he didn't place all his money in that envelop...Sad! I can just imagine how expert these people are![/i]

Last week my phone was stolen at my boarding house. Two of them inquired and so I accomodate them and they told me they will transfer the next day. After talking quite some time they left and few minutes after I cant find my phone. Pity me I wasnt careful enough of my thing.

Luckily, I've never had anything stolen from me or snatched from me. Although my sister is pretty unlucky when it comes to these sort of things. When she was in college, some dude tried to rob her and her friend while they were walking along the street near their school - she ran so fast, I laugh too hard when she told her story. I know I shouldn't have but she was laughing herself so I couldn't help it. Then she had her cellphone stolen while she was riding the jeepney - she really shouldn't have put it in her loose pocket. Thanks for the response on my discussion!

The worst I ever experienced is losing the company issued laptop during one of the seminars I am attending, and believe me, in a supposed security proofed room of a 5-star hotel in Makati. The thief appeared as one of the service/security crew to us and as one of the participants to the hotel staff. The meeting room is locked by hotel personnel when everybody is out of the room and there are surveillance cameras monitoring the hallway. We are confident that the place is secured enough thus we left most of our things in the room when we take our lunch. To our surprise the crime perpetrator was able to walk away with five laptops, three mobile phones (left for charging) and a digital camera (the thief either failed to notice the LCD projector or may not have idea how much the gadget costs). The hotel paid the purchase cost of all the lost items but never the value of photos and documents we lost in the laptops.

I've only experience once and I promise myself that I will never fully trust anyone who I do not know. It happen when I went on some computer shop then a guy tells me that hes looking for a man who rapes his sister but I ask him if he had pictures on what hes looking to but he can't show me anything related to the guy hes looking for. He ask me to go with him and to face the raped girl and his mother just to be sure that I'm not the one he's looking for, then there was a man, his accomplice approach us and we go with him on a deeper side of the street. They look at my I.D. and inspect my bag to make sure that I do not have any deadly weapons, how come I will bring deadly weapons if I'm studying. Then later on he ask me to give to him my cellphone then he will take me to the mother of the girl who they said was raped. After all the ruckus I've realized that they are hold uppers roaming around on that area, so I refuse on giving him my cellphone. Then the other guy that approaches me and look for my identity cards threatened me if I refuse to give my cp. I've come to a plan to run but nervous comes first in me that I had to give him my cp. After I give it. The man who ask me to come to the mother of said raped girl ask me to go with him and my cp was on the other guy. I go with him then there was a man on a motorcycle approach us, another accomplice, then the both of them ride on the motorcycle and I've never see their faces any more and my cell phone.