WHEN FACED WITH EVIL...

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Since 8 years ago, off and on, I will jog early morning in the area around my apartment complexes. There were never a time that I doubt the safety of that place, in any time of the day..security guards were all over, well lit, there were many early risers who jogged in that area and recently there was a Community Centre built for the 'convenience' of the dwellers in my area.

As usual, this morning, I went out at around 6:30am and I saw a couple already beat me to it. I did a little bit of stretching and started jogging..half way through, I stopped and continued walking instead..a motorbike stopped. He quickly came off his bike and rushed up to me and stopped me and said, "Give me money!". As I was in shock I replied, "I don't have money!" He looked at my wrist and took my hand. I have a gold bracelet on my wrist. Thinking, *please don't hurt or rape me* coz as he was bigger size than me he could have easily done that without me having the energy to fight back. I lifted my wrist and told him, "Here, take it! Just don't hurt me.." He grabbed the gold bracelet and ripped it off my hand. He went back to his bike and took off. I was still in the state of shock and by the time I grasped my breath the guy already split. Yes, I didn't scream, I don't know why, I was so damn scared until I couldn't do anything. A few minutes after, another jogger who was an older man (he didn't see anything that happened), came towards my direction and I stopped him and asked for help. He was shocked that this happened in just a few seconds, he said I should have screamt. I told him I was in shock. He asked me to make a police report, since the police station was just around the corner. He accompanied me to the police station, there was only one officer at that time and it was around 7:00am. I gave him my statement and asked me to go to another police station to report. He told me he didn't have the authority to release 'criminal' report. But he made the phone call to the said police station. He asked me a few questions and damn I didn't see the guy's license number. He told me that there were a few similar cases lately.. I was tongue tight and I couldn't make any request or remark. I was in tears all of a sudden, but it wasn't noticeable when blended with sweat of running..I filled up a report.

The policeman asked me to go home first and to go back there to retrieve my 'report no'. I thanked the old man and went back to my apartment. I broke down. The bracelet was a sentimental value given by my mother. How I was stupid enough to never take that off. Now I paid the price. I texted my bosses because this morning we were supposed to have a 'workshop'. I asked to be excused.

I took a quick shower and then went back to the police station to retrieve the 'report no'. A different policeman now but he was well briefed of the my situation. He said sorry for what happened and made a few phonecalls to the other station where I was supposed to lodge a criminal report. He then gave me the name of the inspector and before I left he said, "Today is not your day maam but thank god you weren't hurt".

I left and made my way to the other station. It was about 15 minute drive away. I parked my car and went to the place specified by the previous officer. I found the place and looked over a group of policeman were having such a great chat over "I don't really care what the topics were". They all had ciggarettes on their hands or smoking away or doing something with the ciggy hanging on their mouths like the 'gangsters/taikor' in Chinese movies. I asked for the officer who was supposed to attend to my case. They looked at my report from the previous police station and asked me to wait for this inspector coz he went out.

I waited and waited and waited....from 9:00am to 10:30am..no sign of the man.

Another 'inspector' asked me what was going on and I repeated my story. He made another phone call and asked me to wait and gave me some excuses. Another guy was a little bit more diplomatic and told me that usually these inspectors were caught in courtroom sessions and I had no choice but to wait for him.

I waited and waited...I was thinking why was I even bother...I just want to get this over and done with. I did the police report so that these police enforcement will keep the peace as they promised during the recent General Election. I want to contribute something to the society by reporting this incident so that people can be more cautious and the authority will not sit down on their asses. I thought we want to eliminate crime....

While waiting, there were people started coming to look for the same guy I was waiting for. I over heard their cases and I got the sudden chill listening to the cases. Holy..what have we become? What happened to the high morale and the 'religious' being that we are? What happened to the 'loving' society that we claimed we are? In my mind I kept on having flashes of the face of man who mugged me this morning. He was evil. I was scared to death.

Finally the man showed up and I was asked to his office and made my statement. I handed to him the piece of my previous report and I was not that talkative. He asked me a few questions and re-typed some of the informations that he gathered from the previous report. He 'promised' if there were any lead...he will call me. I told him, I was just happy to be alive. We both said thank you and I left.

I made my way to the mall nearby contemplating on buying a treadmill instead of jogging out there making my self available to the criminal b******* .

I was mugged twice this month.Another incident was in my blog~~~> UNFORTUNATE . Something was definitely not right...

I came home feeling numb.