Gang Arrested at Airport
Perhaps frequent flyers will be interested in this tangled tale of female deception - The plot? - Seemingly straight out of a tacky made for tv movie, with wooden dialogue, wobbling toupees, and acting as believable as a glove puppet production of Macbeth. The protagonists - 1 laptop and 2 middle aged businessmen. The Villains - 3 beautiful women and a team of incorrigible Filipino gangsters.
LaptopThiefdom recently bit the bullet at Malaysia's KL InternationalAirport. Using titillating, provocatively-dressed women as adistraction, a gang of Filipino baggage thieves were finally caught in the act and are now in Sepangpolice custody.
Officials there believe the bandits may have been at theircat-and-mouse game for some time: dozens of notebooks worth hundreds ofthousands of ringgit have been reported stolen from the airportsince KLIA opened its doors in 1998.
The group's M.O. was actually quite simple: They casually went tothe airport (accompanied by their shapely decoys) in search of males carryingbriefcases or laptops, put the women to work (so to speak), andjust walked off with their newest treasures, likely later to betaken apart and sold on the black market.
But just a few days ago, their salad days came to an end, whenplainclothes security personnel literally watched the Philippinenationals carry off the entire heist before they stepped in andhanded them over to police.
While two of the attractive women were busily distracting a 40-year-oldmale passenger and his friend, who were waiting to board a flightto Penang, one of the women lifted the laptop and passed it toher male accomplice, standing nearby. The three, aged 21, 26, and29, were apprehended immediately.
The theft took place in the airport bar, where the would-betheft victim and his friend were having a drink.
Maybe that's one anecdote the two won't be so inclined todiscuss back at the water cooler.
