Pickpocket on LRT

I have read many news regarding this issue on newspapers and my mother always remind me to be careful when taking the LRT. Ever since i almost lost my mobile to a pickpocket during my taking bus days, i always ensure that i have a hand to check my pockets every few seconds.

Yesterday, a gwai lo (foreigner) boarded the LRT with his luggage and looked quite out of sorts, but i guess that is quite normal for a typical gwai lo to be not familiar. On reaching the next stop, a man standing next to him suddenly knelt down to get either his pants/shoes which was somehow entangled with the gwai lo's luggage and tried to free it before he disembark from the train. Again all seems normal here to me.

When the signal that the doors are closing were sounded, the man got his pants/shoes free from the luggage and he tried to get off the train. The gwai lo then exclaimed, "My wallet!!" when he realized that he had lost his wallet and gave chase for the pickpocket, amazingly the pickpocket jumped back on the train and fortunately the gwai lo also got back on before the door closed. The pickpocket had no choice but to return the wallet to him. The gwai lo after getting back his wallet makes his way back to his luggage saying, "Asshole" to the pickpocket.

The pickpocket who failed his mission covered his face for the entire length to the next station where he disembarked. A short man with an anxious face, perhaps excited by his bad intent. Sigh ...............

Even with so many reported cases, no action was taken to catch these lowlifes. What a great country we have, police are to be deployed to block roads to prevent people from entering the city for fear that there MAY be riot, and not to do what they are supposed/employed to do.