Bike gang swoops as security guards sleep

Maiyuu woke up this morning to find his bike has been stolen.

He left it parked outside the front of our condo building last night. He put a chain around one wheel.

The security guard says a woman and two men followed him into the condo compound shortly after he returned about 9pm.

Maiyuu suspects they are a gang which steals bikes. The three concocted a story which they gave the security guard.

‘I have come to pick up my uncle’s ATM card, so I can withdraw some money for him,’ one guy told the security guard, explaining why the guard should let him into the compound.

‘He’s in building number 2,’ he said. That’s where we live.

A typical Thai bullshit story. Doting nephew visits mysterious uncle who is incapable of making a simple visit to the ATM himself.... what are ya mate, lame?

Maiyuu suspects he is the one who cut the chain. A woman aged in her 30s accompanied him. A third guy appears to have done little except wait outside by his motorbike.

Five minutes later, the woman sailed out the condo on the back of my boyfriend’s bike.

‘Oh, the owner let me ride it,’ she told the security guard.

At least that lie was simpler than the family ties nonsense spun by her partner in crime.

The guard says he was suspicious, but at the time did not have time to respond, as tenants were coming and going in their cars. He has to keep an eye on them too.

The condo has security cameras. Maiyuu will ask the office if he can take a look at them, and whether the condo has any insurance policy.

If not, I will have to shell out. Actually, I suspect I will have to pay for a new bike anyway. The one which was stolen cost almost B9000 more than a year ago.

This time, we will take a photograph of the bike, and show it to the guards, so they know we own the thing. They see Maiyuu on his bike several times a day.

He has never loaned his bike to anyone, as he does almost everything alone, but it is asking too much of the guards that they notice such things.

It is much more likely that they will believe some crap about a lazy Thai uncle loaning his nephew his ATM card.

I will talk to the office about tightening up security. If some stranger shows at the gate wanting to meet his uncle, he should call his uncle down to meet him, or at least get him on the phone.

The security guard should take the tenant's name, and ask to see the visitor’s ID card.