Yesterday, I went to play basketball at a nearby Community Centre(CC). Since, it was in the afternoon we left our bags at a shady area near the basketball court where we could see them. One of my friend who didn't bring a bag along left his wallet,hand phone and keys on the floor beside our bags. After a while he realised that his wallet was gone! We searched around the area to see if it was misplaced. After a while, we decided that it was stolen, we went to the CC's office to report it. Luckily, the CC installed CCTVs around the place, and luckily enough it managed to capture the footage where the thief bent down and reached his hand through the fence to grab my friend's wallet.
The staff at the CC were very helpful and said that they recognised the thief, since he always came and requested for financial help. They called his house and asked him to come down to the CC to return the wallet or else they will call the cops. When the culprit rushed down to the CC, he still had the cheek to deny that he stolen anything!! He insisted that he was only picking up his own wallet. The seinor manager of the CC was very frim and allowed him to see the evidence we had against him. In the end the culprit had no choice but to admit that he had taken the wallet. However, he said that he took all the money and dropped the wallet into the post box! One thing lead to another and after a few long hours we manged to get the post office personel to come and open the mailbox to retive the wallet. That is not the end of the story, the postoffice informed my friend that he is unable to retrive the wallet immediately. He would have to go to the post office to collect it and pay another 20 dollars to retrive it!!
In the end we decided to allow the culprit to leave and not inform the police about this matter. We also informed the CC not to pursue this matter but to remind the person not to do this kind of stuff again.
