Recent Bad Incident

Recent incident narrated by one of my colleague; it goes like this

“It was really late that night when I heard knock on my door. I opened the door with security latch on; it was my neighbor from kerala with a stranger. My neighbor is from kerala half of month he stays here in pune in rental apartment and rest back home. He wasn't looking good at all; not able to speak properly. The stranger introduces himself and told me that he is a taxi driver; and brought him from station, total rent comes out to be 100; but this guy says he only got 80. I looked at my neighbor, he was not in any state to answer or reply. I went inside and brought the difference. I paid the driver 100 Rs. and asked my neighbor about his luggage, the taxi driver told me that he saw only one hand bag and nothing else, he asked me to come out and check his taxi. This taxi driver seems to be a good man. At that time i thought to just take down the taxi number and name and let that man go. Then I take my neighbor's keys and opened the door and kept him on his bed; checked if he wants anything. But he looks like really drunk and not in a state to answer anything. So I decided to go back to my apartment and check with him in morning. I called the owner of apartment to let me know that such thing had happened.
Next day morning, i got important meeting to attend; so left my apartment in rush. Next 2 days i didn't get chance to check with my neighbor. After 2 days in evening i decided to check with him again. So i knocked his door; he was sitting on the bed, still not looking good. Sitting besides him, i narrated him about the incident 2 days back. He was really surprised to hear that, he said he didn't not remember a single thing from that. Then my neighbor told me about the part he remember. As usual he was traveling back from kerala; and there were problems in Maharashtra due to train was burn by some bad people. So after reaching mumbai he decided to leave some late. He found a bus coming to pune. There was one stranger sitting besides him; looks like a good guy, started conversation with him. After half of the journey, that guy started offering some food. But my neighbor refused taking anything. There was one halt in between and the guy brought some tea. Saying that “you have to take this, this is good”. Initially my neighbor refused, but after insisting a lot. He took a sip. But he felt something wrong and thrown rest away. After that he didn't not remember a thing. How he came back, how is in home. That stranger managed to take away his cell, wallet and bag. Kept him with some money.
This doesn't end here. My neighbor hasn't doing well since. He is really sick for 4-5 days. After consulting with doctors and with medical report; it was found out that – he was give large dose of drugs through the tea. He was lucky to survive, since the intake by him was small. If he had in taken that tea. He might not have not made it so far. Still it will take another 2-3 weeks for him to recover back”



At the end he was lucky to survive, i have heard other similar stories where one of guy taken a taxi and then taxi driver taken 2 other strangers saying that he could make some more money. These weren't stranger but planned by that taxi driver, at stop they gave him some food; which again contains heavy dose of drugs. Then these guys stabbed him; taken him to ATM and withdraw money ( he was little awake) and then thrown him out of car. This guy wasn't lucky as above person. He died few days after.
Lots of thing to learn from this
Do not go by private shared vehicle; although it will save your money.
Always go by public transport. In above case since the guy was traveling from a bus. The guy might not get chance to harm him further.
Keep your friends and colleagues informed about your travel.
Never eat any food give by stranger.
Never discuss about your family and purpose of your travel to stranger.
Do not carry lots of valuable when you are planning to travel alone.
Although how careful you are. This world if full of bad people, they will always try to grab money from you. So if somebody tries to attack you, remember one thing - “Life is important, money isn't. You can have money back,not life”.

If you have heard or have similar information. Please do share. I will try to post or link it on my blog.