Disruption in the Situation
Friends and Family gather around. Are you ready for a robbery mystery? The let's begin!
It all started about one month ago when Hannah noticed that her ATM card had gone missing. She tried to go in and get the card deactivated, but the bank was closed because of Idul Fitri (end of Ramadhan). When the bank finally opened, Hannah and I went in and cancelled her card. Everything was back to normal... or so we though.
A few days later (maybe it was a week later, I can't remember), Hannah went to the bank to withdraw some money. This in itself was unsual because we usually withdraw money from my account, and hold our savings in Hannah's. When Hannah came home after going to withdraw money, she reported that it had all been stolen! The bank satment said that over a course of two weeks, someone had slowly withdrawn Rp10,000,000 from her account. That's the same as $1,000!
We were both shocked. Everyone in the teacher's house discussed the matter, and reasoned that the card must have been stolen during school hours, while we were all teaching. Someone must have gone into the teacher's room, rumaged through Hannah's things, taken her ATM card, and COPIED the PIN number from its hidden location. Clue number one: Hannah's card was the only thing that went missing, and her PIN was hidden in a very deep and practically inaccessable part of her wallet. The fact that the thief took only the card, found the PIN, copied it, and put it back in the exact same spot, highly suggests this: that this was an inside job, and it was pemeditated.
As it turns out, this is not the first time something has gone missing from teachers at EF. Wade reported that almost since the beginning things have gone missing. Wade had money stolen form his office. Someone lifted up his briefcase, looked under a stack of papers, and unwrapped a wad of paper used to disguise his wallet, then took not all, but only some of the money there (Rp300,000). Some also stole one of the Indonesian teacher's handphones, and others have had bits of money and things taken from inside the teacher's room. Contracts had also been stolen from teacher's desks, and not long ago someone deleted a rather significant number of files from Wade's computer.
Interestingly, one of the office girls whom we shall call "Annie", admitted to Wade later that she had deleted the files from Wade's computer. It was also generally accepted that Annie was the one who stole the contracts, though no one can say why. Annie is the younger sister of the two Women that own EF and the rest of the block that EF sits on.
Now, when Louise heard of the money that had been stolen from Hannah's account, she later was having a casual conversation about it with some of the people downstairs. She mentioned to Annie that money had been stolen, and said "Why would someone do that?" as we often ask rhetorically. "Yeah, I know" is a common response, or "Yeah, I can't believe that, who would do such a thing?" Typically the response you get is not "Maybe the person was trying to cause a disruption, like in the political situation," which is exactly how Annie responded. Two points toward Annie as the culprit.
This concludes part one of a two part series. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion next time on "Disruption in the Situation".
-Nick
It all started about one month ago when Hannah noticed that her ATM card had gone missing. She tried to go in and get the card deactivated, but the bank was closed because of Idul Fitri (end of Ramadhan). When the bank finally opened, Hannah and I went in and cancelled her card. Everything was back to normal... or so we though.
A few days later (maybe it was a week later, I can't remember), Hannah went to the bank to withdraw some money. This in itself was unsual because we usually withdraw money from my account, and hold our savings in Hannah's. When Hannah came home after going to withdraw money, she reported that it had all been stolen! The bank satment said that over a course of two weeks, someone had slowly withdrawn Rp10,000,000 from her account. That's the same as $1,000!
We were both shocked. Everyone in the teacher's house discussed the matter, and reasoned that the card must have been stolen during school hours, while we were all teaching. Someone must have gone into the teacher's room, rumaged through Hannah's things, taken her ATM card, and COPIED the PIN number from its hidden location. Clue number one: Hannah's card was the only thing that went missing, and her PIN was hidden in a very deep and practically inaccessable part of her wallet. The fact that the thief took only the card, found the PIN, copied it, and put it back in the exact same spot, highly suggests this: that this was an inside job, and it was pemeditated.
As it turns out, this is not the first time something has gone missing from teachers at EF. Wade reported that almost since the beginning things have gone missing. Wade had money stolen form his office. Someone lifted up his briefcase, looked under a stack of papers, and unwrapped a wad of paper used to disguise his wallet, then took not all, but only some of the money there (Rp300,000). Some also stole one of the Indonesian teacher's handphones, and others have had bits of money and things taken from inside the teacher's room. Contracts had also been stolen from teacher's desks, and not long ago someone deleted a rather significant number of files from Wade's computer.
Interestingly, one of the office girls whom we shall call "Annie", admitted to Wade later that she had deleted the files from Wade's computer. It was also generally accepted that Annie was the one who stole the contracts, though no one can say why. Annie is the younger sister of the two Women that own EF and the rest of the block that EF sits on.
Now, when Louise heard of the money that had been stolen from Hannah's account, she later was having a casual conversation about it with some of the people downstairs. She mentioned to Annie that money had been stolen, and said "Why would someone do that?" as we often ask rhetorically. "Yeah, I know" is a common response, or "Yeah, I can't believe that, who would do such a thing?" Typically the response you get is not "Maybe the person was trying to cause a disruption, like in the political situation," which is exactly how Annie responded. Two points toward Annie as the culprit.
This concludes part one of a two part series. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion next time on "Disruption in the Situation".
-Nick
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