maY be theY weRe jusT admiRing youR caR...whaT kinD do yOu drivE?....me thinKs KenyaNs we haVe becOme so ParaNoid..asi!!

Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance.Eccle 8:1

We cant stop living life,life has to go on regardless of all the insecurity,do people stop driving cars because they can get an accident? if you are carjacked its just bad luck but dont let the fear stop you from living and enjoying life.

Everything happens for a reason.

@ $Billz,

Leaving your car at home increase my chances of getting jacked so let's encourage all people to use their cars.... sadly that's what safety in numbers has come down to in Kenya

ili iwe funzo...

hi guys,

so,which is better...leaving the private car at home and getting hijacked in a mathree or driving your car and getting carjacked in it?

the probablility of getting hijacked in a mathree is just the same as in the private car...and it is more traumatising when it happens in a mathree...you know the reasons.


NEVER TALK OF A RHINO IF THERE IS NO TREE NEAREBY - ZULU PROVERB

Mimi whenever I'm at home I make sure that I carry a mtoo with me,and let everyone know that I would not hesitate to use it. It is unfair to be so helpless while these gun-trotting goons have a field day. Fight back fire with fire.


When in doubt,follow the money.

@ Luttz,I like your ideas about getting European makes...but I dont see ur point when it comes to insurance. My reasoning being that when ur dead,insuarances don't matter.

My solution to this matter is simple...and most people would be out of harms way if they practised it. What I do whenever I'm in Kenya is to make sure I'm indoors before it gets dark. If I'm going hanging,I get there earlier than I would otherwise want to...If the club isin't open early (and most aren't),I find a pub nearby where I can drive 2 minutes and I'm there. E.G. Close to Carnivore is the lang'ata shoppi.

Also I try to only go to places where they have accomodation....so that when I get tired at say 2am....I go from the club to the ka-room....which I pay for as soon as I arrive to avoid a situation of 'rooms sold-out'. The point is to kabisa minimize walking or driving around when it's dark unless it's an emergency. Now if Murugu had practised this,he wouldn't be driving around at 3am.


'All they see is my glory...they don't know my pain. Nothing good comes easy in life.'
- Multibillionaire Nelson Muguku Njoroge

@Limuruboy

Interesting.... but i dont know how practical it is to comply with getting home before dark all day of your life.... or having to sleep out when you are late...... in some instances you will have office functions lets say,which you cant control,you will have friends doing parties like farewells,the matangas that take hours etc,you will have relas meetings etc,you will have business meeting that will end at 9pm depending on what line of business you are in,sometimes i know there have been people working till 10pm in the night,really,what are these supposed to do? sleep in the office,or at the relas,or at their friends? i mean,how do you go to a farewell party for a friend which ends at 10 - 11pm and end up sleeping there? Watoto wakiamka watasema baba au mama yuko wapi? Utaambia bibi ulienda kulala wapi? ati kwa hoteli ulichelewa kwasababu soccer iliisha saa sita? aaaaiiih.......

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

The thing about the jackers plucking your licence plate and waving it at you is a real cracker.....ha ha ha. Of course un less the car is yours.

anyway very little you can do after the basics. My take is;

If you have to drive a Toyota after 6pm or on weekends,let it be a battered KE 70 or AE 91,

If you are in traffic jams,especially jioni ( and I would like to single out juja road,just after Airforce towards town,Outering road and even Limuru road) roll up your windows - woo unto you if you don't have A/C but I can promise you the cold tip of an AK 47 on your neck or the mere sight of one is more than you can handle. A friend was a victim- they took the money he had in his upper shirt,his mobile phone,his wife's cellphone and Kshs. 500 and just when they thought they guys were done,the boys asked to be pitishiwad the meat that was in the car. Wale tumegrow up Eastlando tunajua vile ni rahisi ku identify nyama hat kama iko wrapped.

keep yout trunk clean,coz you may have to ride in there and if you can,always have an ever charged (money and battery) mobile phone safely hidden in there. You may once find it very useful because the jackers will strip of your regular phone before they book you in there. That SMS from the trunk can assist you but then you need to be careful especially if your CD player was on at the time of hijack because the mobile phone's interference if detected will be sure to earn you some lead or a nasty sexual experience,just to punish you.

It may be ugly but mark your car,I'm sure you have seen KAT...spread over the sides,hood and trunk of a car. Sometimes even on the roof. This is good for some makes such as the Toyota DX,G-Touring e.t.c Afterall the cars are already ugly even without the markings.

And if you are a snake charmer,make sure you leave a viper kwa area ya pedals......


What a bam bam?

@bambam/njung'e - install seat belt kwa boot (cushioned boot belts) in case of a bumpy ride.

@Limuruboy,I agree but being home before dark is not sustainable,again some of us as Wendz puts it cannot sleep out without raising lots of obvious questions.

@ Ric

I should be getting an old one too to be able to move around disguised.

The other day afriend of mine left his buddies and galfriend having abeer and stepped out of the bar to make a phone call,thats was in South C,Spuds to be exact. The boys put him in the trunk and rest is history. They later dropped him at Mlolongo at 4am,too confused to differentiate North from South,with a broken jaw. One can never tell when the guys strike.