Update :
The Star newspaper carried a report on the same taxi today.But funnily the reporter or stringer mentioned that the driver was ambushed by police for being a firearms runner who was waiting for a buyer to turn up.
Strange indeed.
Either the Malay tabloid reporter doesn't understand English or The Star reporter has a poor command of Malay as well as English,for this to happen.
Putting myself in their shoes
I presume if the Malay reporter heard wrong it,he probably misheard runner as robber.And cooked up a sensational story to go with it.
In The Star reporters case,if he is proven to have muddled up the report,I dare say,he didn't understand much English or had a poor command of Malay,thus in his haste he simply submitted the report to the blur norther editor who accepted it without qualms.
Epic fail!
Unless one is proven correct,please disregard the Harian Metro article below as well as todays The Star newspaper report, for the time being,as incompetently fabricated junk that's half fantasy,part truth stuffed with many helpings of unbelievable lies by reporters so hard of hearing.
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This was not reported in the English newspapers but a in Malay tabloid.
By the time a report hits the newspapers,it would mean that many many crimes would have been committed already.
Not by him alone,there are bound to be others who have gone down a similar path.
Not surprising since there are too many for comfort bad apple taxi drivers in Penang,who also happen to be sex crazed maniacs behind the wheel.
Contrary to what that CM with a bad hairdo,may want Singaporeans to believe,I do know a number of 'chicken' mainlanders who won't travel out at night for fear of getting their cars hijacked.Ask them out and they'll tell you pointblank that they are scared cos they don't wanna risk getting waylaid and robbed. Malay people from the mainland,like to enquire if a certain area they are not familiar with has, cases of...of all things stolen car tyres
Just this year a local girl got kidnapped from a Jln Masjid Negeri petrol station toilet after a night out.She appeared hours later in a daze and unable to recall what had happened to her.The most horrifying part was that she was daringly dragged from the toilet and kidnapped in full view of many members of the public.
Ever heard reports of a kereta sapu (illegal taxi) operator raping his passengers before.How many victims he had before the monster was finally caught.
Let's not just talk about taxi drivers,the inner city is simply not safe anymore.
A poor washerwoman got bludgeoned to death for a few dollars she had in her pocket while walking home.This occured this year too.
Old people who used to sell newspapers on their own,now have more than one companion beside them.Nobody leaves their doors open anymore.
Even the shop that sells prayer paraphernalia opposite 1st avenue mall nows carries on their craft behind closed gates.In the past,their gates were left wide open.
The pork wholesalers behind Chowrasta market never open once daylight has past today,when they used to stay open till 11pm last time.
Past horrific cases include a 2009 murder at Prangin Mall and a 2010 paedophile kindergarten owner who was spotted entering the school premises even after he was brought to book.
I myself had the misfortune of being cornered in the taxi years ago,by a driver who was adamant I had to down two pills inside his taxi,as he sincerely wanted to 'improve'my complexion.It was probably an ulterior motive to rape.I practically had to yikkity yakkaty yak,talk my way out of it.Thank goodness,the journey ended with nothing untoward happening to me as he wasn't the agressive kind.
Our taxi drivers here are crooks.They wait like vultures and charge you a bomb.Their rates are the highest in the country.There are plenty of illegal taxis,even operating under the auspices of the airport limousine counter.Please,do me a favour,if you arrive here by flight,try to arrange for transport that is arranged by the hotel.
Yet they have to resort to crime for reasons best known to themselves.And rape just to satisfy their lust.
So to,the fella that shares the same hairdresser as his father,you have got to be joking.Lots of us prefer to stay at home and not travel out past midnight,after 10 in prai is a no no,cos the state is increasingly unsafe,didn't he know?
Read on after the first article,as I unearthed a first hand account of a violent incident on the Penang Bridge
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Polis Pulau Pinang tahan pemandu teksi dan rakan yang aktif samun guna pistol
Harian Metro 30th september 2011
GEORGE TOWN: Polis Pulau Pinang menahan seorang pemandu teksi dan rakannya yang dipercayai aktif menyamun bersenjatakan pistol dalam operasi di Lebuhraya Tun Dr Lim Cheong Eu, di sini malam tadi.
Ketua Polis Pulau Pinang, Datuk Ayub Yaakob berkata, pihaknya turut merampas dua pucuk pistol jenis Browning dan Walther daripada kedua-dua lelaki terbabit dalam operasi 11.45 malam itu.
"Pemandu teksi berusia 38 tahun dan rakannya, 58, berada dalam teksi ketika ditahan dan hasil siasatan mendapati mereka sedang merancang untuk melakukan jenayah samun," katanya kepada media, di sini hari ini.
Beliau berkata polis menemui kedua-dua pucuk pistol terbabit yang cuba disembunyikan masing-masing di tepi pinggang dan belakang badan.
Katanya modus operandi mereka ialah dengan mengambil penumpang terutama pelancong asing, sebelum membawanya ke kawasan yang agak tersembunyi sebelum disamun. - Bernama
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ROBBED BY MAT REMPIT! DAMN IT! Date : 10th Dec 2006
At approx 4.00, we started our journey to Pacific Mall, Perai to meet up
with 2 friends who were supposed to pick us up and head to Cameron
Highland.
Towards the last 200m of Penang bridge, we saw a grey colour Satria in
front of us turned into the fast lane. We then realized there was a
helmet lying on the floor in the middle of the slow lane. We couldn�t
avoid the helmet and ran over it.
The helmet got stuck beneath the front part of the car.
It was around 4.30 am then. We had to continue driving as we couldn�t
stop on Penang Bridge. As soon as we exit from Penang Bridge, we decided
to stop by the roadside because the friction and noise caused by the
helmet was too great. As we slowed down, one motorcycle with 2 Malay guys
approached us. We stopped the car and my dad went down to check on the
helmet which got stuck under the car.
Out of a sudden, more than 20 over Malay guys, all on motorcycles
approached our car out of nowhere with very angry faces. They surrounded
the front and side perimeter of our car.
We thought they were after the helmet that we ran through and we
apologized to them. They shouted at us to get out of the car. Panicked,
we locked the car. One of the guys started hitting the driver seat
windscreen with his helmet and smashed the windscreen. They then unlocked
the car. One guy grabbed my handbag which I�ve placed near to the
gearbox. The other guys opened the right door behind the driver seat and
grabbed my sister�s bag pack. At that very same moment, they threw a
whole lot of an unidentified powder (which we later find out that it
might be sulfur) which caused us to lose our vision and suffocate.
Another guy opened the back door on the left and start grabbing my
friend�s waist pouch but to no avail. They gave up and sped away.
Later after the incident, my dad told us that as soon as he got out of
the car, he saw 2 guys approaching and shouted to him about the helmet.
When he is facing the guys, they shouted that they want bag. He is scared
for the safety of the girls; therefore, he held both his hands up to
indicate �slow down and I�ll give you�. That was when they started to
surround him until he has no space to move and snatched off his wallet
from his back pocket. My dad then made a turn to have a look at the girls
and at that instance; he was attacked with the powder which caused him to
lose his vision and breath.
We immediately called the police after the gang sped away. We also called
our friends who were nearby. Before the police arrived, a few of the
motorbikes actually turned back and waited under some trees after the
exit of the Penang Bridge, waiting for their next victim. One of them
came quite near to us and looked at us as if telling us �Poor fellas,
what can you do to us!�
It all happened in less than 2 minutes. In this incident, we lost
approximately RM 3500 including cash, hand phones, a digital camera, a
smashed windscreen, and a damaged interior of the car.
Worse, all four of us were traumatized by the incident. We could have
lost our lives.
While we were lodging police report at Balai Polis Perai, another girl
came to lodge a police report at the same police station. She too was
followed and robbed by a group of 20 over Malay guys on motorcycles, whom
the police suspected were committed by the same gang.
The policemen who have came to us and whom we met at the police station
seems to be aware of the so-called Mat Rempits and what they have been
doing, and they pitied us with what happened. One of them even commented
that �we were lucky that they did not sprayed chilly powder instead�.(
this is what they can do-empathy)
We also need to highlight that we arrived at the police station at
approximately 5.30am. The entire report process took us around 6 hours
which was also ridiculous.( where is the Barisan rep, where is the MCA
rep?, where is tw direc
