70 kayaks hit Royal Belum, and Murphy's Law takes over

A mass of kayaks ready at Pulau Banding Public Jetty at Royal Belum State Park in Perak.

Murphy’s Law really did come from a man named Murphy – Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr (1918–1990), an aeronautics engineer.

During an experiment in 1949, something kept going wrong. He eventually discovered that some of the gauges had been wired backwards.