‘Jaga kereta’ boys a real menace


File photo of illegal parking attendants directing traffic and asking for fees from visitors to the Snake Temple in Bayan Lepas, Penang.

THREE car-parking incidents went public recently within days of each other, and it is hard not to superstitiously wonder if something in the wind can make people behave oddly at once.

First, there was the elderly citizen who got a compound for parking along the yellow line in Acheen Street, Penang. So unhappy was he that went to the State Assembly building and ranted about it at the top of his lungs, faulting the state government as a whole.

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