Crying with joy over spilled rice

Reaping from mishap: A passer-by collecting the rice spilled from the truck onto Jalan Bukit Tengah in Bukit Mertajam.

MOTORISTS, passers-by and workers from nearby factories clambered over each other to collect rice which spilled onto the road after the driver of a 14-wheeler jammed on the brakes to prevent a collision with a car in Penang.

The driver, who wanted to be known only as Liu, 46, said he also swerved his vehicle and this caused some of contents of the 20-tonne rice consignment to spill onto the road in Jalan Bukit Tengah, Bukit Mertajam, at about 4pm on Monday.