Python prank backfires on worker


KUALA LUMPUR: A general worker who tried to scare a supervisor by placing a plastic bag containing a 2.74m long python in front of the latter’s house in Bandar Tun Razak has been arrested.

Cheras police chief Asst Comm Mohan Singh said in the 9.40pm incident on Friday, the supervisor saw the 22-year-old man placing the plastic bag in front of his house on the eighth floor of the PPR flats before trying to flee the scene.

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