Thieves ‘borrow’ bike to flee

Hold up: Swee Pai, 60, keeping a close eye on the rest of the chickens at the farm he works at in Sungai Kechil, Nibong Tebal.

NIBONG TEBAL: Eight men who used a chicken farm worker’s motorcycle to transport more than 100 live chickens they stole, returned the machine to the latter after he told them that he needed the bike to “cari makan” (earn a living).

Yeap Swee Pai, 60, said the men entered the farm located within an oil palm plantation in Sungai Kechil here at about 1.30am on New Year’s day and grabbed the chickens, before stuffing them into about 10 gunny sacks.