Man sets car on fire after being bullied by peer


Compiled by QISTINA SALLEHUDDIN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

UNABLE to endure being bullied any more, a man in Sitiawan, Perak, allegedly set his bully’s car on fire and was later arrested, Sin Chew Daily reported.

Police arrested the 23-year-old suspect, who works as a wireman, and obtained a three-day remand order at the Magistrate’s Court in Seri Manjung.

According to Manjung OCPD Asst Comm Hasbullah Abd Rahman, the suspect was upset at being bullied by one of his friends.

The man resorted to setting fire to a car that belonged to one of his bully’s family members, ACP Hasbullah said.

CCTV footage of the incident shows a masked man arriving alone at a house in Kampung Koh just past midnight on March 30.

The masked man smashes a car parked outside before setting the vehicle on fire.

As the incident was discovered in time, no one was injured.

Police are investigating the case under Section 435 of the Penal Code for mischief by fire.

> A peculiar scene unfolded involving a fleet of nine sewage trucks decorated with flowers led by a Mercedes-Benz sedan in Anhui, China, Sin Chew Daily reported.

At the helm of the entourage was Pan Haonan, a man working in the sewage industry who went to pick up his bride for their wedding.

After getting engaged, Pan proposed using a fleet of sewage trucks as their wedding convoy, and his bride-to-be happily agreed.

Pan, who studied film and television, joined his father’s sewage business after graduation.

Driving a sewage truck as part of his job, he said has never been ashamed of his profession.

“Even though our job is the dir­tiest and the smelliest, the money we earn is clean,” Pan said.

The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.

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