Compiled by RAHIMY RAHIM, C.ARUNO and R.ARAVINTAN
A MAN was labelled a pervert after he was caught on film scaling a fence and stealing women’s undergarments, Sin Chew Daily reported.
CCTV footage showed him climbing over a fence into the front yard of a house near Taman Sentosa on May 24.
The man, in his 50s, was seen browsing through the bras and panties left out to dry before making off with several pieces, all in under one minute.
The victim uploaded the video on social media and warned nearby residents to be wary. It prompted netizens to say they were shocked by his agility.
Many called him a pervert and criticised his behaviour as outrageous.
South Klang OCPD Asst Comm Lim Jit Huey confirmed that they received a report and the police are investigating the case.
> A family in Hubei, China, ended up hatching some 12,000 silkworms at home after their six-year-old wanted to raise the insects to make his own silk blanket, China Press reported.
Caring for the caterpillars was so overwhelming that the mother, known only by her surname Ruan, joked that she “wanted to call the police”.
The family started raising silkworms two years ago and used the silk from the cocoons to make silk fans at home.
When silkworm season arrived this year, her son asked for a blanket made entirely of silk, adding that he wanted to raise the silkworms himself.
As a result, the family ordered 10,000 silkworm eggs online and hatched them along with some 2,000 left over from the season before.
As the silkworms grew larger, so did their appetite, forcing Ruan to forage for more leaves to feed them.
“Every mulberry tree within a 10km radius became my target. Every day, I have to pick 30 to 40 jin (15kg to 20kg) of mulberry leaves,” she said.
Ruan wrote on social media that the insects were constantly eating and leaving droppings behind, and the cleanup was physically and emotionally overwhelming her.
She suggested throwing them away, but the son was adamant about getting his own homemade silk blanket.
Currently, the family keeps the silkworms in their living room. Using discarded cardboard boxes, they built multi-layer silkworm racks reaching up to 1.2m high while separating cocoons and caterpillars.
The silkworms began spinning cocoons from May 14, and they now have more than 5,000 cocoons.
After school, Ruan said her son helps feed the insects, clean up and count the cocoons.
(The above articles are 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 a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
