Tontos a growing threat to lawmen


  • Letters
  • Tuesday, 02 Sep 2003

In the westerns, the Lone Ranger has a sidekick, Tonto, who follows him everywhere, saving his scalp whenever he gets into a scrap trying to preserve the law. In Malaysia, real-life Tontos exist, but theyhave quite the opposite role. DEVID RAJAH, who went on an operation with Road TransportDepartment officers, gives an insight into how the Tontos operate. 

INSTEAD of helping to serve the law, they assist lawbreakers evade the enforcement officers.  

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