That don't look like a police line la. But in any case, I read in the papers that people are cutting out the root of the tree for dunno what purpose also. Check this out from The Star.
Visitors getting to the root of ‘scary face’ pinang tree
KEPALA BATAS: The ugly side of Malaysians has surfaced again. (Again? I thought majority of malaysians are born with it?)
Some of the visitors, who came in droves, to Kampung Paya to see the “scary-looking face” on a pinang tree there have cut some of its exposed roots for reasons best known to them.
Telecommunications supervisor Abdullah Baharom, 53, whose family claims to own the palm, is cheesed off by the actions of these people and the unwarranted attention given to the palm.
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GONE MISSING: Abdullah showing some the roots that were cut off from the Pinang tree yesterday morning.
Ever since the tree became “famous” after pictures of it were carried in the media, streams of visitors have come to the village and his home just to see the unusual frond.
The villagers had cordoned off the area around the tree to deter outsiders from trespassing and spoiling it but it still did not stop a few from getting near to it and “defacing” the palm by slicing off some of its roots.
Abdullah does not know why they did this.
“It is against the teachings of Islam. I don’t think there’s anything mystical or weird about the tree. It is just a natural formation,” he said, adding that it had been in the compound for the past 10 years, and that his younger sister was now living at the family home there.
He claimed that some people had also come to pray at the site.
Notwithstanding the debates raging over whether the “scary face” on the tree is a natural phenomenon or a supernatural incident, the village has taken on a carnival atmosphere, with enterprising residents setting up stalls to sell food, snacks, drinks and photographs of the tree to visitors.
You can sit outside the kampung houses to enjoy a bowl of sup gearbox made of ox parts, a plate of chicken rice or some cool ice-cream.
A villager was seen selling bunches of petai from his motorcycle parked near the stalls, while next to him was a woman selling goreng pisang.
Chicken rice seller Abdul Samad Azizan said he had never seen anything like this in the 17 years he has lived in Kampung Paya.
His business has boomed, and he said he was selling about 500 plates of chicken rice daily, which is double the amount he sells at his usual pasar malam venue.
“I decided to sell it here since my house is not far from the tree,” he said.
