Extracted from The Star
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Saturday September 2, 2006
Police save worker from bikers
IPOH: A contract worker had his lucky stars to thank when police saved him from being bashed up by a group of Mat Rempits (illegal racers) on Merdeka Day.
In the incident, which occurred at about 5am at Jalan Sultan Abdul Jalil here, the victim had grazed one of the Mat Rempit’s motorcycle causing the machine, with its rider and pillion rider, to fall.
Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Jalaludin Ibrahim said a big group then gathered around the victim, in his 20s, to demand compensation.
“The victim was dragged by the group to a nearby bank’s automated teller machine to withdraw money,” he told a news conference here yesterday.
“However, as the ATM machine was closed, the angry assailant hit the victim on his forehead with a helmet, causing minor injuries.”.
ACP Jalaludin added that a team of policemen, who were on crime prevention rounds, stumbled upon the commotion and managed to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.
“Fifteen people, three of them college students, were picked up,” he added, noting that the illegal racers had been remanded for three days until tomorrow.
To a question, ACP Jalaludin said the group tested negative for drugs. He also said the group would be charged with rioting and gang robbery.
On another matter, ACP Jalaludin said police were looking for two men in their 30s to assist in investigations into the robbery of three Oriental Daily journalists at their office at Jalan Onn Jaafar here on Aug 25.
Those with information are urged to contact the nearest police station.
In the 5.45pm incident, two men, one of them armed with a Rambo knife, had robbed the journalists of their cash and valuables.
A female crime reporter also suffered minor injuries when she was punched by one of the robbers.
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It is clearly stated in the report, Mat Rempits. I wonder why they even had capital letters on their nicknames. We graze them, we get beaten up. They graze us, we also get beaten up. Merdeka? What kinda merdeka are we celebrating?
