ROBBED BY MAT REMPIT! DAMN IT!

ROBBED BY MAT REMPIT! DAMN IT!

Date : 10th Dec 2006

At approx 4.00, we started our journey to Pacific Mall, Perai to meet up with 2 friends who were supposed to pick us up and head to Cameron Highland .

Towards the last 200m of Penang bridge, we saw a grey colour Satria in front of us turned into the fast lane. We then realized there was a helmet lying on the floor in the middle of the slow lane. We couldn't avoid the helmet and ran over it.
The helmet got stuck beneath the front part of the car.

It was around 4.30 am then. We had to continue driving as we couldn't stop on Penang Bridge. As soon as we exit from Penang Bridge , we decided to stop by the roadside because the friction and noise caused by the helmet was too great. As we slowed down, one motorcycle with 2 Malay guys approached us. We stopped the car and my dad went down to check on the helmet which got stuck under the car.

Out of a sudden, more than 20 over Malay guys, all on motorcycles approached our car out of nowhere with very angry faces. They surrounded the front and side perimeter of our car.

We thought they were after the helmet that we ran through and we apologized to them. They shouted at us to get out of the car. Panicked, we locked the car. One of the guys started hitting the driver seat windscreen with his helmet and smashed the windscreen. They then unlocked the car. One guy grabbed my handbag which I've placed near to the gearbox. The other guys opened the right door behind the driver seat and grabbed my sister's bag pack. At that very same moment, they threw a whole lot of an unidentified powder (which we later find out that it might be sulfur) which caused us to lose our vision and suffocate. Another guy opened the back door on the left and start grabbing my friend's waist pouch but to no avail. They gave up and sped away.

Later after the incident, my dad told us that as soon as he got out of the car, he saw 2 guys approaching and shouted to him about the helmet. When he is facing the guys, they shouted that they want bag. He is scared for the safety of the girls; therefore, he held both his hands up to indicate 'slow down and I'll give you'. That was when they started to surround him until he has no space to move and snatched off his wallet from his back pocket. My dad then made a turn to have a look at the girls and at that instance; he was attacked with the powder which caused him to lose his vision and breath.

We immediately called the police after the gang sped away. We also called our friends who were nearby. Before the police arrived, a few of the motorbikes actually turned back and waited under some trees after the exit of the Penang Bridge, waiting for their next victim. One of them came quite near to us and looked at us as if telling us "Poor fellas, what can you do to us!"

It all happened in less than 2 minutes. In this incident, we lost approximately RM 3500 including cash, hand phones, a digital camera, a smashed windscreen, and a damaged interior of the car.

Worse, all four of us were traumatized by the incident. We could have lost our lives.

While we were lodging police report at Balai Polis Perai, another girl came to lodge a police report at the same police station. She too was followed and robbed by a group of 20 over Malay guys on motorcycles, whom the police suspected were committed by the same gang.

The policemen who have came to us and whom we met at the police station seems to be aware of the so-called Mat Rempits and what they have been doing, and they pitied us with what happened. One of them even commented that "we were lucky that they did not sprayed chilly powder instead". ( this is what they can do-empathy)

We also need to highlight that we arrived at the police station at approximately 5.30am. The entire report process took us around 6 hours which was also ridiculous.( where is the Barisan rep, where is the MCA rep?, where is the LAW? )

As victims of this incident, and as members of the public, we need to know what actions the authorities have taken since they were aware of similar incidents which have been taking place for quite some time. Also, what are the actions that they will take to prevent another unlucky victim to go through the entire traumatic experience which will haunt us for our lifetime?

The incident was reported on Star Newspaper dated 11th Dec 2006 , on page N26. Nonetheless, the content of the report was inaccurate. The report itself sounded like "just another robbery".

Posted by Victim at 6:41 AM 1 comments

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Mat Rempit on crime spree

11 Dec 2006
Adie Suri Zulkefli

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BUKIT MERTAJAM: Mat Rempit are no longer just a menace on the road. In Penang , they have become violent criminals, robbing and assaulting their victims. Several groups of these illegal racers went on a crime spree in four separate incidents early yesterday.

Later in the afternoon, some of them even rammed a police road block.

In the first incident during the early hours of the morning, a group of between 20 and 30 motorcyclists blocked a Perodua Kancil near the Penang Bridge and smashed the car's windscreen.

They then used a fire extinguisher to temporarily blind four men in the car before robbing them of their cash and belongings worth about RM500.

The Mat Rempit were believed to have trailed the car from Butterworth before forcing it to stop at the end of the bridge, near Prai here.

In the second incident in Kampung Jawa, Prai, another group of Mat Rempit robbed a Proton Gen.2 owner after trailing him right to his house.

The driver, in his 30s, who realised he was being trailed, thought that he would be spared after speeding to his home but the gang persisted and followed him.

They assaulted him before relieving his cash and belongings worth about RM250.

In two other incidents in Bukit Tengah and Bukit Minyak, two groups of Mat Rempit robbed drivers of two different cars by tricking them into stopping by planting their crash helmets on the road.

Each driver stopped to remove the helmets, only to be assaulted by the attackers who were hiding behind some bushes.

Seberang Perai Tengah police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Anil Shah Abdullah has pledged an all-out war against Mat Rempit.

"We are mobilising all our available resources to track them and put a stop to this madness," he said.

He also said police had identified two men in their 20s in connection with the cases and would release their photos to the public if they failed to report to the police.

The Mat Rempit menace, however, continued when about 4pm, a group of about 50 Mat Rempit, believed to be from Tasek Gelugor, almost clashed with the police at a roadblock near the Bukit Tengah roundabout. Some of them rammed into the roadblock but luckily none of the policemen was injured.

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