Presenting, five shocking, weird and just plain outrageous Malaysian crime stories that makes you wanna go “WTF?!” and smack your face. Or maybe even smack someone else’s face.
1. Who needs burglar alarms when you’ve got a ghost?
KAJANG, SELANGOR – The house-turned-grocery shop should have been fat pickings for the burglar. But he didn’t stand a ghost of a chance against what was waiting for him inside.
The burglar had targeted the home because the family was away for Hari Raya Haji. When he saw that the coast was clear, he sneaked into the house through the back door. No human would lay eyes on him for the next 72 hours.
When the owner and his wife returned from their trip, they found the burglar sprawled in a room, starving and dehydrated. When he saw the couple, he broke down in tears and begged them to forgive him for robbing them. Seeing his condition, the house owner took pity on him and called an ambulance. Then he called the cops.
When police interrogated the burglar later, he claimed that he had been trapped in the room for the three days and three nights without food or water. He had apparently been “blinded” the moment he stepped inside the house. It felt like being in a cave, he said. He claimed that every time he tried to escape, a “supernatural figure” would shove him to the ground.
The burglar screamed and screamed for help but none of the neighbours had noticed. So he was forced to spend the next 3 days in the room in the company of this “supernatural figure”.
The next big question would be: what did the burglar and the “supernatural figure” talk about or do together in the 3 days spent in the same room? To this day, nobody knows.
2. Robber breaks into her home but she stole his heart instead
BANDAR BAHARU, KEDAH – A 25-year-old girl got the shock of her life when she was woken up in the middle of the night by strange men in her room. But what one of them did was really unbelievable.
A gang of four robbers had broken into the university student’s home. After tying up her sister, brother-in-law and niece, they headed for her room. Obviously, they had no good thing on their mind. She thought she was going to be a victim of a horrifying sex crime when one of them started unbuckling his belt. But she was rescued by another robber in the group.
After threatening to thrash the first robber’s ass if he didn’t leave her alone, this guy sat next to her comforted her. He made sure she was comfortable and unharmed. He flirted with her for over an hour – with the sounds of the other robbers ransacking the home as his romantic soundtrack.
He admitted to having secretly admired her for some time and asked her to be his Facebook friend. He went as far as telling her he wanted to be her boyfriend! As the rest of the gang finished the job, he asked for her phone number so that he could call her up to chat some more.
All the time he was wooing her, he still had his robber’s mask on. Freaky!
3. Cops catch snatch thieves, who turn out to be cops
PETALING JAYA, SELANGOR – A Good Samaritan who tried to catch two snatch thieves probably felt he was living in the land of Dali or something, instead of Malaysia.
B Saravanan was driving to lunch when he saw two men on a bike trying to snatch a necklace from a woman. Pissed that this was taking place in broad daylight, he immediately drove to the scene and rammed his car into the robbers’ motorcycle. When the robbers fell on the street, the hero got down from his car to teach them a good lesson. (this is starting to sound like a scene from a Rajnikanth movie!)
Unfortunately, in real life, people are nowhere as awesome as Rajnikanth. Our Good Samaritan was overpowered instead, and he lost his own gold chain to the robbers. Not one to give up, Saravanan continued trying to take down both the thieves before wisely deciding to back off when one of them pulled a knife. They were forced to escape on foot as the bike was too damaged by the car.
Saravanan then called the cops, who came to take pictures of the crime scene. Shortly after that, he was called to the station to identify the thieves in an identification parade. He was able to point out the 2 culprits from among 20 people in the lineup. But satisfaction turned into horrible shock.
The officer in charge revealed that both the suspects were actually police officers. They were assigned to the same police station that he had made the report at, and they were supposed to just make up the numbers in the lineup! Investigations also showed that the bike did indeed belong to the cop, although the constable claimed to have sold it.
The police promised to look into the case. They may be still looking as there have been no other developments in the news since then.
4. Thief caught after cops catch wind of his hiding place
SEGAMAT, JOHOR – This sounds like a bad joke. Maybe it is. But it really happened!
Two thieves break into a warehouse. As they searched through the place, they were unlucky enough to be spotted and the cops were called in. The police arrived shortly after, and they too began searching through the warehouse for the thieves.
At last, the cops saw the thieves and gave chase. Knowing that the game was up, one of the thieves crashed through some nearby shrubs and managed to escape. For some unknown reason, the other one decided to stay back in the warehouse where the cops were looking for him. He found a row of gas canisters and slipped behind them to hide (how ironic this is will become clear a little later).
As the policemen combed the scene, they suddenly heard a loud fart. A foul odour wafted towards them a short while later. Smelling something amiss, the cops quickly turned their noses to the gas canisters in their attempt to sniff out the thief’s hiding place. Now hot on the scent, the cops didn’t take long to find their man and arrest him.
SPECIAL MENTION: If you can’t fight them, ask them to fight for us
PUTRAJAYA – In 2012, the then Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein announced that his Ministry would engage Mat Rempit (biker gangs) to help fight crime in Malaysia.
Describing the outrageous idea as “out-of-the-box thinking”, the Home Minister said that the negative perception towards Mat Rempits was unwarranted as they were able to contribute to the country. He added that his ministry had already contacted several NGOs and groups to start recruiting biker gangs into the programme.
Acknowledging that the Rempits would probably face criticisms and cynicism from people when they do come on board the programme (really, you think so?), the Home Minister believed that with the government’s guidance the biker gangs would be a credible crime-fighting force. Although exactly how the bikers will help in crime-fighting, he never said.
We wish the Home Ministry all the best! And we wish the rest of Malaysia the very best of luck when this initiative does take off.
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