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Wednesday 19 January 2011

Malaysians risk lives in rush for spilled coins




AFP
January 19, 2011, 2:41 p
m
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - 







Malaysian motorists risked their lives to scoop up thousands of coins spilled on a highway after the vehicle carrying the currency overturned, reports said Wednesday.
Dozens of people abandoned their cars along the side of the North-South Expressway, one of the country's main transport arteries, and frantically filled their pockets, helmets and plastic bags with the coins.
The melee caused a traffic jam on either side of the overturned four-wheel drive vehicle, which left 70,000 ringgit (nearly $23,000) in coins strewn across the road on Tuesday.
"Fortunately, both of us escaped with minor injuries," said 28-year-old driver Zairulhisham Mansor, who along with a friend had been transporting the coins to shops in the resort town of Malacca.
The New Straits Times said that the coin-hunters ignored police demands to clear the road.

2 comments:

  1. Bro, uncle zorro (zorro unmasked) has got the correct respond to this and I repeat "what would you expect from the people whose government is on a grap fest mode. Monkey see, monkey do mah".

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  2. We still won't learn from S'pore. It has banned gwaking at accidents. For those who want to gamble on the registration numbers of the vehicles, I understand these are announced on the radio - I hope this is not a joke. This way, there is no excuse to stop, except for the first few who stop to aid victims.

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