Wasted Sperm

It was about eight months ago that a couple of brutes (i would like to use coarser words here, but my mother reads this) robbed me of my mobile phone. A month prior to that, my wife lost her mobile to another couple of the same kind of brutes. A year or so before that, my mother was brutally assaulted by yet another duo of the same despicable kind. I am not labeling them as yet, but you definitely get the drift of what I am referring to, right? And no, it is not an error that I have used 'what' to refer to them, instead of 'who'.

Yup, those brutes on motorbikes who used to terrorize the streets and other motorists with their daredevil stunts and devil-may-care attitude towards road safety. Call them what you like - mat rempits or snatch thieves or road devils (not to be confused with the brilliant Red Devils, of course), these bunch of ass holes (sorry, Ma) have now become the scourge of decent people all over Malaysia. I prefer to call them wasted sperm. No disrespect to the fathers of these animals, but if you had practiced coitus interruptus and disposed of the sperm that you impregnated your wife with into the nearest drain, we could all have been spared their torture.

Not only they scare the living daylights out of motorists, they have now turned their attention to robbing innocent, hardworking people of their belongings.

The latest attack by these bunch of losers on five girls in Bangsar has got everybody and his uncle plus his dog upset and concerned. Rightly so. This scourge or curse has been around for some time now, since 2004 to quote a leading afternoon newspaper. But the policeman incharge of giving statements to the press proudly states that his force have been actively hunting them down for the last one month.

Yup, you read me correctly, one month. Uno mese. Un mois. Una mes. Satu bulan. For more than four fucking (sorry again, Ma) years, the bastards have been scaring the living daylights out of the people and our sorry excuse for a police force has been actively on it for ONE MONTH. I guess this qualifies them to drop the cekap part from their Bersih, Cekap, Amanah motto. Oh ya, the bersih was bribed away a long time ago already.

The same police officer then proceeds to make it look like it is partly Joe Public's fault that the police cannot catch and charge these criminals. He insists that the public need be more proactive in apprehending the biker dudes and handing them over to the cops. He says that unless they are caught in the act, it is impossible to identify them just by stopping them at roadblocks. Agreed. You can't generalise. You can't arrest everybody on suspicion of being a Mat Rempit.

But maybe the police might want to get in touch with one Encik Khairy Jamaludin of UMNO youth fame. Apparently this dude has the contact numbers of a lot of these Mat Rempits on his speed dial. Heck, he even managed to get them to work for him during the recent General Elections.

When a deputy minister in our cabinet has such close links with what the public perceive as a menace to society, is it any wonder then that they seem to be increasingly rampant?

But I guess all this is too much work for our over-worked, under-paid and under-staffed police force. Most of them are also wasted sperm themselves. They'd rather stand on street corners to fine and issue summonses to the public than to arrest criminals.