Kit Siang's flat tyre

Kit Siang was furious as his car tyre was deliberately flattened by some morons poking a needle into the tyre of his car parked at the MP parking lot at the Parliament. He should indeed make a police report so that police can find out who are the culprits. I suppose there are CCTVs everywhere at the parliament and it would not be that difficult to find out if the sabotage incident as described by Kit Siang was indeed happening at the parliament and not other places. Kit Siang said that it is the first time after 40 years of driving that his car tyre was deliberately punctured by hooligans.

I have been driving a car for the past 15 years and thank god, no sabotage. But my wife, having just driving for one or two years after working as a lecturer in a private college, her car tyre was deliberately flattened by a student. One day, she came back home with a tyre almost flattened. I thought that could be a puncture so I sent her car to a tyre shop only to find out that some morons deliberately put a piece of stone grain into the cap of the tube of the tyre, and that caused the air to leak out slowly. The mechanic told me that it was an act of sabotage as no way can a stone grain go inside the cap accidentally.

So my wife was as furious as Kit Siang was. The next day she went to the lecture with a red face and scolded at all her students. From their reactions, she roughly knew who did it. I told my wife many time that it is no point wasting so much time to educate the hopeless one. Such acts of sabotage do not only happen in private college or university. My aunt is a secondary school teacher in Selayang. One day she was happily driving a brand new car to school and almost fainted after school hour when she was about to leave as she noticed there was a “beautiful flower engraved” on the top right corner of her car bonnet.

Come on MPs, educationalists, politicians and people at large, instead of arguing time and again whether English should be made compulsory to pass SPM, why not focusing on the real threats first. The discipline of the student nowadays is rotting fast and nothing has been done to improve it. No wonder mat rempit is becoming a social menace and the adolescent crime is on the rise.