Hunky customer triggers catfight

Spotted this bizarre piece of news in the Star today. Seems to be a scene right out of Bollywood! :-)

KUALA TERENGGANU: A man, who reportedly looked like a Bollywood actor, walked into a food court for a teh tarik and triggered a brawl among three women that left one woman scalded and another woman’s T-shirt ripped open.

Several chairs and tables were damaged during the fight among the women at the outlet in Merega Beris in Kijal, Kemaman on Saturday.

The shocked man fled the scene.

It all began when the man walked in alone. Two women at two separate stalls immediately tried to get his attention and lure him over to their stalls.

When he stopped to speak with one of the women, her competitor, 21, became so incensed that she marched over to the woman, tore her T-shirt and accused her of being gatal and dressing seductively.

The other woman, 22, immediately grabbed a pan and splashed her attacker with hot water, scalding her.

The scalded woman’s mother, 46, rushed to her daughter’s aid, hurling chairs at her assailant, damaging tables and alarming the other customers, said state Deputy CID Chief Supt Khairi Ahrasa yesterday.

He said the scalded woman was now warded at the Kemaman Hospital.

US couple claims $105.8 million lottery prize

Further to the blog on the lottery ticket seller who fled town after she told the public about the winning ticket, I can’t help but noticed how things are so different overseas.

Here is a report from the Star about a US couple winning a USD105.8 million jackpot and the story gets wide publicity and a picture of the couple to boot.

Here in Malaysia, everything would be classified “TOP SECRET”.

East is East and West is West ………

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP): Don Harvey’s long-haul truck had almost 2 million miles (3 million kilometers) on it when its engine died this week. Now he and his wife are millionaires who bought the winning ticket for a $105.8 million (euro78.3 million) lottery jackpot.

Harvey and his wife, Joyce, said they will pay off bills, help family members and think about buying a new home with their winnings.

They chose to receive a $33.3 million (euro24.7 million) lump sum after taxes instead of the full amount paid out over 29 years.

Joyce Harvey said she was in “absolute disbelief and shock” when she checked the numbers on her computer Thursday night and found she had the winner. “Basically, I just broke down and cried,” she said Friday.

It was a quirky thing that she won, she said, because she always had bought lottery tickets using the same numbers. She said she recently bought a ticket, but the numbers “came out wrong.” She said she decided to use those same numbers when she bought the latest ticket and bingo, it was a winner.

Only one ticket sold for Wednesday night’s drawing matched the six numbers drawn. The odds of winning were about 176 million to one, said Jim Scoggins, executive director of the lottery.

In March, two ticket winners split a record $390 million (euro293 million) jackpot for another multi-state lottery, Mega Millions.

Boss beats up man caught with his wife

When I read the following report in the Star today, two Chinese sayings instantly sprang to mind (both literally translated).

1. Never sh** and eat in the same place. (Never sh** in your rice-bowl??)

2. If you want to steal food, you must know how to wipe your mouth.

MIRI: A foreign worker was beaten up by his employer after he was found in a “compromising position” with the businessman’s attractive young wife.

Not satisfied with the punishment meted out on his employee, the dealer in telecommunication equipment lodged a police report against the 19-year-old employee for alleged sexual harassment of his wife.

The incident allegedly occurred in the man’s shop located in a commercial complex on the outskirts of the city on Friday night.

The businessman’s wife is in her late 20s. The man, in his late 40s, lodged the report against the youth at the Miri Central Police Station after he had beaten up the employee.

The businessman claimed that the worker had been sexually harassing his wife and that he had tried to force himself on her.

Police detained the worker on Friday night for questioning and obtained a six-day remand order to facilitate investigation.