Last night I worked late and was extremely sleepy when I came home. I slept at 1.00 a.m. and really had a deep sleep but some time during my sleep I heard an extremely loud noise. I thought it was part of my dream but when I suddenly awoke, I heard yarl restaurant's loud and deafening kitchen hood noise. I looked at the clock and saw that it was only 6.15 a.m. This means that even before I woke up at that time yarl restaurant was already making a lot of noise that intruded into my sleep and became a part of my dream! It is really frustrating to hear yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise in our dream and to be wakened up by yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise every morning particularly when we are still in our deep sleep! At 6.15 a.m., the entire neighbourhood is still very quiet, so quiet that you can even hear a pin drop and all we can hear now is yarl restaurant's kitchen hood noise permeating the entire atmosphere. Chasing us out of our bedrooms in the wee hours of the morning everyday is nothing new to yarl restaurant's boss and he has done it as early as 5.20 a.m. in the morning. Whenever anyone complains, he would turn on his noisy kitchen hood a little bit later e.g. 6.40 a.m. but after a few days, he would revert back to his old habit - turning on his loud and deafening kitchen hood earlier and earlier with each passing day. Why am I writing this article? Because I am feeling sleepy and tired but cannot sleep as yarl restaurant is making a lot of noise with its noisy kitchen hood now. What has the title of this article got to do with this article? Well, the title of this article is actually yarl restaurant's criminal threatening (there is a threatening comment in my blog for the article entitled Kuala Lumpur City Hall: The Greatest Joke on Earth which I believe is from yarl restaurant). Wonder why yarl restaurant still has the guts to threaten us after all the problems that it is causing us? Let us analyze this comment carefully and try to understand the meaning behind it.
Anonymous9 February 2014 02:49
So, lu cari pasal dekat itu kopitiam?! Lu pernah kena penampar kangkung?!
It is obvious that the person who made this threatening comment must have some interest in yarl restaurant. Who else would make this kind of criminal threatening apart from the restaurant owner himself? What kind of person yarl restaurant's boss is? From the kind of language that is used here, it is obvious that whoever writes this comment in my blog is:
- uneducated with no knowledge of English and only knows broken Malay
- uncivilized and that is why he thinks he has the right to threaten us when we complain about his air and noise pollution program.
- irrational as he refuses to do anything to reduce his kitchen hood noise and continues to plague us with noise without any remorse on his part i.e. he should apologize to us for the evil things that he has done to us instead of threatening to harm us
- selfish i.e. thinks only of the profit that he is going to make at the expense of others and even goes to the extent of threatening to harm all those who stand in his way
- behaving like a thug because he is threatening to harm us with "penampar kangkung" if we complain about his air and noise pollution program
- violent because he is threatening to use force on us
The comment So, lu cari pasal dekat itu kopitiam?! Lu pernah kena penampar kangkung?! is obviously a form of criminal threatening. As defined by Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia: Criminal threatening is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of imminent bodily injury.
There is no legal definition in English law as to what constitutes criminal threatening behaviour, so it is up to the courts to decide on a case by case basis. However, if somebody threatens violence against somebody, then this may be a criminal offense. Criminal threatening can be the result of verbal threats of violence, physical conduct (such as hand gestures or raised fists), actual physical contact, or even simply the placing of an object or graffiti on the property of another person with the purpose of coercing or terrorizing in reckless disregard for causing fear, terror or inconvenience;
"Terrorizing" generally means to cause alarm, fright, or dread in another person or inducing apprehension of violence from a hostile or threatening event, person or object. What kind of man yarl restaurant's boss is? Actions speak louder than words and in a way, this criminal threatening So, lu cari pasal dekat itu kopitiam?! Lu pernah kena penampar kangkung?! clearly represents the true nature of the person who wrote this comment in my blog.
Despite being threatened by yarl restaurant, I will continue to stand up for my rights i.e. the right not to be chased out of my bedroom every morning. If you were to ask us what is the most terrible experience in our lives, we would not hesitate to tell you that the most terrible experience in our lives is yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution program. We have never experienced anything worse than that. Has it ever occurred to my readers how painful it is to be yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution victims? As yarl restaurant's victims,
It is indeed a shameful thing to say that yarl restaurant's boss is torturing us with noise day and night with his eyes wide open ignoring all the sufferings that he is causing to others and even more shameful to say that he still has the guts to threaten to harm us for complaining about his kitchen hood noise.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT THE NOISE THAT YARL RESTAURANT IS GENERATING IS THE KIND OF LOUD AND DEAFENING MOTOR SOUND THAT CAN EVEN BE HEARD ON THE FOURTH FLOOR! WONDER WHY IT IS ALLOWED IN MALAYSIA AND AT SUCH AN EARLY HOUR IN THE MORNING TOO? IS THIS WHAT WE MEAN BY "MALAYSIA BOLEH" - i.e. WE CAN DO ANYTHING IN MALAYSIA INCLUDING KILLING PEOPLE SLOWLY WITH NOISE AND THREATENING THEM WITH VIOLENCE SHOULD THEY COMPLAIN?
