Blast it

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I was reading an online newspaper, which I rarely do with all the skewered and biased information reported, and all those crimes that we face each day, but that’s another different story altogether. Like I was saying, I read an online newspaper full of shits on politics and this one story stuck out glaringly.

And I hate reading papers these days because most of it would be about crimes, blue collared or not, here and everywhere else around the world. There are decent people around, why are not their stories highlighted, instead? Hurm. Well, I am, after all, just a country bumpkin. What do I know about what sensational news  deemed would be able to sell those papers newsworthy , right?

Yes, folks. That is one cooking gas container. One that had exploded. You don’t see any kitchen or gas hobs around, don’t you? Because there are non. The container was used to fill gas to run the van that you see right beside it. Say what? Yes, say what, again. Now as to why these folks would resort to using cooking gas container as a replacement for NGV container is not known, but one could guess, correctly, I would assume. Soaring fuel price, you assume? You betcha. But hey, I could be wrong. After all, it would only take around, what, RM2500 to have NGV kit installed in your vehicle, compared to spending, say, RM100, for an empty cooking gas container, no? The obvious choice, disregarding safety, that is, would be the latter. I would not, again, speculate, why these folks would disregard safety when they did this. They were ingenious albeit in ignorant kinda way, if one overlook the fact that it did explode tee hee. Since I would not know what I would have done should I be in their situation and not to mention predicament, I would reserve my judgement. Yes, predicament, because I am sure nobody in their right mind would think that it would be safe to be driving with that thing around. And what drove them to make that kind of decision?

They would remember next time when they voted who should control the prices of things in Malaysia in the next general election, I would bet. Yes, I know, I am not supposed to judge, and I am not, just stating an opinion. I feel for the family. The deceased were married only last July, and the wife is two months pregnant. That is one sorry affair, that. Al-Fatihah to the deceased, and hopefully all of us would not have to make the decisions that he had to make, and hopefully all of us would prosper here in our beloved heartland.
You can read about the story here .