MAINSTREAM Malay newspapers roundly condemned the MIC delegate who suggested that a “shoe garland” be placed on former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s portrait at its recent 63rd annual general assembly.
Utusan Malaysia frontpaged reactions from several politicians, including Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, independent MP Datuk Ibrahim Ali, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and Dr Mahathir’s son Datuk Mukhriz — all of whom described the suggestion as “extreme, rude and hurtful”.
Others who came to Dr Mahathir’s defence were former Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who decried the proposal as “childish.”
Berita Harian highlighted the demand from several Umno leaders for MIC delegates at the assembly to apologise for the remark.
> A “moving and standing” prayer mat was a sensational news item at a village in Pasir Mas.
Kosmo! reported that villagers, who claimed to have seen the mat standing up when it moved about for eight hours, described it as having the figure of a praying man.
The mysterious incident only came to an end after one villager touched the mat, causing it to crumple to the floor.
Villager Sharifah Nor Syed Agil, 61, said her son Mohd Faizal Mohd Zin had woken up in the living room at 8.30am on Monday and saw the prayer mat standing up.
“It was rather frightening to wake up and see the mat standing up on its own,” said Mohd Faizal, who managed to capture the incident on camera.
> A woman in Johor Baru accumulated 146 summonses for parking her Proton Iswara illegally along busy Jalan Trus between 2004 and 2006, reported Harian Metro.
Bank employee S.Sarawathi, 31, was slap-ped with a RM100 fine for each summons and was even given a “bonus” fine of RM4,500 by the court on Monday for displaying a fake road tax disc on her vehicle in June last year.
In total, she paid RM11,800 in fines.
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