Highway rage tends to occur on, you recognize, the highway, however generally the anger doesn’t cease when the wheels do. There are many individuals who park their automotive solely to return to search out it has been deliberately keyed or dented. In these circumstances, they often don’t have a lot recourse to say damages – even when they handle to retrieve CCTV footage from the carpark operator.
An analogous state of affairs occurred to TY Tai on Sunday, in response to a Fb submit that has gone viral. In it, he said {that a} passer-by kicked his Tesla Mannequin 3 whereas it was parked at Nexus in Bangsar South. The vandal, who gave the impression to be with their dad and mom, then rotated to spit on the automotive earlier than leaving with the household in a white Audi Q8 e-tron.
The incident was captured by each the Sentry Mode on Tai’s Mannequin 3, in addition to Nexus’ personal safety footage. It’s not clear whether or not the miscreant was sad with this specific automotive, the Tesla firm as a complete or Tai himself, and Tai doesn’t appear to know both the vandal or their dad and mom. In any case, the proprietor did make a police report, however as there was no seen injury, the authorities determined to not open a case file.
That is clearly an unsatisfactory ending for Tai, who resorted to encouraging the perpetrator to return ahead and apologise by promising to delete the submit in the event that they do. That’s hardly any motivation for the vandal to take action, particularly on condition that they don’t seem to be being chased by legislation enforcement, solely hounded on social media.
It could shock you to know this, however there aren’t really any legal guidelines towards vandalism in Malaysia – a minimum of, that’s what Alliance for a Secure Neighborhood Lee Lam Thye wrote on The Solar simply that Sunday. If his title sounds acquainted, that’s as a result of Lee was beforehand the chairman of the Malaysian Institute of Highway Security Analysis (MIROS).
Malaysia does have the capability to punish those that trigger mischief beneath the Penal Code Part 425, however this solely applies to those that have really triggered tangible injury – which, once more, Tai couldn’t show. As for present Kuala Lumpur Metropolis Council (DBKL) bylaws, these solely apply to metropolis property.
Lee proposed an anti-vandalism legislation that might impose obligatory group service on convicted vandals and a jail time period for repeat offenders. Till such a legislation passes, nonetheless, there’s not a lot that victims like Tai can do aside from publicly naming and shaming the perpetrator.
The lesson right here is obvious – this nation must enact anti-vandalism legal guidelines to curb the prevalence of such acts. However actually, do us Malaysians want the legislation or stringent enforcement to cease us from being a public menace? It doesn’t matter what you are feeling a couple of automotive or its driver, you shouldn’t take out your frustrations on another person’s property; that a lot needs to be apparent sufficient. If the rest, know that when you attempt to do one thing to a Tesla, you possibly can find yourself having your face plastered throughout social media for the world to see.
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