You're a funny man, Mr Minister

Parliament : Cops scared of crooks, so based closed!

Title published in the Star - Thursday, October 16 2008

The following story from the Star made my start to the weekend all that better (and funnier) coming from our dear Mr Minister of Internal Affairs (MahaRaja Lawak Msia) in a written response to a question in Parliament:-

 

KUALA LUMPUR:

A police beat base in the Chow Kit area of downtown Kuala Lumpur was closed down

 

Why you ask?

………because it was in a location that was considered unsafe,. said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar

 

And what else?

In a written reply to Dr Lo’ Lo’ Mohamad Ghazali (PAS-Titiwangsa), Syed Hamid said the beat base was located in a dirty areawhere there was a possibility of being exposed to contagious diseases.

 

Dirty area? Contagious disease? And?

 

The presence of criminals also posed a threat to the safety of police officers, he said.

 

Syed Hamid said that the police were looking for a new location to build a police beat base that would be able to give “guaranteed and continued service to the public.”

 

You mean in other places where it is in a clean area, not exposed to contagious disease and not posed a threat to the Police? In other words, the Cops are only for show and to look pretty? And only for arresting or pinning down politicians and other pressure groups?

 

You’re a funny man, Mr Minister…..