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Wednesday December 5, 2007

Contractor bitten by dog – where it hurts the most

KLANG: All he wanted to do was deliver a bouquet of flowers to his friend. He ended up getting 10 stitches on his scrotum after a dog bit him.

Nasty bite: Goh showing the holes on his jeans where the dog sank its teeth in.
Goh Boon Lea, a contractor and part time florist, had gone to his friend's house in Taman Bekerly at 10.20pm on Sunday to deliver the flowers when the male mongrel, belonging to his friend's tenant, a 60-year-old woman, lunged and started to bark at him.

The 37-year-old said his friend tried to hold the dog back but it escaped and bit him.

“I pushed the dog away. Then, I noticed blood oozing from the wound. The pain was so bad,” he said.

Goh's sister, who had been waiting in the car, drove him to the nearest clinic where he was given several injections and stitches.

“It was the scariest and most painful experience of my life. Luckily my two sons, aged three and six, were in the car with my sister,” he told a press conference organised by Kapar MCA division youth chief Datuk Song Kee Chai yesterday.

Goh said there were two holes on his jeans where the dog's teeth tore into him.

He added that the dog had bitten his friend’s sister previously.

Goh, who is on a two-week medical leave, has lodged a police report and plans to take legal action against the dog's owner.

Song, who is also Klang Municipal Councillor, has forwarded Goh's complaint to the council.

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