Tuesday July 17, 2007
Beaten up over a rooster
By STEVEN DANIEL
MALACCA: Six men assaulted a 60-year-old factory boss when he tried to stop them from taking away his pet rooster.
Zinc pipe-making factory director Neo Ah Kausaid that the men kicked, punched and beat him up with sticks when he refused to let them take away his rooster, which he kept in the factory in Duyong where he worked.
Neo said he was in the factory with a customer when a man in his 20s approached him, looking for the owner around noon on Saturday.
“There had been several thefts in this area so as a precautionary measure, I said the owner was not around,” said Neo when met at the Malacca Hospital yesterday.
He said the man then left. However, when Neo went back to speak to his customer, the man suddenly rushed into the factory and grabbed one of Neo’s pet roosters nearby.
“That big and brown rooster is my favourite and I rushed to stop him from taking it,” said Neo.
He said a struggle ensured and suddenly, six men appeared and attacked him with sticks.
The customer fled when he saw the attack.
Neo, who tried to fight back, said he was held back by the assailants and repeatedly beaten until a woman rushed towards the attackers, telling them to stop the beating.
“She held the cock and examined it saying that it was not theirs.
“Then all of them just left without even apologising or helping me. They got into a car and on a motorcycle,” said Neo.
He said he recognised the man who had approached him as his neighbour, and that the woman who appeared later was the man’s mother.
Neo later lodged a report at the Melaka Tengah police station.
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