We're living in a stone age society

Johor has been getting a lot of media coverage for the longest time now. To me, it's really become a cowboy town of some sort. I'd imagine if people were allowed to have guns, they'd wear it proud on the waist coupled with a few slugs around the belt. You know,I haven't been to Johor myself but with all the rape cases, robberies, car jackings and what not, who could blame me for not venturing down south?

After countless petitions and countless crimes, the government and the police force have decided to do something about it. How do you even compensate for the loss that the families and people have gone through all this time? Yea, sure they can say it's better late than never. Well, why don't they put themselves in the shoes of the victims and then try to quote the same phrase.

So, now that the little cowboy town has decided to beef up security, the crime lords would probably decide to scatter and move to other towns or cities. Come to think of it, security hasn't been that great in KL either. My house was broken into two years back, so what the heck about KL?

If the government is serious about battling crime, why not launch a nationwide campaign against it? It seems that they will only concentrate on areas where cowboy towns exist and they could not be bothered about other locations. So what are our police force doing right now?

I'll tell you what, they are setting up roadblocks to stop cars with HID lights, that's precisely what they are doing. A friend of a friend, recently was driving along the NSE and he was pulled over by a Perdana. He was driving a friend's Perodua Myvi, which had HID a.k.a. Xenon lights on, modified exhaust, huge rims, the car was tinted and had all Perodua emblems removed and replaced with Toyota and TRD stickers.

Now, the cop told him that his lights looked white and informed him that he was going to be fined for it. And the officer had the cheek to inform him that he was lucky that he was only getting a fine of RM 200.00 for the HID lights and not other "illegal" modifications. According to the cop, he could issue a fine for the change of emblems, oversized rims, modified exhaust and tints, but he was only going to catch him for the HID.

We're living in a stone age society, where the authorities who have other more important tasks at hand, only focuses on the small matters. Soon, all cars coming into Malaysia has to have the HID headlamps modified a step backward, back to halogens. I've even heard stories of people with halogen bulbs, which looked a little white being stopped and fined.

So looks like I'm one of the affected people, yes my car may be standard, but they'll catch me for HID lights. Not speeding, not drink driving but for bright headlights. See what I mean by a cowboy town? The law does not care about what rule you break, just so as long as it is not a major one, you're fined. Oh, as for the major ones, you'll be arrested... but they'll take a long time to catch all of them.