Why didn’t someone shoot us then? Are things so different now?

ARCHIVES 2010

By admin-s On Apr 30, 2010

Was Aminul’s crime such that he had to die?

Must my teenage son, and yours, pay with their lives, for the silly adolescent mistakes they will surely make?

By Haris Ibrahim

Note : Thanks, Chee Seng, for the alert. Aminul’s partner in crime lodged a police report of his version of what happened that morning. You can read the same HERE.

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We were all in Form 4 then.

Honeymoon year.

The rule was to always have a t-shirt or some other shirt stashed in the school bag so that, at a moment’s notice, we’d be ready to sneak out of school and chill out at some place cool.

That particular morning, about 10 of us scaled the gate at the back entrance to school, squeezed into 2 taxis, headed out to Ampang Park Shopping Complex, made our way to the toilet, got out of our uniforms and were ready for a fun-filled day.

Or so we thought.

One of us sauntered into a shop selling cassettes and cartridges. Ten minutes later, he was out, having first stuck a number of cartridges into his school bag without paying for the same.

He had just shoplifted and this became the dare of the day.

“Whoever did not go into a shop and nick something didn’t have b***s”, so the dare went.

We dispersed, heading out to different shops to prove our manhood, agreeing to meet back at the ground floor in 30 minutes to look at who got what and then make our getaway.

Strangely, everyone made a beeline to the numerous shops selling cassettes and cartridges.

30 minutes later, we converged at the agreed meeting point.

Only to find ourselves surrounded by security guards.

We were hauled up to the complex manager’s office.