Thursday, August 18, 2005

8 in a Kancil?

How do you pack 8 ppl into a Perodua Kancil (a car roughly the size of a Mini)?



Only a 2-yr old child was killed in the accident involving the Kancil and a Wira. I said "only" because a total of 10 ppl were involved in the accident. It's no less tragic though. For those of you who haven't ever seen these kinda things: squeezing as many ppl into a car or onto a motorcycle is a national pastime in Malaysia.

No sh*t it's dangerous! But when a family can only afford one form of private transporation, you'd always get ppl doing things like this.

New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online

6 comments:

  1. Sometimes from a rich nation's point of view it's crazy but from a 3rd world citizen's point of view, this scene is normal. Squeezing as many people on a car is justifiable knowing that the average monthly wage is measly. Since it happened in Malaysia, then that's stupid, Malaysia ain't that poor! :)

    Manila

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  2. manila: there's still poorer people here, just like anywhere else. But I guess it also sucks more when the public transport is not adequate so they are forced to do this.

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  3. Actually, squeezing 8 people into a car could be quite possible. Especially if some of those people are small enough to squeeze into the area where the front passenger's feet are...

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  4. starry: sit in that little area. Holy shit...now that's freaking dangerous. :P

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  5. well I know of someone who did that and covered himself up with a towel to avoid getting into deep shit with the booze bus cops... lol

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  6. jjj: Lucky for you nothing bad happened. *knock on wood* :)

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