Good Samaritan’s skull cracked by road bully

A GOOD Samaritan received 15 stitches to his head for trying to defend a woman driver against a road bully, reported Sin Chew Daily.

Car repair shop owner Ye Zhi Cheng, 34, who sustained a crack on his skull, said he was riding his own motorcycle when he saw a motorcyclist tailing the woman in front of a school in Ipoh on Saturday.

“At a junction, the motorcyclist demanded she stop her car. He also threatened to hit the car with a helmet he was holding.

“I tried to stop the man and asked the woman to leave.

“The motorcyclist then confronted me, asking if I was a secret society member, then calling me a busybody and challenged me to a fight.

“I apologised and left but he kept tailing me and tried to stop my motorcycle with his leg,” he said.

The motorcyclist stopped him in Taman Pertama 1 and suddenly smashed the helmet onto his head.

“He also found a wooden stick and hit my head,” said Ye.

Ye has no regrets helping the woman but hopes she will come forward as a witness to the case.

> Sin Chew Daily also reported that a 64-year-old woman in Sabah lost her life savings to a Macau Scam.

The woman received a call from a “bank officer” who claimed that her identity had been stolen.

She then called a number provided by the “bank officer” and later gave her five bank account numbers and passwords to a “Bank Negara officer”.

In about 30 minutes, she transferred her life savings of almost RM300,000 to the scammers.

In early October, an accountant in Penang also lost RM510,000 to a syndicate using a similar scam.

The infamous Macau Scam usually starts with a phone call from someone pretending to be an officer from a bank, government agency or debt collection agency.

The scammer will then claim that the potential victim owes money or has an unpaid fine, often with a very short window of less than an hour, to make the payment or face “dire consequences”.