Saman

These stupid papers are the legal way used by the government to collect money from you whenever they ran out of money.

From left to right: Saman from Petaling Jaya, Penang, Kajang, Ipoh, Kuantan, and Penang (again)

In order to kapit that piece of chee-bye paper on your car windscreen, the government will have to build less parking spaces and parking ticket machines in a very populated area. For example, there will be only 5 parking lots in an area with 5 billion shops and offices.

This piece of paper is called parking offence ticket, or saman (Malay).

Until today, I already got 6 samans in 6 different places all over Peninsular Malaysia, all for parking offences such as:

1. Didn't show my parking coupons, tickets or whatever it is on my car dashboard (Different places different payment system, how the hell am I suppose to know?!)

2. Park at a yellow-lined roadside (Because there were not enough parking spaces available)

3. Park beside a road junction (Dangerous, I know, but imagine youself finding a parking space for more than 1 hour in a busy town, I'll say you have a very good patience if you keep finding)

4. Didn't pay for my parking fee (I got no coins ma...)

See... I have good reasons for all my offences. I don't understand why the enforcement bodies keep penalizing us normal citizens for minor offences whereas there are so many robbers, snatch thiefs, rapists, car thiefs or cold-blooded killers out there who live happily ever after?

Among all the samans that I got, the one from the Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya remains the most chee-bye saman.

Behold... on the left is the longest saman in Malaysia, don't play play

First of all, it was the longest saman I've ever got, I don't know why they wanted to print such long saman with all the contents of a law book printed on it. Stupid act number 1.

I got that saman because I parked at a yellow-lined roadside. Ok I admit that it's my fault because this may cause foerign investors to have bad impression on Malaysia thus causing a major economic downturn, but isn't it a bit too much to ask for RM100 for a parking offence? I can watch 10 movies at the cinema with that amount of money you know?! Stupid act number 2.

And one more thing, I think the people from the Majlis Bandaraya PJ who saman me must be stupid or he was sleeping while working, because he keyed in my car colour as unknown (tidak jelas). WTF?! Stupidest act ever.

Even a three years old can tell that my car is brown colour ok...

They should hire a smarter people next time.