February 01, 2009

The day I'd never forget



It happened on 9 January 2009. I was on the way back home from SMKN 2o where I teach 12th graders every Friday. As usual, I took metromini 610 to Pondok Labu. The metromini was on Jalan Fatmawati right at the T-junction Dapur Susu when suddenly ....a green old-type 'kijang' cut the metromini in.

It seemed that the driver (and the passangers) of kijang didn't like the way the driver of metromini cut in their way. Four men (three young men and one elderly man) burst out from kijang, knocked on the metromini's driver door harshly, pulled the driver out, and bit him up.

All female passangers could just scream. He ran back into his bus, but those men ran after him and bit him up again on the bus. Then, one of the man pulled out ...the gun!
Yes. The gun! I thought I would have seen a man with a gun in movies only. We female passangers kept screaming...and no body got out from the bus. That really amazed me. I guessed we didn't want to leave the driver alone.

Then, a woman who has a nice face and wears veil showed her face from kijang, waved her hand, urged those men (I assumed they're all family) to stop and get back to their car. Three of them stopped bitting the driver and got back to the car. The man with a gun stayed for a couple of minutes, still yelled at the driver and pointed the gun to the driver.

Female passangers yelled back at him, told him that he's arrogant and so on. Finally, He got off from the bus and went back to the car which left in a hurry. I wrote down the car's number, but I didn't do anything about it. I was just shocked! I didn't report it to police nor write a letter to any newspaper.

what a crazy arrogant high-tempered man! What a country....