It was definitely a scary meeting. The day started of as usual. It was the day before my exam, last Tuesday to be precise. I went to the Community Centre, as usual, to study. Mas came along as we had planned to study together. An hour plus after, a psycho went into the study room. He definitely looked like a psycho, the way he slammed the door and pressed the buttons on the aircon controller. Mas and I smiled in agreement but we didnt say anything. About 10 minutes later, as Mas and I were about to discuss on one of the questions on the mock exam paper, the guy came and shouted to us, "Can you two girls shut up? I would appreciate it if you two shut up!" He did that at the top of his voice. Then Mas, who is definitely a fighter, started to point out the fact that he lowered down the temperature at 16 degrees when everyone else was feeling cold. He said, "I don't care. I am feeling hot." So what Mas did? She went towards the controller and increased the temperature. Next thing that happened was a push from the pyscho. He pushed he hard I must say. Mas started getting really angry and an argument started. Then in the midst of it, Mas showed him how hard he pushed her, though I must say, not that I am siding her, her push wasnt as hard as his. When Mas pushed him, he suddenly lunged towards her and strangled her on her neck. I was too shock to react. But after getting back my composure, I pulled him from his back, worried that he could cause harm to my friend. He pushed me aside and brushed his long fingers on my arm which resulted with a scratch on my arm. Then we started screaming. By then another girl who was at the study room had gone down to report the case to the staff. We decided to report this nutcase to the police. We went down as well, with him screaming names and vulgarities at us. As we knew we had no time with police report and all, we decided to let the CC called the policce instead.
About 15 to 20 minutes later, the police came and took our statements. Apparently they could not arrest him as it is under involuntary cause of hurt or something along that line. Then, the policewoman even told my friend that she is at fault as she retaliated. As we are tide up with our revision and could not waste time, we decided not to press charges. The crazy dude is freed. However, the CC gave out a letter to inform him that he could not enter the premise again. At least, somehow, at least something was done.
I was rather taken aback by a few things here, first how the authority, in this case, the police reacted to the case. They placed everything in a matter of factly, without considering how we could have felt at that moment, especially after such traumatic incident.
Another issue I was disappointed was how a friend reacted. I mean, if you tell this to anyone, they would not think its funny as it is indeed, not funny. But this friend of mine, laughed and made a joke out of it, which made me pissed. Really showed, how much a friend I am to the person!
