Residents of landed houses in Lorong Selamat, Penang have raised concerns over falling objects coming from nearby high-rise dwellings.
“I’ll never know when a stone or other items may hit me in the head one day,” said Liew Mee Kin, who had been staying at the two-storey house for over 40 years with nine other family members.
The septuagenarian revealed that stones, slippers, plastic CD covers and even steel items had been thrown from the high-rise apartment at least twice a week.
Her house is among four buildings, which had been the target of said acts of vandalism, reported The Star.
“This has been going on for about three years and luckily, no one has been injured so far,” she said.
For this year, however, the family changed their zinc roofing twice as the impact from the stones damaged their roof.
Liew believes that children from the nearby Taman Manggis flat are the culprits. Four police reports have already been lodged since 8 October 2015, with the latest report made on 13 April.
In fact, her 45-year old son Chan Kam Hin once saw a group of children throw stones at their house.
“The more I asked them to stop, the more stones they would throw,” he said.
Johnny Chee, the personal assistant of Padang Kota assemblyman Chow Kon Yeow, said the roofs of three other houses in Jalan Irrawaddi near Burma Road were also damaged due to falling objects coming from nearby high-rise apartment in the past two years.
“Items such as tops, plastic bottles, stones, water-filled condoms and even coconuts have been thrown from the apartment,” he said.
With this, Tanjong MP Ng Wei Aik called on the state Housing Department to investigate if the tenants of the People’s Housing Project (PPR) at the Taman Manggis flat are responsible for such acts.
“If there is concrete proof that the people responsible are tenants under the PPR, then I urge the department to cancel their PPR contract,” he said.
“Their action is endangering the safety and security of the residents. Although, they may be children, it is still the duty of the parents to monitor them.”
Mangalesri Chandrasekaran, Editor at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact her about this or other stories email mangales@propertyguru.com.my
