The difficulty regarding parking touts, or jaga kereta, isn’t new, with enforcement probably not eliminating the presence of those people. The issue isn’t confined to only the Klang Valley, however as current incident confirmed, it’s fairly rampant in sure areas within the metropolis, and it may possibly additionally get ugly.

As highlighted by the New Straits Instances, a girl found that her automobile was scratched after refusing to pay the RM15 payment demanded by jaga kereta for parking in a public spot within the Bukit Bintang Maybank space.

In a TikTok video, person @ballerina391 detailed the incident, stating that the touts threatened her for not paying them for the parking spot. In addition they apparently informed her that each one the parking spots within the space was “theirs,” and so they had set a value of RM15 for every automobile utilizing these areas.

As a result of she refused to pay them, the girl mentioned she got here again to discover a lengthy scratch on the door of her automobile. Her put up obtained feedback from different netizens, who mentioned that they had additionally confronted comparable fee requests within the space. Generally, nothing occurs if you don’t pay, however as this example reveals, touts might be vindictive and precise retribution.

The decision for authorities to behave and deal with the jaga kereta difficulty has additionally been completed earlier than, however even when it does work, it solely does for some time, with the pests showing once more when enforcement dies down. Do you suppose the issue might be eradicated? Share your ideas with us within the feedback part.

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