 The Star - Wed, 15 June 2005 (pg.20) - shows not a trapeze act by the school children but the act of crossing an 80m-wide Sungai Sapulut on a rickety suspension bridge that is nothing more than a few cables strung across the waterway to go to Sekolah Kebangsaan Labang (in Sabah).
With their shoes inside their school bags, the children aged seven ti 12 walk barefoot on the lower cable with hands grasping the upper cable. The bridge has been damaged three times over the past seven years and the villages managed to repair it twice. Nabawan district officer said that repair work on the bridge would be carried out as soon as possible.
Let us hope nothing untoward will happen to the children in the meantime. Hmmm .. wonder what the bridge would look like if an important person need to cross it .. aiyaa, tak tau lah ...
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Malaysian mentality.. They (the autority) will take action only after the issues is highlighted in the media or after someone died.