Imagine if you will that you are stopped at a traffic light.
From behind you you hear a loud noise that sounds like a lawnmower engine coming closer.
Then a small-engine motorcycle comes up from behind you, weaving through the cars to get to the front of the line.
Imagine that you are driving and out of nowhere 5 small-engine motorcycles coming flying around you from all sides, or in a line, or however randomly the drivers feel like.
Imagine the a small-engine motorcycle cuts you off so close you could sneeze and kill the motorcycle rider.
Imagine that these small-engine motorcycles are driven like powered bicycles. They are "protected" by the government because they are not wrapped in a metal shell. So these riders take it for granted that you in a car will watch out for them.
These same riders will yell horribly at you even if they are the ones who hit you. They will demand compensation if they are involved in an accident with a car. No matter who's fault it is!
Imagine that the streets rumble like a swarm of angry-bees with these damnable powered-bicycles they call motorcycles.
Imagine that the drivers of cars have taken to driving their cars much like the method used by motorcyclists.
Courtesy, turn signals, speed limits, one-way roads, traffic regulations, imagine that none of these are followed and there are almost NO police monitoring the situation or doing anything to enforce the rules.
Are you done imagining all of that? Then, I want to say this to you:
"Welcome to Pulau Pinang!"
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