Everyone has vague memories of bizarre incidents in their lifetime, things happening in the country before there were WhatsApp, Reddit and the social media. Things that people would find difficult to believe if they didn’t see it with their own eyes. Some happened to their close ones, some they heard from the grapevines. As time passed by, details of those events got lost in memory. But, here are some of them.

Stucky Situation. Sometimes in the 80s, a couple decided to get it on at Bukit Saeh in Lumapas. However, they were faced with “separation” issues when they guy couldn’t detach himself from the girl. When all DIY efforts failed, they had no choice but to seek help. Wrapped in a blanket like a burrito, they were taken to the hospital in an ambulance where they were finally set free.

Team Spirit. One night in the early 1990s, a routine briefing by a military officer somewhere in the remote jungle area was interrupted when a Gurkha soldier, who joined the local troop in the jungle operation, suddenly acted strange. He shouted insults and mimicked the officer in a mocking way. It was clear to everyone there that he was “not being himself”, that he was possessed because he was talking in the local kedayan language, fluently. Things got hectic as he became delirious and unruly. They had to subdue him by physically restraining him. He later snapped out of it and had to be airlifted out.

Cutastrophic Dismemberment. In 2001, police were called to Kg. Perpindahan Mata-Mata where a 34-year-old local man, believed to be of unsound mind, had cut off his pecker in a fit of rage. At the scene, there were a lot of blood, but the police couldn’t find the tool that the man had used. He was then brought to the hospital for treatment. The fate of the “victim” of the slaying was not known.

Bad Break. In the 1980s, a high school girl had smuggled a test tube out of the school’s lab and brought it back to her hostel’s room for an after-school experiment. It did not, however, play out as she had hoped. In a stroke of misfortune, the test tube broke while in action.

Where There’s A Wheel There’s A Way. One late afternoon in 2001, a lady who was driving along the Muara-Tutong highway noticed that the car behind her was flashing its headlights. She slowed down and as the car overtook, the man driving the car was pointing at her car’s tyre and signalling for her to stop and so she did. At the roadside, the man offered to change her tyre and asked her to get the tyre jack. She went to the boot and as she returned with the tyre jack, the man said he was mistaken and there was actually nothing wrong with the tyre. It was a false alarm, the lady thought. It was only later that she realised that her handbag was gone.

Far Fetched. One morning in 2009, a car flew into a classroom at a school in Kg Mulaut. An Indonesian man who was driving the car was fetching his employer’s kid from the school. When he was about to park the car, instead of pressing the brake pedal, he accidentally stepped on the accelerator and the car went straight towards the classroom at high speed, hit a road separator, went airborne and flew straight into the classroom. Fortunately there was no class in session at that time, but a teacher who was sitting on her chair was thrown to the floor, although suffering just minor injuries.

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