I am a foreigner, living and working in Malaysia, and generally enjoy being here very much. Over the Hari Raya weekend, some friends and I went out to the Kuala Selangor Nature Park, and had a very nice time.

On the way home, the traffic was, as expected, quite heavy, with a lot of motorbikes weaving dangerously in and out between cars, making driving very difficult. At one point, a group of young men came up on either side of our car, with one riding very close to my window and making faces at me (very much resembling the threatening expressions made by the monkeys we had seen earlier that morning at the nature park).

My window was open, and I proceeded to tell the guy off, who continued making faces. Instantly, the group dropped back, only to catch up with us again in a matter of seconds, pelting our car with rocks. Three rocks hit the car, one on the back window (which fortunately did not break). One of the young men (and I use the term 'men' to describe these cowards very loosely) rode up to the driver's side of the car and kicked the side mirror off. We swerved, nearly having an accident, and they sped off before we could so much as get a license plate number.

We pulled over to the side of the road to inspect the damage to our car three dents and a missing side mirror. I had heard of these childish bike gangs (known as Mat Rempit), but did not expect to ever have a run-in with them myself. Not only was the car damaged, but we were very shook up.

The worst thing about this incident is that these dangerous fools continue to get away with this sort of behaviour. So much for the spirit of the holidays I would like to know what is being done about these Mat Rempit, riding around recklessly, ignoring the laws and endangering other people's lives?