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A woman named Adila parked her car in an empty bay at a flat complex in Kajang.
No number on the bay, no rental fee required and first come, first served — the standard definition of public parking.
She came back to find a note under her wiper.
The note told her she had taken someone else’s spot.
It told her not to play dumb and leave her contact number next time.
It told her, in capital-letter certainty, that this was someone’s parking spot and she had no right to it.
Adila posted the note on Threads, and a day later, at the time of writing, the post had drawn 2,800 likes and 200 comments.
The Note, and the Facts It Did Not Mention
The note, written by hand, read:
Kalau masuk parking orang, tolong tinggalkan no telefon. Jangan buat bodoh. Ini tempat parking saya. Faham? Susah cari awak satu flat — tak ada orang kenal kau. Lain kali jangan parking tempat saya.
If you park in someone’s spot, leave your number. Don’t play dumb. This is my parking. Understand. Hard to find you in the whole block — nobody knows you. Don’t do it again.
No name, no unit number and no bay number either, because there was none to give.
Adila’s caption made the legal point plainly:
Kotak kosong, xde no petak, xkena bayar sewa — parking awam lah kan?
Empty box. No bay number. No rental fee. Public parking.
She was right; under Section 50(3) of the Road Transport Act 1987, reserving a public bay is an offence carrying up to a RM2,000 fine or six months in jail — the law does not specify that the object used has to be a traffic cone.
There Was No Complaint Form for This, So She Posted
She was not just venting; she wanted to know where to file a complaint.
The post ended with a genuine question: “Mana nak buat aduan?” — where do I even report something like this?
The note did not address any of that.
The writer’s complaint was that Adila had parked without leaving a contact number, making her impossible to find.
Adila’s response was to post the note publicly, where 2,800 people found her just fine.
The writer, who wanted to be found, left no details, and Adila, who was accused of hiding, went viral — though she was hardly the first Malaysian to post about it; complaints about “chop parking” have filled Malaysian timelines for years.
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