Sad news

06-04-09

I heard it from my fren this morning.
I should be happy with last week Individuals & famillies class cancled.
But something which I felt supprise that is Mr Colin,our lecture hit by someone when his was in Sunway Pub.
I found this news from Mmail.com.my


here's the picture captured from CCTV



EVERYONE, including staff and bouncers of the chic Bar Celona in Bandar Sunway, stood by and watched as a Canadian lecturer was set upon by a mob in and out of the club.

This sequence of grabs from CCTV footage at the entrance to the club, provided by the management, show that it was “people freeze” time during the jug of beer fracas.

This brings to a boil the argument between the victim, Colin Boyd Shafer, and the club management whether bouncers were involved in the assault early last Saturday.

Bar Celona operations manager Muhammad Ridzuan Abdul lah had claimed that all the attackers
were patrons and that they did not engage bouncers.

However, a contradictory statement from executive director Roger Hew confirmed the club hired bouncers.

In a statement to Malay Mail, Hew said Bar Celona bouncers had acted to calm the situation and “remove all those involved from our premises for the safety of our patrons” (see accompanying
story).

On why the bouncers did not go to the aid of Shafer and his fellow Canadian lecturer, Nicole Cultraro, Hew said: “Fights happen, we try our best to jump in but we can’t protect everyone
100 per cent of the time. Accidents happen.”

The footage shows, everyone including Muhammad Ridzuan and bouncers, standing by and watching the incident.

The footage however did not contain the scene inside the bar room where someone smashed two bottles twice on Shafer’s head.

The identity of the burly man at the centre of the assault remains a mystery, with the club claiming he was a patron, while Shafer claimed he is a bouncer.

Shafer charged that the big man, wearing a bandana, was the one who hit him with the bottles and led the mob attack in and out of the premises.

CCTV images show the big man could have been the leader as he was in the forefront of the whole attack.

The whole incident at the entrance of the club appeared to resemble a scene out of social network phenomenon “People Freeze”.

Malay Mail yesterday front-paged the incident involving Shafer, 26, and Cultraro, 25, who claimed
they were assaulted by bouncers and staff of Bar Celona — all over a jug of beer.

They had apparently refused to pay for a fourth jug of beer, which they claimed their group,
including two other Canadian lecturers, had not ordered.

Close to a week later, Shafer is recovering but still feels a “sharp pain”. He received 16 stitches to sew up two nasty gashes on his head.

Cultraro ducked a blow from one of the attackers. But she could not avoid a punch to her shoulder.

Shafer maintained yesterday that he received no protection from the club throughout his ordeal.

A mob of about 10 also tried to throw him down an escalator but he held on to the metal rail.

The brawl continued on the street past 3am.The attackers chased them as a large crowd stood by and watched.

The attack revived the controversy about how bouncers do their duties. And the fact that there are no rules to govern their behaviour.

Cases of violence used by some bouncers in entertainment outlets are not new as too many clubgoers have experienced that.

Police have taken the CCTV footage, recorded statements from the complainant and witnesses and are looking for those implicated in the assault, especially the burly man.

Selangor CID chief SAC II Datuk Hasnan Hassan said yesterday that if bouncers were involved, “they had no right to hurt people and cannot overdo things even in the line of their duty”.

He asked that security personnel hired by entertainment outlets be vetted by the establishments.

Shafer is a social science lecturer while Cultraro lectures math, both in a Canadian pre-university programme at a college in Subang Jaya.