- battered man recalls
The 26-year-old man who was beaten by his drinking-mates last Sunday just after 17:00 hours at a saloon at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara, said yesterday that he had finally remembered the song that irritated the men. Speaking from his hospital bed yesterday, Farouk Hamid said he had been playing the popular Chutney song by the Sugar Cake Girls, “Ya Stupidy, Ya Stupidy, Ya pagalee, Ya pagalee”.
Hamid said, “dem boys [his attackers] din wan de Sugar Cake Girls’ song, dem dey wan bad boys songs but I nah like dah.” The man who had been badly battered was almost cheerful yesterday. “Well I could see through de left eye now and I feeling betta,” he said.
He still did not know, however, if his attackers had been arrested although he had reported the incident to a policeman who visited him at the hospital.
When Stabroek News had visited Hamid, of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, on Monday afternoon in the Open Ward at the George-town Public Hospital, he was crying out in pain.
He had related that he was at the saloon drinking with two men when “one ah dem sey that he nah like de song playing on me music set and he tell me fuh turn it off”.
Hamid had said that when he refused to turn off his CD player, the man scrambled it out of his hands, ran to the door and threw it on the road. He stated that the other man then got up and grabbed him and when the one who had thrown the CD player into the street rejoined them, the two men picked up a glass bottle each and dealt him several blows to his head and body.
Hamid had also noted that when he fell to the ground, the men continued their assault and one of the men later “bruk a glass bottle and start fuh cut me all over me hands with it”. He said that he soon fell unconscious in the saloon and “I wake up in de hospital”.
sad feel better soon hope they caught them.
The men obviously felt that they were Stupidy, and pagalee to be in the company of this man while drinking…….anyway someone was offended that’s why he get beat up!!
………sandhurst!!…….from my understanding their are many, many more like his friends driving around and managing guyana…….“Ya Stupidy, Ya Stupidy, Ya pagalee, Ya pagalee”……….squib, water quality, power outage, domestic abusers, minbus drivers, false business operaters, drugs mules, touts, and more………“Ya Stupidy, Ya Stupidy, Ya pagalee, Ya pagalee”……..
I’m happy he’s feeling better. Never heard of the Sugar Cake girls or their song. Hope they visit him in hospital since he seems to be one of their biggest fans!
Wiffy,believe me when I tell you that you are not missing anything by never hearing that song,you are one of the lucky ones,it would be one of the most unpleasant things you would hear passing itself off as entertainment!!
lol.
Well! That clears things up a bit! Anyway, I’m relieved that he seems to be recovering. I hope all parties involved learn something from this(not too optimistic).
Thanks for clearing that up, Stabroek, thanks for the laugh.
That would explain why these men were so driven to do what they did….though I do not condone that sort of behavour,the song that was being played is the most sensless song I have ever heard,I am surprised that it has’nt caused this kind of incident before.. it would drive anyone nuts…..no one should have to listen to such trash,certainly not in a rum shop,when you are paraletic drunk,LOL!!
Ah! Now it all makes sense. One of the attacker’s (real) first name is Phag and his last name is Lee. Yeah, the song is insulting.
Well, lock up the perpertrators and give them a 24*7 dose of the sugar girls song for six months.
Joe.
joe that would be consider torture.
Joe. Welcome back. Thanks.
Brilliant solution, Joe!
Excellent idea Joe! I second the motion!………….
They need to make restitutions to the injured man. He is a very aimable fellow though, I hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.
Aw Joe you really cruel you know!!
Well Joe the Bummer
I also have a suggestion for you and all the other Pagalies.
Go drink Rum with the 2 stupidee and Hamid will play another song by the SCG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmemEd9IrM
and lets see who the cap will fit…..
These kind of songs are well suited for some guyanese wheather they
live in guyana or overseas.
Its a shame to hear Guyanese bad talking the local music when its so appreciated overseas. Look how the Trinies support their musicians, now wonder they are so far ahead. I think the SCG are very talented and their songs are cultural, its Chutney/Soca genre and if you are narrow minded just dont listen to this type of music and keep your comments to yoursel or better yet…………………..GO GET A LIFE!
VOTE FOR THE SUGAR CAKE GIRLS FOR GUYANA’S FIRST MUSIC AWARD
http://themusicawardsofguyana.com/nominees.html
FINALLY MR HAMID IS GETTING SOMEWHERE WITH HIS HEALTH, THE MEN WERE INDEED STUPIDY AND PAGALEE AND THE FELT MORE AMBARRASSED THET YOU PLAYED IT TO FIT THEIR DESCRIPTION. DONT WORRY WHEN THE POLICE HOLD THEM THEY WILL GET MORE STUPIDY AND EXTRA PAGALEE
They will walk,,,which Judge in his or her right mind after listening to the evidence will find them guilty…LOL. unless he pagalee. LOL.
When Stabroek News reported the men were in a saloon, I got this picture of the old Wild West and such attack/ brannigan is so related to that enviroment. I guess the song hit a nerve becasue the attackers were acting out the lyrics of the song. Those men had to really be indeed ’stupidy’ and ‘pagalee’ to beat up their drink mate like that. I do hope that Mr Hamid come to his senses and we don’t hear from an eyewithness that he was fatally wounded by his drink mates because he refused to turn off, “Rum till I die”