- 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”.
ya gotta be kidden right?
Well brother boy, anytime drinking again try not to play da ting again, when the agressors are caught no bail and jail!
You see what one song can do.
this will answer Mr. Gordon Mosley question in Stabroek news 19th Nov, letter to editor…..
This is a WARNING to all the DRINKERS out there in GY land…The SUGAR CAKE GIRLS ARE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH! Nuff said!
HAHAHAAA IF IT AIN’T THE SUGAR IS DE RUM…!!
AND YES I AGREE WITH MY FRIEND , LOCK THEM UP AND NOT ONLY PLAY THE SUGAR CAKE GIRLS’ SONG, BUT ALSO “RUM TILL I DIE” HAHAHAA
The Sugar Cake girls are up for an Accolade Award for Chutney Band of the year…if they don’t win at least they gained more popularity!
Everybody’s fuse is too short these days, they need to lay in their hammocks and sip on some coconut water…leave the fire water alone man.
……..tessa!!……..guyana is no joke!…..with vat and this finicial melt down things are very tight in the country…….and everyone have to take good care as to where he or she steps…….this is no joke…..water/electricty in and out…….the avrage joe and mary finds it difficult to to survive on their earnings…….the only thing to tame this situtation down is rum…..
No wonder the guys were offended. This song obviously touched their funny-bones or mashed their corns.
ha,ha, funny, i dont know that song at all, my guess is that the song was referring to the one who delt the blows, ya stupidy, ya pagalee, lol maybe he was???.
Big mistake on his part , maybe if he had played ‘ rum til i die ‘ they might not beat him up at all . Ha .
Hope he gets well and think better and avoid the bottle . He should then sit down and listen carefully to the ‘ sugar cake song.’ Cause it says ‘ ya stupidy , ya pagalee ‘ . This should turn on the light bulb for him , hopefully .
well I hope the copy of the song he was beaten for was a legit copy and not a pirated copy, maybe that is the reason he was beaten.
well it was obviously the pirated one, i think the reason he was beaten was cause he didnt want to tell the two men where to obtain a copy of this pirated song that reminded all 3 of them of themselves.