- 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”.
yOU GUYS ARE FUNNY LMAO, JOE THAT WAS HILARIOUS CAN’T STOP LAUGHING
wow! I don’t know what’s more pathetic…. the fact that this incident ACTUALLY happened or that it made the news?!?!?!?
Glad to hear Hamid is feeling better now. When he comes out from the hospital he should get himself involved in useful community activities. Go and cut the grass in the Masjid yard, wash and clean the place, and go help the old people in your village do their marketing and house work. Anyways, you look good in the clean hospital pyjamas, the licks you got made you look really bad. Your friends beat you for real.
By the way, nice name.
No surprise that song is irritating…joe’s suggestion is worth a try.
The tone of the responses on this seem to think that the men were justified in beating up Hamid. Since when it is okay to beat someone because you don’t like the music they are playing on their “PERSONAL” music player. Jail them.
I think everyone is missing the point,, JOHN MANGER who lives in the worst oppressed country CANADA wrote that everyone has the right to play their music, and if you don’t like it leave, hence him living in Canada, because in the United States when you go to a club and you don’t like the music, the D J has one choice and one choice only, CHANGE THE MUSIC or lose your set and possible your life. People,,,,you have the right to play any kind of music IN A RESPONSIBLE MANNER, however you CANNOT infringe on someone elses rights to secure yours,,,THAT’S JUST NOT THE WAY IT WORKS.
No, of course it isn’t okay to beat up somebody. But life in Guyana is a tragicomedy.
These are the Sugar Cake Girls in all their glory. Watch here: ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4Va2Dv078
JOHN MANGER,,,I am calling you out,,,It’s no wonder why you live in OPPRESSED Canada. Sir, there are rights and responsibilities, sure you do have a right, but….along with those rights, you have a responsibility to RESPECT other people’s rights, just as you have the rights to drive a car, but you are responsible for operation that car in a safe and responsible manner. You have the right to play your music in Canada, as long as it cannot be heard from the streets, isn’t that a fact, so don’t preach rights to me.
Linguslion, I totally agree with your blog. It seems to me that they think it is okay to do what these knuckleheads did to Mr. Hamid. Please make sure that they get JAIL with No Bail.
GY has finally found their Secret weapon for fighting crime – The Sugar Cake Girls. Mr Greene please equipped all your mobile units with this song…so when the bandits hear it …they would be so irritated that they would have no choice but to come out of their hiding place….and bam! problem solved.
LOL
Friends like that who needs enemies!!