A video of a driver filling up the tank of a Singapore-registered car with subsidised Ron95 petrol in Malaysia has gone viral, with one netizen even accusing her of “robbing a third-world country.”
Facebook user @Jeff Jeffry shared footage of the incident on May 13. According to the accompanying caption, the clip was recorded the day before at a BHP petrol station in Ayer Tawar, a town 60km west of Ipoh, Perak.
The video begins with the pump attendant replacing a yellow pump nozzle – meant for government-subsidised Ron95 fuel meant exclusively for Malaysian citizens.
The man recording the video points out to the pump attendant that the Mercedes-Benz GLC is a Singapore-registered car and accuses the driver of opening the boot lid to conceal its registration plate.
The man tells the driver – a middle-aged woman – that she should not be using Ron95, even going around the car to show the car plate.
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“Sorry, I don’t know,” says the driver in Malay, but the man says it is impossible that she didn’t know the law. She repeats her apology and continues to claim ignorance while the man changes tack, saying she should not apologise to him and that it was the law.
He then claims that it is the petrol station’s fault for allowing her to pump subsidised fuel.
The video ends with the woman explaining that she had asked the pump attendant to fill up her car.
