The Royal Malaysian Police drew amused responses online after officers were approached by a driver seeking their help because his phone battery had died, leaving him unable to contact his girlfriend.
A video posted on the Royal Malaysia Police Facebook page yesterday showed the incident, which began when the man stopped his car behind a police vehicle. One of the officers walked over and requested his identification.
“Who are you waiting for?” the officer asked.
“No, I want to ask something. Does your car have a charger? My iPhone battery is dead. I want to pick up my girlfriend but I don’t know how to find her,” the man explained.
The officers, who were heard chuckling in the video, proceeded to ask further questions and discovered that the man had been driving around for 30 minutes in search of his girlfriend, who works at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
“Luckily, I met you,” he said.
After checking the type of cable he required and confirming how long his phone had been dead, one officer replied, “I give you five… ten minutes (to charge the phone).”
“Okay, thank you, thank you,” the man responded enthusiastically.
The dashcam timestamp indicated the footage was recorded on November 19.
In the comments section, a Facebook user joked that the man seemed “more afraid of his girlfriend scolding him than the police,” while another remarked, “Interrogation by a girlfriend or wife is scarier than interrogation by the police.”
