Man of Steel in Malaysia!

We do have men of steels in Malaysia and they are quite a number of it. They are not required to wear their underwear on the outside or need to have the “S” logo on the chest. Ironically they do like anything made of steel, iron and especially copper!

Just look at the news and you well notice that our national power provider wires has been stolen, manholes missing and even drain covers lost in action. These are the doing of the illegal Men of Steel.

I do not realize the value of these iron stuffs until one of my friends who like to go to junkyard to get his art stuffs told me that a kilo of copper such as the drain covers can easily fetch RM10-RM12 per kilo. No wonder things are missing. Just imagine a manhole cover which is more than 10kg- RM100 per manhole cover. You just need to get 1 cover per day and your will be earning 3k. 30 manholes missing! That will be dangerous!

Never thought those covers are so valuable! Someone can just earn a living by collecting those.

There are also lots of legal Men of Steel in Malaysia. Just go to any place with lots of junkyard like Sg. Buluh and you can find them collecting none other than iron products. You can easily recognize their nest by seeing the signage such as “Ah Kau Kereta Potong” and such. There will be exhaust pipes, cut off cars and aluminum cans hanging all around. I wonder if I saw any of these cars before in any fatal accidents.

Actually, these places are worth visiting and you may even get their numbers and they will collect scraps from your house for free. When you want to throw out that spoilt microwave oven or fridge, these Men of Steel are really good. They will go to your place FOC and help you carry them off. They can carry a 6 feet 2 door refrigerator with just 2 people. No wonder they are men of steel.

As the saying goes one man’s junk is anther man’s treasure. It’s a good way to recycle and to help Mother Nature too.

Look it’s a bird! No it’s a plane! Nah it is just the Ah Beng wearing steel underwear on the outside.