VIDEO MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS
KUALA LUMPUR: Motorcycle helmets are supposed to protect you from harm – but a young rider in northern Malaysia discovered a “plot twist” when putting on his protective headgear recently.
While donning his bike helmet a few days ago, the young man felt something wriggling in the left ear concavity of the fit padding.
In a panic, he quickly removed the helmet and glanced at its interior – and saw something briefly emerge from the ear concavity, before disappearing.
Placing the helmet on the ground, the youth then hurried to fetch two things – a screwdriver with which to draw out whatever it was that had ensconced itself in his helmet; and a friend who would help him document the event with a mobile phone video camera.
A 27-second video clip of the extraction of the helmet hermit opens with the young man very coolly poking a hollow in the fit padding of his helmet. A scramble of flailing, unidentifiable insect parts appears momentarily, only to retreat into the hollow.
Undaunted, the youth – his fingers alarmingly close to the hollow – persists with his indiscriminate jabbing.
The footage suddenly cuts to a pair of pliers clutching the camera shy helmet invader – a squirming, half foot-long (and undoubtedly venomous) centipede.
The camera pans to the face of the young man, who seems more amused than horrified by his gory catch. He smiles down at the angry, writhing arthropod almost with pride.
The rest of us would have probably sprinted in the opposite direction, with the speed of a thousand legs.