Man pays high price for coming home late

BAD luck came in threes for a man who was shut out of his house for coming home late.

He was then mugged in a nearby park and accused of planning a robbery in the neighbourhood.

Following the chain of events, the 21-year-old victim was left bleeding with head and body injuries.

He also lost a motorcycle, cash, a gold chain and a handphone.

The total losses that the victim incurred was estimated to be about RM5,000, reported Harian Metro.

It all started when the man came home late from the movies on Sunday.

His parents refused to let him in, prompting him to wander off to a nearby park at Taman Seraya, Ampang, and call up a friend to accompany him till morning.

A group of six men then came along at 4am and asked what they were doing there.

The victim tried to explain that his parents had locked him out of the house but they did not believe him.

The men accused the victim and his friend of planning to break into a house.

One of them slapped him, causing his friend to flee in fright.

The man gripped the victim's hands and hit him with a metal chain while another person used a hard object to bash his head.

The victim later filed a police report at the Pandan Indah police station.

Love letter arrives 53 years late

An American man has been notified that he will receive a love letter from his college sweetheart 53 years after it was originally posted.

BBC News reports that the letter was sent to Clark C. Moore back in 1958, but never arrived.

The love letter somehow resurfaced at a Pennsylvanian university mailroom in early July, but attendants struggled to track Moore down because he had since changed his name to Muhammad Siddeeq.

"We have a system here in America where if something is for you and if they find it, it gets to you," Siddeeq told WTAE, after receiving news that his long-lost love letter was finally on its way.

"[It is] a testament of the sincerity, interest, and innocence of that time," he added.

The 74-year-old Siddeeq was married to the sender, and the two had four children together, although they have since divorced.