stupid rules

Nation Monday March 6, 2006
Man’s wish dies with him in fire
BY RUBEN SARIO

KOTA KINABALU: He was waiting to turn 60 so that he could qualify for a place at an old folks home.

Lee Ah Khiong, 59, never made it there as he died in a fire that broke out at the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) Sabah headquarters near here around 8am yesterday. He had been waiting for nearly a year to be sent to an old folks home by the state Welfare Department.
Sabah MRCS chairman Datuk William Chai said Lee, a Sarawakian, was supposed to be at the MRCS headquarters for only a week in March last year.

However, he ended up staying there for nearly a year while waiting for arrangements for him to move to the Sri Prichard senior citizens home. Firemen found his body in a storeroom.
The fire gutted the MRCS ground floor store where piles of donated clothing were kept and also damaged the society’s office upper floor of the two-storey building. The cause of the blaze is still unknown.

At the time of his application, he was not old enough to qualify for care in the senior citizens' home where the minimum admission age was 60 years.

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DAMM rules that always appear to make people suffer..Now u see the news & tell me, IS this fair? I wonder why do they need to have all this rules ler....jus a year only! haih! wana knock the rules down la!