Overhead a mother telling her daughter to be good, or else "the garang-guni man later take you away".
This led me to recall all the various "scare-tactics" that were used by parents. Policemen & Ah-bu-neh-neh are the 2 most commonly used.
No wonder so many of us grow up to be law-abiding racists.
But I can vividly recall a mother using a very original variations to scare her kid.
Instead of the usual "If you are not good, Policeman will catch you", she told her kid
"Don't anyhow run ah ! Later Ah-bu-neh-neh catch mummy, then you have no more mummy ah !"
Wow. The fear of losing his mother is definitely scarier than being kidnapped..
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