KANGAR, Sept 3 — The Murphy’s Law adage is a supposed law of nature which states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

For a teenager who allegedly resorted to crime to make a quick buck yesterday, everything went wrong!

The 16-year-old took his father’s motorcycle and, together with a friend, confronted a 50-year-old trader at the wholesale market in Kampung Sena about 4am.

One of them struck Abdul Karim Abdul Rahman’s hand with an iron bar before making off with the victim’s bag containing RM2,000 and a mobile phone.

In their haste to make their getaway on the motorcycle, the machine skidded and hit a perimeter fence of a house in Jalan Datuk Ahmad here.

Just when they thought nothing else could go wrong, the duo collided head-on with a police patrol car, about 20 minutes later.

For fear that they would be detained by the patrol policemen, they fled from the scene, leaving behind the motorcycle, money, mobile phone and the iron bar.

Kangar police chief Supt Abdul Rahman Mohd Noordin said that when the teenager’s father questioned him over the missing motorcycle, he rushed to the Jitra police station about 11am and lodged a reported that the motorcycle was stolen.

He said the police however, smelled a rat and detained the teenager, adding that they were looking for the suspect’s accomplice. — Bernama