One resident living on the second floor of her apartment block in Relau, Penang did have that nasty experience when she stepped out of the lift at 1am yesterday, The Star reported.
Worried for her safety, she immediately called the service team of the Paya Terubong Village Development and Security Committee (JKKK) for help.
The man, who was naked except for a pair of socks and shoes, carried a straw fan in his hand and ignored the woman when she came upon him.
JKKk’s chairman Frankie Kee, who is also special assistant to Paya Terubong assemblyman Yeoh Soon Hin, said a service team member who received the call contacted the police immediately.
“Three of our members went to the scene with the police and the man was still there. He told us that Goddess Mazu had told him to strip,” the English daily reported him as saying.
Despite appeals to put on his clothes, the man refused and only relented when a service team member pretended to be possessed by Goddess Mazu herself.
“He was subsequently taken away by the police,” he said when contacted by The Star.
OCPD Asst Comm Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said the 38-year-old man had been sent to the Jalan Perak psychiatric hospital for observation.