A lone banana became one of the most valuable things ever in the country when a man traded away more than three years of his life for it.
What was meant to be a month's stint in prison turned into a a whole lot more jail time (and caning as well) for 38-year-old Muhammad Fazil Salleh, who was really, really mad that a fellow inmate took an extra banana at lunch.
The New Paper reports that Fazil got into a verbal dispute with 33-year-old Puspanathan Ramachandran during lunchtime at Admiralty West Prison last April. In a burst of anger, Fazil slapped Puspanathan, kneeing him in the chest and the face, even when the latter had already fallen down.