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Iman Muttaqin Yusof

A man has been arrested in Johor after an 11-second viral clip showed him clinging to the front of his ex-wife’s moving car before tumbling onto the road in full view of onlookers.
Police said the suspect had clung to the car for around 2km (1.2 miles) and that he had tested positive for ketamine.
The incident unfolded at about 3.30pm on Saturday outside a supermarket in Bandar Seri Alam, a township in Johor, the southern Malaysian state bordering Singapore, after an argument between the pair spilled onto a public road.
Footage circulating online shows a blue Suzuki Swift moving slowly as the man clings to the bonnet, lifting his legs off the pavement. As the car continues forward, his feet eventually touch the ground and he loses his grip, causing him to fall onto the road.


Seri Alam police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said investigators found that the dispute escalated after the man refused to let go of the vehicle.
“The man climbed onto the bonnet and clung to the front of the car, which was being driven slowly by his ex-wife for about 2km,” he said in a statement on Sunday.
He said the episode did not end there. “A group of men, believed to be the man’s friends, also intercepted the woman’s car. They allegedly extorted her by seizing her belongings and smashing her car window,” Sohaimi said.
Responding to the incident, officers arrested a local man in his thirties at about 2am on Sunday in Masai, near Seri Alam. Police said he had no previous criminal record, but a urine screening later found that he had tested positive for ketamine.

The case comes against a wider backdrop of rising drug abuse in Malaysia.
Official data from the National Anti-Drugs Agency showed the country recorded 192,857 drug and substance abusers and addicts in 2024, up from 145,526 in 2023.
Separate figures released by Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail in May 2025 showed 108,409 users and abusers were detected nationwide in the first quarter of that year alone.
The suspect is being investigated under Section 384 of the Penal Code for extortion, Section 427 for mischief causing damage, and Section 15(1) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for drug consumption.

If convicted, the extortion charge carries a possible jail term of up to 10 years, along with a fine, whipping or both.
Malaysian social media was soon abuzz with users mocking the man’s stunt and supporting the woman’s actions.
One user, Watashi Airien, wrote: “Who would want to keep a husband who takes illegal substances? No wonder he became an ex. If the woman had stopped the car, she would have been the one in danger.”
Another commenter, Fazira Paris, said: “A man testing positive for drugs can even pull a stunt on his ex-wife’s car. Lucky the ex-wife was smart enough to divorce him.”
“She doesn’t want you any more. Why are you clinging on? Just let her go,” said a third user, Fakhrul Yoe.


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Viral clip of Malaysian man clinging to ex-wife’s moving car leads to arrest in Johor

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Police said the man clung to the car for around 2km and that he tested positive for ketamine use