'Gentlemen tak?': Grocery shop punch-up ends up in a handshake for unity

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Two angry men – a shop owner and a drunken customer – who went viral with their brawl inside a grocery store in Seberang Jaya, Penang last week have reconciled in the spirit of unity.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/7oJQ5  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The two angry men who went viral with their brawl inside a grocery store in Penang have

00:07reconciled in the spirit of unity.

00:10They reached an agreement to withdraw their case during a meeting with an investigating

00:14police officer on Monday.

00:16Last week, the duo threw punches at each other, following a misunderstanding caused by a request

00:21for liquor by the drunken customer.

00:31Forty-nine-year-old Goh Yap Eng, who is the store owner, admitted that his involvement

00:35in the brawl sent the wrong message to the pluralistic country.

00:39He said the incident had made him reflect on his mistakes.

00:43He said he and the customer are OK now after they settled the case at the police station

00:48on Monday.

00:50He said they had apologized to each other, and he had advised the customer to give up

00:55liquor if he could not control himself when he was drunk.

01:00The store owner, who is a certified taekwondo instructor, said he had once aspired to become

01:05a martial artist, but he decided to drop the idea and run his father's business.

01:11Penang Police Chief Commissioner Datuk Hamza Ahmad said the case has now been classified

01:17as no further action.

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