Night rider romeo haunts A'pura

Chitraratna KALUARACHCHI - Hidogama group corr.

An unidentified man who has applied grease all over his body haunting at night has driven fear into the minds of residents in Periyakulama, Hahanelubewa, Athuruwella, Vijayapura and Anuradhapura Municipal Council area in recently.

Residents said the man who has been named as Grease Yaka used various ruses to enter houses at night.

The man who has grease all over his body to make him slippery when anyone tries to catch him had a soft corner for women.

Sometimes he opens water taps outside houses at night to make inmates open doors and stealthily enter houses when they go to close the taps. Otherwise he entered houses at night by removing roof tiles. Many women have reported the loss of their underwear hung in clothes lines following his advent. He is also a peeping tom who loved to gaze at women bathing in bathrooms and bathing spots.

Some men who have teamed up to be on the lookout for this romeo type night rider are spending sleepless nights to nab him. Women folk too have come forward to assist them armed with clubs and other missiles they could lay their hands on.