Frustrated Tycoon Shoots Out Jet’s Tire

Fed up with lost luggage and flight delays, the head of Cambodia’s chamber of commerce took out his frustration by shooting a tire on a parked jet.

Teng Boonma, believed to be Cambodia’s richest businessman, ordered a bodyguard to fetch him a pistol after disembarking Monday from the Royal Air Cambodge plane that brought him home from Hong Kong. He flattened the tire with a single shot.

“I know it was wrong to do that,” an unrepentant Teng Boonma said. “But I only regret that I did not get to shoot the other three tires.”

No immediate action was taken against the powerful tycoon, who has large real estate holdings.

Teng Boonma complained that he was simply fed up with Royal Air Cambodge, a joint venture between Malaysian Helicopter Services and the Cambodian government. The breaking point Monday appeared to be a $4,000 excess luggage charge.