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Valet boy ( ms, Jaga kereta) is a term used in some countries to refer to young people who ask for fees from those who park at the roadside. Valet boys usually work in groups, and demand an RM 1-5 "parking fee" from car owners, under an agreement that they will protect the car. It is these very same valets, however, who do the vandalizing should the driver refuse to pay. This "protection" service is a form of
extortion Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit through coercion. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence; the bulk of this article deals with such cases. Robbery is the simplest and most common form of extortion, ...
. The valet boys do not park the car for the owner; rather they direct drivers into parking lots. Government needs to get rid of ‘jaga kereta’ menace
/ref> This practice has become common in large Brazilian cities, such as
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and
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, where numerous cases of "valet boys" vandalizing cars are reported every day. Similar schemes are also run in other countries although often the person is not a 'boy'. In the
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, however, this scheme is mostly run by street children. In Indonesia, this practice has become very commonplace and generally accepted that the government hires local mob to collect parking fee. The revenue is usually shared for the local government and the mob.


See also

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Valet A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term "valet ...
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Valet de chambre ''Valet de chambre'' (), or ''varlet de chambre'', was a court appointment introduced in the late Middle Ages, common from the 14th century onwards. Royal households had many persons appointed at any time. While some valets simply waited on t ...
* Trapito * Car guard *
Franelero {{Unreferenced, date=May 2015 Franeleros are people who have as main activity guarding or keeping an eye on cars parked in several streets in certain places in large Mexican cities, getting a tip as a reward, which sometimes is established by them. ...


References


External links


Encarta: definition of ''Jaga kereta''

Bangsar valet boys a nuisance


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