Thursday, November 11
*Gasps* A Crime in Singapore!
To get a good idea of how embarassingly and pathetically crime-free sunny Singapore is...one only has to look back to a robbery just 2 days ago...
A man had walked into regional bank Maybank on Tuesday afternoon...grabbed a customer from behind and shouted 'Robbery' ...after a minor scuffle...the man was shot twice by the security officer on duty...once in the head and once in the shoulder...amazingly the man survives...but had to be hospitalised...currently in critical but stable condition...i reckon he'll be charged and given Singapore's anachronistic laws...he'll be slapped with a 10 years jail term and $10,000 fine...or somethin along the lines of that...oh...provided he survives...
But what of the Maybank staff who witnessed the whole incident? Ushered away in security cars for several hours of psychological evaluation...
And the news? Splashed right across the FRONT page of Singapore's national paper...the Straits Times...holy shit...a fuckin robbery...in the front page...now im all for front page news...the launch of a nuclear warhead that went unannounced...the genocide in Sudan being stopped by Bush's incompetent ruling...Paris Hilton fully clothed...or the Singapore Government capitulatin to the minority vote for once...but noooo...some lame ass robbery gets more screen time than more important news...
To get a good idea of how embarassingly and pathetically crime-free sunny Singapore is...one only has to look back to a robbery just 2 days ago...
A man had walked into regional bank Maybank on Tuesday afternoon...grabbed a customer from behind and shouted 'Robbery' ...after a minor scuffle...the man was shot twice by the security officer on duty...once in the head and once in the shoulder...amazingly the man survives...but had to be hospitalised...currently in critical but stable condition...i reckon he'll be charged and given Singapore's anachronistic laws...he'll be slapped with a 10 years jail term and $10,000 fine...or somethin along the lines of that...oh...provided he survives...
But what of the Maybank staff who witnessed the whole incident? Ushered away in security cars for several hours of psychological evaluation...
And the news? Splashed right across the FRONT page of Singapore's national paper...the Straits Times...holy shit...a fuckin robbery...in the front page...now im all for front page news...the launch of a nuclear warhead that went unannounced...the genocide in Sudan being stopped by Bush's incompetent ruling...Paris Hilton fully clothed...or the Singapore Government capitulatin to the minority vote for once...but noooo...some lame ass robbery gets more screen time than more important news...
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