Actually if it’s the one I am thinking of, the kid was a spoiled American and his daddy was a US corporate exec in Singapore. He was “keying” cars. If I remember this right he got the whacks but not the full number required for that vandalism crime. These weren’t “love taps”, they were administer by a trained guy.
No — it was a different incident. The one I’m thinking about was definitely a local citizen of Singapore in a well-connected political family.