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Does anyone remember (I think it was Singapore) where an American kid spat on the street.. or something? He was handed jail time and caning.


9 posted on 03/01/2017 10:54:29 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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"Does anyone remember (I think it was Singapore) where an American kid spat on the street.. or something? He was handed jail time and caning.

Yup. I remember that.

10 posted on 03/01/2017 10:56:10 AM PST by blam
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He spray painted cars...............


11 posted on 03/01/2017 10:57:43 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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Michael Fay was found guilty of vandalism (spray paint graffiti?).


26 posted on 03/01/2017 11:43:40 AM PST by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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“Does anyone remember (I think it was Singapore) where an American kid spat on the street.. or something? He was handed jail time and caning.”

I believe he vandalized a car.


30 posted on 03/01/2017 12:05:59 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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The kid was a teenager and he vandalized cars and some other property. He was tried and sentenced to be caned, ten strokes if my memory serves (and it probably doesn’t). Clinton tried to get the kid released but the Singapore authorities went ahead with a (well deserved and appropriate in my opinion) butt whipping with a rattan cane. Their country, their laws, their mode of punishment. Discipline is taken seriously in a Confucian culture, upon which Singapore consciously models theirs.


38 posted on 03/01/2017 1:34:11 PM PST by katana (It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
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