Posted on 03/05/2015 12:52:29 AM PST by goldstategop
Two German men have been sentenced to three strokes of a cane and nine months in jail in Singapore for vandalism and trespassing.
Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz pleaded guilty to entering a train depot and spraying graffiti on a train.
Singapore has strict laws on vandalism, and has caned and jailed foreigners in the past for the offence.
These include a Swiss national in 2010 and US teenager Michael Fay whose 1994 caning sparked global controversy.
Von Knorre, 22, and Hinz, 21, had flown into Singapore from Australia in November last year and vandalised a train during their stay.
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They got caned for their pains. Its tough love justice in the South-east Asian city state.
In Singapore law and order is strictly enforced.
They extradited these guys from Malaysia. I read recently that in the USA a lot of murders go unprosecuted if they involve extraditing a suspect from another State. These guys are SERIOUS!
They are serious. Once, I forgot their laws about chewing gum and asked for it in a shop in the airport. I didn’t get in trouble but I was sternly reminded of their firm law.
They’re GERMANS! Who would think? The people famous for using washing powder for cleaning streets...
Worked with a guy who wondered why everyone on the bus in Singapore was staring at him. He was chewing gum too. I wonder what their laws are on snuff and chewing tobacco.
Snuff is legal, chewing tobacco is not.
Thanks.
You gotta love it! They are being taken out to the woodshed!
In Singapore, it’s vandalism. Here, it’s art.
Wish we had caning here...jail time for punks is only a resume enhancer. They would better understand pain.
Caning? Start in Washington...
An interesting comparison can be made between Singapore’s approach to polite living, and how Rudy Giuliani cleaned up a lot of New York City.
Singapore typically uses strict fines for any number of gross offenses. A bad one is urinating in elevators, whose fine is a large part of the cost of a new elevator car. And they even have “aesthetic” laws, such as as the long hair on men law. Men can have long hair, but by law, they are to be served last by businesses.
The overall effect is a feeling that Singapore is “uptight”, but at the same time it is very clean and neat, and people who would otherwise be slovenly, gross and messy are not to be found. Which is very easy to get used to.
When Rudy Giuliani decided to clean up NYC, block by block, he sent in a legion of police to drive away the “grossness”, by issuing tickets for even petty offenses that were rude or gross, like spitting on the sidewalk.
And, of course, the street criminals bugged out. They first figured they would come back when the police left, but by then, the mood of the place had changed, and was no longer conducive to what they did.
Along with the wave of officers, was a group who would take over as the permanent detachment for that block. Their job was to get to know everyone who lived there, personally. So that when the majority of the cops left, the detachment would immediately recognize strangers and pay attention to them. So once a block was “cleaned” it was much easier to keep it that way.
Used to work with a guy that was getting transferred to Singapore. He nearly panicked when I informed him that I’d sent him a case of gum for Christmas.
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