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’re GERMANS! Who would think? The people famous for using washing powder for cleaning streets...
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.
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.