[WillamShakespeare]

Exactly. Any country that whips the flesh right off your arse for doing something as little as spitting gum out in the street is not a country you want to screw with much less even get near. Why I keep reading about people smuggling drugs of all things into this country is something I`ll never understand in a million years, and it always seems to be people from Australia. The last was that woman who was busted last year.

[maui_hawaii]

Maybe this brainiac was doing a little too much of his own product.

[DTogo]

Spitting gum on the street (littering) is punishable by a S$300 fine if my memory serves me correctly. No caning for littering.

[DB]

The woman busted last year claimed it wasn't hers.

Which may have been the case. Airline baggage handlers are known to add things to other peoples luggage to get it from one place to another. Then their partners at the other end remove it before the owner of the baggage gets it back.

My biggest issue with all this is, if your going to make the punishment extreme, you have to make sure the person is guilty of doing it. In the case of this particular woman, it was highly debatable.