Thief tied up and bound like an animal in Chong Pang

[Lala81]

if robber was FT what wld ppl say?

 

orbi good

[Evillusion]

 

good man you!!

 

what if the shopkeepers charge you $5 per punch, not free, would you have given him a few punches? kidding..

 

not good lar...just a normal guy. Maciam pity the poor fella. Who had never gone Peninsula and did sime shoplifting from the friendly mamak uncle. He just suay to be caught thats all!

[OmOm]

Kudos to you for your compassionate heart.

 

Two wrongs do not make things right. The thief was wrong to steal. However tying him up until his legs and hands turn purple with poor blood circulation is not right too.

 

When we view things with anger and hatred in our heart, our thoughts will be tainted with anger and hatred and they prevent us from doing what will be beneficial to everyone in the long run.

 

During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, crime rate was very low. In spite of people being half-starved, few dared to steal from any one else because of the terrible punishments that happened to those who did and were caught. Hands and arms of thieves were chopped off without any trial.

 

Can we then say that such harsh penalties are justifiable because they kept the crime rate low?

 

Violence begets violence. It goes around in a vicious circle.

 

The thief suffered the humiliation and pain because of his actions. That is his karma.

 

Those who inflicted humiliation and pain on him because of anger and hatred generate karma with their actions as well.

 

Only through compassion and not violence can this vicious cycle of anger and hatred be stopped.

 

 

 

If one take a look at the leg, the tie was so tight if no blood circulation to his leg for 1 hour, he will lose his leg ...

 

Its very common when such incident happen on the spot and the peoples around at the spur of moment will be very angry and do thinks which one do not take into consideration of the safety of another. The anger in their mind had overcome the compassionate feeling and will throw everything which they can think off at the criminal.

 

I understand most peoples feeling but the aftermath if the criminal become disable which become the liability of tax payers money to see him through his life.

 

Lets the Court do the punishment, afterall the judges are paid to do their job....

 

[Sabian]

Quote

"An attempted theft at a crowded Yishun market on Tuesday morning sparked a short but chaotic chase and a violent struggle before the alleged culprit was apprehended.

Even after seven men caught up with the man, he put up a fierce fight before they pinned him down.

That did not stop his aggressive behaviour, so they restrained his arms and legs with cable ties.

The suspect still tried to bite off the cable ties to free himself but was unsuccessful, a witness told The New Paper.

The police arrived soon after and arrested the man. Read the full report in The New Paper on Wednesday (Dec 04)."

Unquote.

Given the circumstances described above, I don't think those who apprehended him will entertain any suggestion to treat him as per "Geneva Convention" guidelines.

Next time, if you get robbed, make sure you provide Simmons Backcare Mattress for his aching back till the mata arrive, ok?

Edited December 4, 2013 by Sabian

[Count-Bracula]

 

if the crab man is not free, can ask the bah-zang (rice dumplings) man to tie? if even bah-zang man is also busy, try the kopi auntie who ties plastic bags dabao kopi-0 everyday

 

Har har har!!

[Tedlhw]

Quote

"An attempted theft at a crowded Yishun market on Tuesday morning sparked a short but chaotic chase and a violent struggle before the alleged culprit was apprehended.

Even after seven men caught up with the man, he put up a fierce fight before they pinned him down.

That did not stop his aggressive behaviour, so they restrained his arms and legs with cable ties.

The suspect still tried to bite off the cable ties to free himself but was unsuccessful, a witness told The New Paper.

The police arrived soon after and arrested the man. Read the full report in The New Paper on Wednesday (Dec 04)."

Unquote.

Given the circumstances described above, I don't think those who apprehended him will entertain any suggestion to treat him as per "Geneva Convention" guidelines.

Next time, if you get robbed, make sure you provide Simmons Backcare Mattress for his aching back till the mata arrive, ok?

 

Actually under Geneva Convention, if the POW try to escape, he can be shot....

So if we extrapolate here....

Edited December 4, 2013 by Tedlhw

[Celicar]

Actually, I think the thinner cable ties will be more painful, because they will cut more into the skin.

 

Anyway, to those who take the moral high ground, I think it is easy to do so after the event and when you don't suffer from the incident. If you are as cool and detached about it when it happens to you personally or to someone who matters a whole lot to you, then we talk. In such a situation, what kind of restraint is appropriate? Those with fur and padding? Talk to him nicely and request he don't run, say please and thank you? Take the chance to talk to him about compassion and conscience while remembering to smile all the time? You can bet your bottom dollar if he sees that giving you a good punch to the eye will ensure that he can escape, he will.

 

I can understand how rooting for the underdog can invoke a sense of feeling good about yourself, but please, all this talk about maybe he is bound by circumstance and how he has fallen on hard times are just pure speculation. Then why not speculate that he is inherently a bad person or he is a serial thief? What is beyond speculation, as far as I'm concerned, is he stole. I don't think he is the only one in his kind of situation and not everyone of them is a thief. If his deeds actually garnered him more pity than the next person who is in equally if not more trying situation actually tried to make an honest living by, say, selling tissue paper and you don't buy, then there is something very perversely wrong.

 

 

errrr............. 3 or 4 (1/2 inches) cable ties on his legs ....

 

[Maseratigood]

not good lar...just a normal guy. Maciam pity the poor fella. Who had never gone Peninsula and did sime shoplifting from the friendly mamak uncle. He just suay to be caught thats all!

 

 

I guess with the punches he received from more than one guy, he has suffered enough as a result of what he himself started in the first place (stealing).

[Hamburger]

Kudos to you for your compassionate heart.

 

Two wrongs do not make things right. The thief was wrong to steal. However tying him up until his legs and hands turn purple with poor blood circulation is not right too.

 

When we view things with anger and hatred in our heart, our thoughts will be tainted with anger and hatred and they prevent us from doing what will be beneficial to everyone in the long run.

 

During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, crime rate was very low. In spite of people being half-starved, few dared to steal from any one else because of the terrible punishments that happened to those who did and were caught. Hands and arms of thieves were chopped off without any trial.

 

Can we then say that such harsh penalties are justifiable because they kept the crime rate low?

 

Violence begets violence. It goes around in a vicious circle.

 

The thief suffered the humiliation and pain because of his actions. That is his karma.

 

Those who inflicted humiliation and pain on him because of anger and hatred generate karma with their actions as well.

 

Only through compassion and not violence can this vicious cycle of anger and hatred be stopped.

 

 

 

 

i clap for you.....from the bottom of my heart.

 

bottom line...nobody would want to be bald headed if he or she got hair. We should try to show more empathy rather than to judge or gloat.

 

This is how we may progress in a society.