The continuing GLOBAL stressful thread! Part III

[Volvobrick]

On 8/23/2024 at 12:52 PM, Jamesc said:

I die die must drive lane 1! 

 

Motor also see car signal bo hiu, well deserved it. 

[Jellandross]

Really throw man face beat woman puiz!

 

 

Edited August 23 by Jellandross

[SGMCF328]

Rob don't read, Read don't rob! Hahahaha

Burglar caught in Italy after pausing to read a book mid-robbery, author offers to gift a copy

Source: https://mustsharenews.com/burglar-book-robbery/

In a twist straight out of a literary plot, a burglar in Italy was apprehended earlier this week after he paused mid-robbery to read a book about Homer’s Iliad.

While engrossed in the book, the burglar was interrupted when the homeowner awoke and confronted him.

Startled, the thief fled through the balcony — the same entrance he had used to access the flat.

According to the BBC, the 38-year-old thief had broken in and discovered the book lying on a bedside table.

He became so engrossed in reading it that he lost sight of his original criminal intent.

Unfortunately for him, the 71-year-old homeowner soon stirred and confronted the intruder.

The thief made a frantic attempt to escape through the balcony but was quickly apprehended by authorities.

He told police he had climbed the building to visit a friend and thought he had ended up in a B&B, leading him to pause and read the book.

Authorities also discovered a bag of expensive clothing in his possession, allegedly stolen from another house earlier that evening.

News that his book thwarted a robbery reached Giovanni Nucci, the author behind ‘The Gods at Six O’Clock’.

This work offers a unique retelling of Homer’s Iliad from the viewpoint of the Greek gods.

Nucci was both amused and flattered by the incident.

“It’s fantastic,” he said. “I’d like to find the person caught red-handed and give him the book, because he’ll have been arrested halfway through reading it. I’d like him to be able to finish it.”

Adding a humorous twist, Nucci noted his fondness for Hermes, the Greek god of thieves and literature.

“It is clear: everything fits,” he quipped.

[Stary]

On 8/28/2024 at 1:39 PM, SGMCF328 said:

Rob don't read, Read don't rob! Hahahaha

Burglar caught in Italy after pausing to read a book mid-robbery, author offers to gift a copy

Source: https://mustsharenews.com/burglar-book-robbery/

In a twist straight out of a literary plot, a burglar in Italy was apprehended earlier this week after he paused mid-robbery to read a book about Homer’s Iliad.

While engrossed in the book, the burglar was interrupted when the homeowner awoke and confronted him.

Startled, the thief fled through the balcony — the same entrance he had used to access the flat.

According to the BBC, the 38-year-old thief had broken in and discovered the book lying on a bedside table.

He became so engrossed in reading it that he lost sight of his original criminal intent.

Unfortunately for him, the 71-year-old homeowner soon stirred and confronted the intruder.

The thief made a frantic attempt to escape through the balcony but was quickly apprehended by authorities.

He told police he had climbed the building to visit a friend and thought he had ended up in a B&B, leading him to pause and read the book.

Authorities also discovered a bag of expensive clothing in his possession, allegedly stolen from another house earlier that evening.

News that his book thwarted a robbery reached Giovanni Nucci, the author behind ‘The Gods at Six O’Clock’.

This work offers a unique retelling of Homer’s Iliad from the viewpoint of the Greek gods.

Nucci was both amused and flattered by the incident.

“It’s fantastic,” he said. “I’d like to find the person caught red-handed and give him the book, because he’ll have been arrested halfway through reading it. I’d like him to be able to finish it.”

Adding a humorous twist, Nucci noted his fondness for Hermes, the Greek god of thieves and literature.

“It is clear: everything fits,” he quipped.

a sign of ADHD, cannot focus and easily distracted....

I want to check out that book though....😆

Edited August 28 by Stary

[macrosszero]

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/one-person-dies-in-blaze-outside-potong-pasir-flat
 

Not in Yishun but what a way to go… 

[mersaylee]

On 8/28/2024 at 2:05 PM, Stary said:

a sign of ADHD, cannot focus and easily distracted....

I want to check out that book though....😆

Stupiak...should have targeted a library...at least can say too engrossed until overstay if kena caught...😁

[Beehive3783]

On 8/19/2024 at 7:21 PM, Atonchia said:

https://gutzy.asia/2024/08/19/netizens-back-punggol-residents-actions-against-troubling-teenagers-criticize-police-inaction/

 

I don't support taking action into own hands. 

But if police and parents don't care.... Definitely some one will care enough to take action.

The only time you will really see police is when they are buying meals at the hawker centre. And you will see a whole bloody platoon of them, not just 1 or 2!  

[mersaylee]

On 8/29/2024 at 10:55 AM, Beehive3783 said:

The only time you will really see police is when they are buying meals at the hawker centre. And you will see a whole bloody platoon of them, not just 1 or 2!  

I wonder the one not buying would seize the moment ornot...? 🤔

[Beehive3783]

On 8/29/2024 at 12:31 PM, mersaylee said:

I wonder the one not buying would seize the moment ornot...? 🤔

No la, all of them will go and buy, nobody will be waiting in the cars. Then you will think there is a big case going on, but walk into the hawker centre and voila! there they are!

[mersaylee]

On 8/29/2024 at 1:22 PM, Beehive3783 said:

No la, all of them will go and buy, nobody will be waiting in the cars. Then you will think there is a big case going on, but walk into the hawker centre and voila! there they are!

No one to jaga the state assets? How can...? At least have one mata mata insai a stolen mata chia mah...if not so malu siah 😁

[Volvobrick]

On 8/29/2024 at 3:22 PM, Beehive3783 said:

No la, all of them will go and buy, nobody will be waiting in the cars. Then you will think there is a big case going on, but walk into the hawker centre and voila! there they are!

I think they also need to eat lah. It's just a job/NS anyway.

 

[Beehive3783]

On 8/29/2024 at 1:58 PM, Volvobrick said:

I think they also need to eat lah. It's just a job/NS anyway.

 

Yes, they need to eat. Understood. But need to activate whole platoon and 3/4/5 cars to go together or not?  

[Atonchia]

Why would he want to climb the fence?

Look like it's a long way from the estate main entrance.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/phd-student-was-drunk-when-he-fell-and-died-while-scaling-fence-in-pasir-panjang

[Volvobrick]

On 8/31/2024 at 7:57 PM, Atonchia said:

Why would he want to climb the fence?

Look like it's a long way from the estate main entrance.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/phd-student-was-drunk-when-he-fell-and-died-while-scaling-fence-in-pasir-panjang

Drunk people do stupid things. 

[mersaylee]

On 8/31/2024 at 8:14 PM, Volvobrick said:

Drunk people do stupid things. 

Those stay high floor with balcony who also like to host drink party know to always lock the sliding door to the balcony...especially those in condo facing a pool...😅

[zipping]

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2857068/cobra-slips-into-trainers-pants-during-school-lesson

 

[Jamesc]

https://mothership.sg/2024/09/sporean-woman-heads-to-jb-detained/?utm_source=tele&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=MS

Go JB must show these lowly paid civil servants who is boss!

We go there to spend money OK!

We are very important and they must kow tow to us!

A Singaporean woman was on her way to Johor Bahru for a day trip when she got into an argument with a Malaysian customs officer.

She ended up detained in Johor Bahru for seven days and six nights.

The 36-year-old says that during this time, she was harassed and pressured to sign a Malay language form.

She was eventually released — apparently after her brother called Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

The woman posted about her experience in a TikTok post.

She also shared the details with Mothership.

She arrived at Johor's Bangunan Sultan Iskandar checkpoint north of the Woodlands Checkpoint at 8:40am on Aug. 7.

After her biometric scan failed twice, she went to a counter, where she was met with an "aggressive" male officer.

The officer allegedly informed her that the counter was closed.

He apparently got upset when she asked how a woman had previously gone to the same counter.

He repeated that the counter was closed, and she went to a different counter.

"However, he became verbally abusive and aggressive — shouting at me with hand gestures," she told Mothership.

He also allegedly shouted at her in a mix of Malay and English.

Passport confiscated

In response, she told him to stop, pointing out that she was already at a different counter.

She also threatened to film him if he continued shouting.

He persisted, and she began filming him.

At first, he "smiled, waved, and made a 'peace' sign", she claimed.

He then began to shout again, and demanded her passport.

Believing that he would confiscate it, she refused.

The officer then got her passport from the officer at the second counter.

Afterwards, he walked into an office with the confiscated passport.

she followed.

Told her to delete video

At the customs office, she says she was told that she could leave if she deleted the video, but she refused.

She was then told that she would be detained.

One officer allegedly took a photo of her covertly, and raised his fist at her in a threatening manner when she confronted him over it.

"I felt very objectified, sexualised, harassed, and threatened," she said.

"If I was really locked up, they could enter my cell in the middle of the night."

She eventually agreed to delete the video.

However, the officers told her that they would be confiscating her phone "to send it to forensics".

She was then brought to a detainment office where she was strip-searched by female officers, who made remarks about her appearance, she said.

While some of their comments were in Malay, she said she could make out words like "fake eyelash", "vain", and "fat nose".

Signing of forms

she was also told that she would have to sign forms stating her particulars, possessions, and dates of detainment.

However, they were in Malay.

Unwilling to sign forms that she could not understand, she refused and requested an English version instead.

She added:

"I want to emphasise: the offence I was charged was not stated anywhere (the section number), nor what the offence was about (details of the offence).

They did not explain my offence to me either, verbally, or in any way, since I arrived at JB."

They ended up detaining her regardless, without her signature.

Detained for 6 more days

For the next six days, she was detained in the centre.

She shared a cell with three other women — two from Myanmar, one from Thailand, and one from Indonesia.

She remains in contact with both the Burmese women, she told Mothership.

During her stay at the detention centre, male officers would come to the cell and look at her, calling her "Singapore" instead of by name, she said.

"The first night I did not sleep at all and used the blanket to tie the gate because I half-expected [one officer] and his friends to rape me in the middle of the night."

On Aug. 8, she was told of her offence: failure to comply with the officer-on-duty.

She was then asked to give a statement to the officers, but insisted on making a phone call first.

The officers refused.

Brother called

On Aug. 9 — the third day of her detention — she was told that her brother had called asking about her.

He had become worried after he realised she hadn't texted their mother for three days.

Her brother then contacted MFA, who in turn contacted the embassy in Malaysia, and finally found that she had been detained.

"He wanted to drive up to see me but was turned away because it was after working hours," she said.

The next day, she was allowed to call her brother, who said the officers had explained that she had been "rude to officers and uncooperative because I refused to sign forms".

On Aug. 12, her brother visited her.

He told her to sign the forms so she could be released, and despite initially resisting, she eventually relented.

She was released the next day at 4pm, after being issued a warning letter.

She had by then spent six nights in the detention cell.

She also was returned her phone, with all the incriminating material deleted.

"Very, very, very angry"

Even though the conditions "weren't so bad", she said it was the way she was denied phone calls that made her especially angry.

She added that this was particularly because her mother gets "worried about [her] very often".

"My mother became sick during the seven days I was gone and I was so furious [that] I cannot communicate anything to her," she added.

"They deliberately did not let me call at least one person to let them know where I am. It was extremely cruel and vicious."

She added that despite the harrowing experience, the detainees were treated relatively well with a clean cell and "decent and basic" food.

A few officers were also "truly upright and principled" in their treatment of detainees, she said.

"This is a valuable experience. You learn something, we learn something," one of the "upright" officers allegedly told her.

She concluded:

"It’s one of the most interesting, fascinating, dramatic, and farcical events in my life. I do not trivialise this event at all because it was an utterly humbling lesson learnt and life-changing."

Edited September 4 by Jamesc

[mersaylee]

So many go there for day trip...how cum so lucky to learn the utterly humbling, life changing lesson liddat? 😁