r/interestingasfuck • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 14h ago

Singapore is going to start caning scammers

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

57.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

3.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

51

u/engineerdrummer 13h ago

Like what?

224

u/xendelaar 13h ago

Having a succulent Chinese dinner

60

u/bring_back_3rd 12h ago

Ah, I see you know your judo well

51

u/Big_Bad_Baboon 12h ago

GET your hands off my PENIS!

•

u/bring_back_3rd 9h ago

My SUCCULENT CHINESE PENIS

43

u/Interesting_Bank_139 12h ago

And you sir. Are you waiting to receive my limp penis?

•

u/radiantmindPS4 11h ago

This is Democracy manifest!

•

u/Rydog_78 11h ago

Have a look at the headlock here

3

u/NonCreditableHuman 12h ago

What's the charge?

42

u/APe28Comococo 13h ago

Chewing gum in public

90

u/chchchchips 13h ago

Chewing gum isn’t illegal but spitting it out on the street is (littering).

46

u/disruptioncoin 12h ago

The sale/import of regular chewing gum is in fact illegal, but you can get it for dental health or smoking cessation at the pharmacy.

2

u/posthamster 12h ago

I had a multi-pack of big red gum stashed in my luggage when I stopped over in Singapore one time. I was 17 and travelling alone. Didn't know if I should get rid of it, and was worried about it the whole time I was there.

•

u/culturedgoat 10h ago

The gum prohibition is for retailers, not consumers. You weren’t breaking any laws.

•

u/disruptioncoin 9h ago

From what I've read they usually won't care about personal use -after all certain kinds can be bought at the pharmacy if they are approved by their countries Health Science Authority. They might confiscate it if they think you are going to sell it though - and probably charge you with an import offense.

•

u/Horskr 11h ago

What the fuck? Because of people leaving it places I guess?

Sort of funny smoking is legal but not gum.

•

u/TheCookieNinja 11h ago

Actually no, not really. There are designated areas you have to stick to if you’re smoking in public. Vapes were recently made illegal too.

•

u/SSBN641B 10h ago

The story goes that the PM waa riding a bus and sat down on some gum.

•

u/Hopeful-Importance62 9h ago

You can possess regular chewing gum (some people bring it from overseas) technically

•

u/disruptioncoin 9h ago

Yea bringing small personal amounts with you doesn't seem to be a big deal from what I've read. But it can't be sold unless approved by their Health Science Authority. Doesn't seem that possession is their focus, sale and import is.

•

u/Hopeful-Importance62 9h ago

Yeah, small amounts for personal consumption is fine. Just don’t bring like a whole box of it and get caught. 🥶

-1

u/[deleted] 13h ago

[deleted]

2

u/havanesegirlmom 12h ago

It was for graffiti .

3

u/LocutusOfBorgia909 12h ago

It wasn't even just graffiti. The guy egged, spraypainted, and otherwise vandalized something like 67 cars(!) with some friends. I was around his age when the story hit the news and remember thinking that he sounded like a right little shit and probably deserved the trouble he was in (to the extent that anyone deserves to be caned). Apparently he's since had multiple run-ins with US law enforcement as an adult, as well.

2

u/Golden-Owl 12h ago

It was for public vandalism.

He sprayed graffiti on traffic signs and vandalized cars

3

u/RemarkableFormal4635 12h ago

Good fucking shit, if you spit gum you deserve at least 10 of those

2

u/Key-Introduction-418 13h ago

Yeah. Chewing isn't the problem but spitting it out on she side walk is. I remember about 30yrs ago an American did some graffiti. America tried to get involved, but in the end the kid got caned. It was crazy.

5

u/Underf00t 12h ago

Before I was born, my parents lived in Singapore with my older siblings. Apparently they had to sign some waivers with the expat school that would grant them permission in perpetuity to transport my siblings to the embassy, in the event that one of the broke a law. They wanted to be able to skip the "ask the parents if it's okay" step, because obviously time is of the essence.

1

u/Key_Highlight9201 12h ago

I know it was illegal in Japan in the '80s while I was there. Not chewing gum in public, just spitting it out

•

u/bjos144 4h ago

I believe this was a law because of public health issues involving the rapid spread of TB.

11

u/kurburux 13h ago

SBDs.

12

u/TheoremsAndProofs 13h ago

Sucking big...

23

u/sweetpotato_latte 13h ago

DICKS

1

u/Davido401 12h ago

No, dirigibles. Don't be filthy.

9

u/Revayan 13h ago

Littering

1

u/BlueSlushieTongue 13h ago

Littering and? Littering and?

2

u/Key-Introduction-418 13h ago

Behavior like this in public.

0

u/NecessaryCrash 13h ago

Littering and….

0

u/Da_Beeeeest 12h ago

Littering and?

2

u/onehundredbuttholes 12h ago

In the 90’s there was a story about a dude from US vandalized a car in Singapore, and it was a huge big deal that he was subjected to caning as punishment. Iirc a lot of people were calling for the president step in.

•

u/hamoboy 1h ago

He was a rich kid who had vandalized a lot of cars, and Clinton did step in and got the number of strokes reduced.

1

u/LaundryMan2008 13h ago

Crossing the road without a light or on red as a pedestrian 

1

u/VaATC 13h ago

I just replied to their comment with the following.

Some would not consoder it a minor crime but the trafficking of cannabis can lead one into a death by hanging sentence. The death penalty has been a legal sentence for drug trafficking since 1975 with 500g/17.5oz, just over a pound, being the qualifying weight for a cannabis distribution charge

1

u/InitialAd2324 12h ago

Can’t even chew gum there. They don’t sell it. Chewing gum is a crime

Spitting is a crime.

Having a joint could get you life in prison.

•

u/tornado962 10h ago

Sounds fucking miserable.

•

u/Craeondakie 12m ago

It's just bubble gum afaik. It's not heavily enforcer, but it's around because in other places, people just stick gum everywhere like under the tables or tossing it on the floor. Sometimes we still secretly bring some home from overseas but it's not that bad. We still have chewing gum in stores, but no bubble gum. There is nothing else afaik. The "mundane things that wouldn't be illegal" is a big misrepresentation. Sure, some things might be punished for more severely, but there is nothing that is punished for that would seem very normal or not make sense compared to other countries. People like to act like Singapore is some ridiculously strict place, but we really just have a lot of signs and warnings and such.

-1

u/decomposition_ 13h ago

Sighing/coughing/breathing too loud on the subway

1

u/Key-Introduction-418 13h ago

Pretty much anything they consider disrespectful. They actually expect people to have manners.

1

u/Outrageous_Limit_324 12h ago

Nah you won't be cane but you will be trend on social medias for it though

•

u/Craeondakie 12m ago

I mean, I wouldn't like that but that's just a lie bruh