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Why you don't commit stupid crimes in Singapore #345621

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:37 am
by karajorma
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_p ... 417167.stm
A Swiss man has been sentenced to five months in jail and three strokes of a cane for spray-painting graffiti on a train in Singapore.

Oliver Fricker, 32, a software consultant, admitted breaking into a depot and vandalising the train.

The judge called it a serious breach of security.

Caning in Singapore involves being struck with a wooden stick on the back of the thigh, which can leave permanent scars.

Amnesty International called the sentence barbaric.


I'm speechless



32 and a software engineer and he doesn't have better things to do with his time than spray painting trains like a teenager from some ghetto? :p

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:06 am
by Top Gun
Granted, but Singapore is still batshit insane about stuff like this. :P

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:12 am
by karajorma
Of course they are. Which is what makes it doubly stupid to go there and do this.

From the rest of the article it seems like he's been trying to go all around the world and put a tag in every country he can. Maybe he'll stop now.

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:06 pm
by Snail
Stupid bugger. Guy deserves it for being such a f#####g idiot.

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:13 pm
by ngtm1r
This is the equivalent of breaking into a military base so you can pee on something in the motor pool.