Facebook user Bob Sim shared how he was running after the bus with bags of groceries in his hands, and the bus had stopped for him.

He said that he was “just a few more steps” away from the bus when the bus then “zoomed off”.

Here is what he said

Sadistic bus 64

There I was running after that bus wt both hands loaded with heavy groceries. Frantically lifting my bags beckoning the bus to stop.

It stopped. I ran. Just a few more steps…. Basket! It zoom off!

So I dropped my bags. Snapped wt my hp. I filed an official complaint!

Netizens’ comments

• …it happens sometimes…not because the bus captain was insensitive, he did not see you because he might be looking to his right to see the road was clear before driving out…
• .. there are also times when the bus captain waits with the engine running for minutes, because he was ahead of schedule…
• Don’t blame the Bus Captain …. Blame the person or group of people who create & enforce the Bus schedule. Bus captain just follow their very tight & specific schedule.
• When I was a Bus Captain… Whenever I am severely behind schedule, I have no choice but to drive off even when I see people running towards my bus.
  If I don’t do it, the OCC will annoyingly keep calling me to speed up. This will distract my driving & compromise the public safety.
• I will definitely feel bad for that passengers including the Author but We Bus Captain Have no choice at times.

41-year-old Wang Shu, the director of a wholesale trading firm, was found to have imported undeclared food products without a valid import permit in July 2020, when ICA officers at the Pasir Panjang Scanning Station, Ports Command detected anomalies in the scanned images of a 40-foot container from China.

The case was then referred to the SFA for investigation.

She was supposed to be fined for the food-related offences, when she then threatened to falsely accuse an SFA officer, who was handling her case, of molesting her.

She was sentenced on Monday 12 September to 4 weeks imprisonment for threatening to accuse the man of molesting her, as well as being fined $5,000 for her food-related offences from 2020, which includes illegally importing salted duck eggs and meat products.

What happened?

After the undeclared food products were discovered by the ICA officers, the case was referred to SFA for follow-up investigations.

On 20 October 2020, an SFA officer and two colleagues visited Wang’s office at Pandan Loop to investigate and asked her to provide her statement about the incident.

Wang agreed to provide her statement and brought the officers into a room beside her office for the interview, and a check was then conducted on her phone by the officers, who found incriminating messages.

Wang then became uncooperative towards the officers and wanted to end the interview, two of the officer’s colleagues left the room to avoid agitating her further, while he stayed behind to calm her down.

Wang refused to calm down and the officer then ended the interview, and as he was packing up his belongings, Wang asked him to hand over the statement that she partially recorded, but the officer rejected her request.

Wang then got up from her seat and stood in front of the room’s door, closing and locking it while holding onto the door knob, blocking the officer from leaving.

She then threatened the officer, saying that if he refuses to hand over the statement that she partially recorded, she would shout molest.

The officer then gave the statement to Wang because of the threat, and she then tore the statement up before allowing the officer to leave.

As for Wang’s illegally imported meat products, ICA, SFA and the Singapore Police Force said in a joint statement that Wang had illegally imported about 36kg of food products, including beef jerkies, sausages and salted duck eggs, which were all seized.

Wang had also advertised the illegally imported meat products on her Facebook account to try and sell them.

20-year-old student Ong Kwan Yun, pleaded guilty on 12 September to causing grievous hurt by a negligent act and riding a con-compliant PMD, and is set to return to court in November after a probation suitability assessment report.

He was speeding on his PMD when he crashed into a 46-year-old woman, who fell onto the ground and hit her head, resulting in her skull being fractured.

The woman was warded in the ICU for 2 weeks, and she later suffered complications such as memory loss, and having difficulties in everyday tasks such as speaking and swallowing.

What happened?

Ong was riding his unregistered PMD on 23 March, which weighed 30kg (more than the legal limit of 20kg), along a sheltered walkway at Boon Lay Avenue at about 1pm, which was not allowed on footpaths and roads.

He was speeding at the time and lost control of his PMD, crashing into the woman, who was sent flying off the ground and landing on her back, with the back of her head landing on the ground first.

She ended up losing consciousness for a moment, as passersby rushed to her and called for an ambulance.

Ong stayed at the scene and called out to the victim, who was not responding, and he then left the scene to go to his girlfriend’s home because he didn’t know what to do.

The victim later regained consciousness and was bleeding on her arm, but she was not able to move – she was later found to have fractured her skull and had internal bleeding around her brain.

She was given 132 days of hospitalisation leave, and as a result of the accident and her resultant disabilities, have been seeing a physiotherapist, a speech therapist and an occupational therapist ever since.

Ong was later arrested on 25 March after the police identified him through security footage in the area of the incident.

His PMD was then seized and found to have weighed 29.72kg.

23-year-old Chan Xin Kai pleaded guilty to 5 charges which includes insulting a woman’s modesty, the sale of obscene videos and criminal intimidation; and he was sentenced to 24 weeks imprisonment on 12 September.

He had secretly filmed and taken photos of at least 20 women while having intercourse with them and sold the photos and videos illegally.

He was between 18 to 20-years-old at the time of the offences.

What happened?

Chan befriended multiple women on the Tinder dating app between 2016 and 2017, and had intercourse with at least 20 women that he met via the app and at his school.

He would take videos and photos of the acts without the consent of the women.

He had a no strings attached relationship with an 18-year-old girl that he met on Tinder in 2018 when he was 19, but they broke contact by the end of the year.

She later received a screenshot from a stranger on Instagram asking her if she was the person in the photo, where she was seen performing an explicit act on a man.

She filed a police report and found out that her explicit videos and pictures were being circulated online.

She then confronted Chan, who told her that he wasn’t responsible for it and that he had deleted the photos, and his phone was lost.

Investigations later revealed that Chan tad taken 56 videos and 112 photos of the girl while they were having intercourse, which he sold in November 2018 for money.

He chose that girl because he felt like he wasn’t as “close” to her as his other partners, creating fake profiles on dating and chat apps impersonating her and selling the videos and photos.

He sold two videos of the girl to two strangers for $160.

Second victim

Chan then sold videos and photos of other women performing the explicit acts for $240, including a 20-year-old woman whom he met on Tinder and slept with regularly for 5 months.

He took 36 photos and 20 videos of her without her consent, while she was performing explicit acts on him.

On 15 May 2019, Chan threatened her via text message, saying that he had her obscene videos/photos and demanded she reply him; she had stopped meeting Chan at the time and didn’t want to meet him anymore.

However, Chan wanted to continue meeting her for intercourse, and threatened to spread her obscene videos and photos if she refused.

The girl then met up with him because she was scared he would circulate the content, and he then lied to her that they had been deleted.

Facebook user Ronald H K Chong shared how he was allegedly cheated by a Thai amulet dealer on Facebook and lost $1,228.

He said that the seller told him that his parcel was wrongly sent to the US, and has not been answering his calls after receiving the money.

Here is what he said

Beware of this amulet dealer – Baramee Amulet! He cheated me by saying that the amulet I bought was wrongly sent to USA. He cheated me for S$1,228/- !

I don’t think I can get back my money as he does not answer my calls.

Brothers out there be careful.

This is the CK Udom Nawak Rian encased in gold casing that the Thai guy wanted to sell me. But he said it was wrongly sent to his customer in USA.

Netizens’ comments

• Next time you want buy amulet from Thai people, Pm me, as I hv dealer in Thai that can help you collect the amulet and sent to you, with bit extra charges, but far more safe
• I also often brought from thai dealers last time. But i always request video call to chat and ask for his thai id card and bank account to verify. This is one of my ways to check if opposite party is scammer. Best is to deal with those thai dealer that… 
• Say bye bye to your money

Facebook user Umesh Kishore Tekani shared how he had mailed his SmartPac parcel out on 4 August via Singapore post and it wasn’t delivered, and he was told that it was “returned to sender”.

However, he claims that more than 1 month later (13 September), he still has yet to receive his return mail.

here is what he said

Dear Singapore Post

I mail my smartpac on 4th August and it wasn’t delivered and afters many phonecalls and email exchange, i was informed that it was return to sender! Its already 13th September and till now I have not received the return mail !

Please don’t outsourced the customer service to foreigners because when asking me about the local address details via phonecalls. I realized they are not familiar with our local address which causes more issues.

Please kindly help bring my smartpac home or please let me know where can i collect it back.

我等着你回来 (translated: “I’m waiting for you to come back”)

I attached some of our email exchange. (see bottom of post)

Singpost responds

• (SingPost) HI Umesh, thank you for sharing your concerns. We apologize for the experience you had faced and the non follow up. Please allow us to look into your case, and one of our colleagues will be in touch to follow up with you accordingly. Thank you for your kind understanding.
  • (OP) Singapore Post just return my smartpac, stop the big round chasing. Telephone number was written on it for both receiver and sender, why can’t the staff on the ground call n settle? If it cannot be done why bother having the slot to filled our telephone numbers 
    • (SingPost) HI Umesh, the team will look into this on priority and keep you posted. We acknowledge the delay and we apologize for the experience.

Email correspondence with Singpost