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A Facebook user, Tracy Lim, penned a lengthy post on Facebook calling out a police officer who was seen posing for photos beside her deceased auntie’s body.

She called his actions “utterly unacceptable and disrespectful” to her family and herself, and added that it is the “worst thing” that can happen when they found their family member “lifeless” on the ground.

Here is what she said (SIC)

“Dear Singapore Police Force, is this how police officers are supposed to treat a deceased? By posing like the body beside was nothing but a background or an accessory to a photo?

Is this how you would like others to treat your deceased family member, to treat a very sad situation where someone is lost?

That was my auntie lying on the ground, motionless, and decided to take her life.

Instead of showing basic respect, this police officer decided it was funny and treated the situation as if it was a happy matter, like he just won a trophy, a game or a prize.

Is a dead body a prize to police officers? Is there no integrity on how a police officer should behave, especially when he is on duty, attending to a case involving casualty?

This is utterly unacceptable and disrespectful to my family and myself and anyone who has been through death in the family.

I do not wish this upon anyone, to have a uniformed officer treating their deceased family member like a joke, for his entertainment.

This is the worst thing that can happen when you found your family member on the ground, lifeless, only to see a police officer making fun of it.

How shameful. Shame of you, SPF. Shame on how you train your police officers.

K Shanmugam Sc, Please re look into how SPF train officers.

Please feel free to share this post, I hope no one will have to go through this like we did; rubbing salt onto the wound by someone whose profession is to protect us.“

Apologised for officer’s conduct

The Singapore Police Force released a statement about the incident, saying that they have apologised to the deceased’s next of kin.

Lim has also posted an update about the SPF reaching out to her to express their apologies.

Lim’s update

Update:

Singapore Police Force has called and apologized and we accepted their apology. We appreciate the fast action and assurance they will reinforce on the sensitivity when handling such cases.

We wish to rest the matter and let our family have privacy as we prepare for final arrangement of our aunt.

Thanks you all friends for your condolences and support.

Source: Tracy Lim on Facebook

A Facebook user, Phia Boo, shared how he stayed in a hotel at Jalan Besar for 2 nights and got bitten by bed bugs, while also lamenting how the hotel didn’t provide him with a refund.

Here is what he said

WARNING

Never! I repeat, Never stay in this hotel.

My friend and I were so petrified and traumatized, after our experience staying in this hotel in SINGAPORE.

First night I couldn’t sleep, I kept scratching myself non-stop throughout the night. The next morning, we found two bed bugs – one small and one large (squished with blood). We complaint and they changed our room and told us they already got the pest control to clean the room for us. We stayed the second night and woke up to find another one on the bed.

Although the staff were friendly and helpful, and offered us to wash our clothes. But sadly, they didn’t offer medical or refund us. We went to the laundry immediately after check out to wash it again with high temperature to ensure the bugs are dead including our bags. We don’t want to bring home the bugs. We go through so much hassles and wasted our time and money. I wonder how they get the “SG Clean Certified” from the government. Ridiculous!

Now, we suffered the itches and ugly rashes all over our body. My friend condition is worst. Rashes keep popping out every minute on our skin. This is our first experience after traveling to so many countries and living is so many different hotels or motels.

This hotel is ST Signature in Jalan Besar, Singapore.

Hotel’s response

ST Signature spoke to Mothership and said that they activated their pest control vendor, Autopest Pte Ltd, to the room after the complaint about bed bugs.

They also said that they conduct weekly pest control service as well as maintenance, and they have a set of SOPs when incidents like these happen.

For cases where there are bed bugs, the room will be fumigated and isolated for 6 days before Autopest follows up on their inspection.

ST Signature also added that the rooms that Boo and his friends stayed in were inspected, and Autopest only found adult bed bugs and no eggs.

They described it as an isolated report from the guest, and that no other activity were observed in their premises.

They added that the bed bugs were “very likely” to have been brought it with the guest’s luggage.

They also added that they have provided a full refund of $163.53 to Boo and his friend.

I have been trying to stay in contact with old friends recently and picked up the habit of replying to their Instagram stories. I would ask about what they are doing and stuff.

I come across this friend who posted a IG story of her meal, it was dumplings and a bowl of soup at a restaurant. Seeing the nice quality of the dumplings, I tried guessing where the place is.

For some background information, I live in Singapore where we tend to turn abbreviate many words. One very common example that everyone knows is “HDL” which means “Hai Di Lao”, a hotpot restaurant many people in Singapore love. So it was common to call restaurants in their abbreviations, Macs, HDL, SLF (Another hotpot place).

So with that, I sent her “DTF?”. I meant Din Tai Fung which is a nice dumpling place. I reply to IG stories very quickly and sent it without a second thought.

Few days later I get added into a groupchat, the groupchat contained my old friend’s friends who I barely know. The first message sent was “Do you know why you are here?”.

I replied idk because I forgot about the DTF message. Then came the storm of 4 people absolutely destroying me, calling me a douche bag who thinks he can just hit up old friend no biggy like they are always down to f-. I told them my DTF meant Din Tai Fung but they thought I was trying to lie my way out. I kept trying to convince them, showing them why I sent DTF.

It was going nowhere and I couldn’t find anyway to back myself up because the only message was DTF and nothing else. Eventually they stopped and kicked me out of the groupchat. They are probably off somewhere still talking smack about me while I just lost a good friend of mine all because of a damn abbreviation.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force said in a statement on Faceook yesterday that a fire broke out at 529 Balestier Road, with about 10 people evacuated before their arrival.

No injuries were reported and the cause fo the fire is currently under investigation.

Here is what they said

[Final update: Fire @ No. 529 Balestier Road]

At about 2pm today (28 June), SCDF was alerted to a fire at the abovementioned location.

Upon arrival, thick smoke was seen emitting from a unit on the ground floor.

Firefighters from Central Fire Station (FS) and Bishan FS immediately donned breathing apparatus sets and proceeded into the unit through its front entrance with a water jet.

To speed up the firefighting operation, firefighters broke through a window and removed some items from the unit to create more space for the firefighters to maneuver safely inside the unit.

The contents of the unit comprised items such as fans, lights, bathroom furnishings and other home hardware fittings.

The fire was concentrated in the back of the unit and was extinguished with two water jets within two hours. Damping down operations are ongoing.

About 10 people had evacuated from the affected premises prior to SCDF’s arrival.

There were no reported injuries.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.