A netizen posted a photo of a rat on some vegetables after buying them home from IMM Hypermarket.

“Bought veg from Giant Singapore and found this rat inside the pack of veggie. And the Dead rat was in the fridge for 3 days. “

Here is Giant’s response:

Thank you for your time taken to speak with me earlier. We hope our email finds you well.
Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience arising from your purchase at Giant Hypermarket IMM. We appreciate the time you have taken to contact us as well as the opportunity to address your concerns.

In response to your notification, immediate steps were taken to inform the Store Manager and the supplier of this matter. We have also inspected the section of the same item and they were found to be within good selling condition. During this period, we have not received any similar feedback from customers so we gather that yours might be an isolated case.

Nevertheless, we would like to assure you that we take a serious view on this incident and have taken every effort to ensure that our products are safe, fresh, and of the highest quality. In the interim, we will be conducting more frequent inspections on the quality of our products in an effort to uphold our freshness guarantee.

At this juncture, we would like to offer you a refund on all your fresh and frozen items that you have purchased on 15 May 2022 as a gesture of goodwill. Do let us know when you can return to the store so that we can make necessary arrangement.

The Singapore Police Force is looking into the incident that went viral, where a child allegedly played with a fire extinguisher and sprayed it into the eyes of other children.

The incident happened at a Burger King outlet at East Coast Park on 22 May, with the ensuing video(s) and witnesses’ accounts going viral online.

A spokesperson for Burger King also said that they are aware and launching their own internal investigation into the incident as well.

This comes in the wake of the parent of one of the affected kids who had their eyes sprayed by the fire extinguisher.

Here is what they said

“Burger King Singapore is aware of the incident that occurred on Sunday, May 22 at Burger King Coastal Play Grove.

“We have launched an internal investigation to better understand the incident and we have reached out to Ms Lim directly.”

Recap

A man was caught smashing the windshields of four vehicles in Geylang to steal the cashcards inside before fleeing the scene.

He was caught on CCTV and was seen cutting his hand in the process, which was bleeding.

The incident happened on 21 May at about 2.20am along Geylang Road, according to Shin Min Daily News.

A man who was working nearby, Qiu, said that one of the vehicles that was smashed belonged to an owner of a shop nearby.

The owner found out that the cashcards were missing and called the police, and the CCTV footage showed the bald-headed perpetrator smashing the windshields and reaching into the vehicles to steal the cashcards.

He then fled the scene and threw away the wooden stick that he used to smash the vehicles, onto a grass patch nearby.

The police confirmed that they were alerted to the incident on 21 May at about 8.18am, and at the time of writing, police investigations are still ongoing.

Images source: via SMDN

A 78-year-old former diplomat of Malaysia was arrested, along with his 53-year-old son, with the Royal Malaysian Police seizing 102 cannabis plants in his property.

The “ganja trees” were worth about RM61,200, with another 1.02kg of cannabis leaves, as well as a bottle of cannabis extract were also seized by the police.

The property in Pahang, Malaysia was raided by the RMP’s Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department at about 6pm on 21 May.

They found several rows that were believed to have been used to plant ganja, with the authorities believing that the elderly man was growing ganja on a large scale after discovering plastic nursery containers.

The police said that they found 60 cannabis trees that were planted along the boundaries behind the property and garage, with eight more tree in a tent.

The 78-year-old man tested negative for drugs, but his 53-year-old son tested positive.

The case is said to be one of the biggest seizures of ganja plants in Malaysia’s narcotics history.