Bizarre laws in singapore

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So, you think WE have some pretty strange laws in our country ? You ain't seen anything yet.

In Singapore, the following laws are truly bizarre:

Importing chewing gum, will get you a $10,000 fine and 2 years in jail. (the actual chewing of gum is not illegal )

Cigarette smoking anywhere, except with-in your own home or special smoking rooms, is illegal. $1,500 fine and 3 months in jail.

Having any kind of sex, except for the pro-creational type, between man and woman, is illegal. The fine and jail time for homosexual sex is especially harsh.

Jay-walking will result in a 3 month jail term.

In your own home and walking around naked ? Fine and jail time.

Tossing anything on the street or sidewalk ? $1,500 fine AND 3 months street clean-up.

Singing or playing a musical instrument in public is strictly forbidden. Jail and/or fine

A few packs of cigarettes in your luggage ? $2,000 fine and jail time.

If you are found in possession of ANY narcotic, even one marijuana stick, you are automatically deemed to be a dealer and the sentence is DEATH. Being in the presence of someone using a drug makes you a dealer also --- DEATH.

I don't think I'll be visiting Singapore any time soon. 6 of the above, I regularly do.
 

At one time men with long hair and beards were shaved and made to have a haircut before being allowed into Singapore.
I'm not sure whether this is still the case.
 
I would imagine a goodly portion of those laws are no longer enforced
Still, yes, rather severe

And if they are in fact enforced, and one just can’t come to grips with it all; there’s that little isle a bit north of which is some sorta haven from all that madness

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Remember some years ago when an American teenager was caned in Singapore for vandalism? I looked it up and they still have caning there.

I'd be terrified to visit, but I do know people who have spent time there for business and vacation and really like it there. Very clean, I understand.
 
Traveler said:
So, you think WE have some pretty strange laws in our country ? You ain't seen anything yet.

In Singapore, the following laws are truly bizarre:

Importing chewing gum, will get you a $10,000 fine and 2 years in jail. (the actual chewing of gum is not illegal )

Cigarette smoking anywhere, except with-in your own home or special smoking rooms, is illegal. $1,500 fine and 3 months in jail.

Having any kind of sex, except for the pro-creational type, between man and woman, is illegal. The fine and jail time for homosexual sex is especially harsh.

Jay-walking will result in a 3 month jail term.

In your own home and walking around naked ? Fine and jail time.

Tossing anything on the street or sidewalk ? $1,500 fine AND 3 months street clean-up.

Singing or playing a musical instrument in public is strictly forbidden. Jail and/or fine

A few packs of cigarettes in your luggage ? $2,000 fine and jail time.

If you are found in possession of ANY narcotic, even one marijuana stick, you are automatically deemed to be a dealer and the sentence is DEATH. Being in the presence of someone using a drug makes you a dealer also --- DEATH.

I don't think I'll be visiting Singapore any time soon. 6 of the above, I regularly do.
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Have you ever been to Singapore? I have and it's as clean as a whistle. On the day (late night) that I arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong, The cab driver told me that the prison is just beyond the airport. She told me that they had executed two Australians earlier in the day for narcotics dealing. Supposedly, they show them on TV via delay broadcasting. True or not, I don't know. That was quite a few years ago. I think the prison and airport are in the area around Changi. I also believe that capital punishment at that time was execution by hanging.
 
If you can't walk around naked in your own home, how are you supposed to take a shower, or change your clothes?

Also, that law about singing in public being illegal? C'mon, now!

If you google Singapore laws, you get a bunch of different lists of bizarre laws such as this. I suspect most of them are phony.
 
During the time of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, Singapore was a benign dictatorship. To survive as a city state in the modern world it was necessary to exercise very strict control over the population. Drugs were not tolerated at all and neither was civil disobedience. The sexual revolution going on in western countries was seen as decadence that was counter productive to Singapore's survival.

Hubby and I visited there in 1985 and were very impressed with the thriving society that had been built from the island that had been devastated by the Japanese occupation. We returned a couple of years ago and were amazed at the development that has occurred since. There are no slums, public housing is very attractive, the streets no longer smell from the drains and transport is excellent. The air is unpolluted and business is booming.

There is a lot to be said for a benign dictatorship. I just don't fancy living in one.
 
Singapore certainly has financial freedom. I could live with their social restraints. I love the idea of executing people caught with illegal drugs. However, they need to modify their gun laws before I could live there. People can own and carry anything if the police allow it, but they rarely do. Keeping my guns at a range would be less than satisfactory.

In my experience, Yemen had or has the best gun laws. We went to a sukh (market area) straight from the airport where we bought handguns and Kalashnikovs as easily as buying a loaf of bread. We arranged to sell them back to the merchant just before we left.

Yemen is a beautiful country that produces the best coffee in the world.

VINYL15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation#Singapore
 
Warrigal,

"..We returned a couple of years ago and were amazed at the development that has occurred since. There are no slums, public housing is very attractive, the streets no longer smell from the drains and transport is excellent. The air is unpolluted and business is booming..."
LOL. I'd love to see if the citizens live relaxed in their homes or outside. If they tread very carefully outside so as not to accidently break any of those rules.
 
Big Horn said:
Singapore certainly has financial freedom. I could live with their social restraints. I love the idea of executing people caught with illegal drugs. However, they need to modify their gun laws before I could live there. People can own and carry anything if the police allow it, but they rarely do. Keeping my guns at a range would be less than satisfactory.

In my experience, Yemen had or has the best gun laws. We went to a sukh (market area) straight from the airport where we bought handguns and Kalashnikovs as easily as buying a loaf of bread. We arranged to sell them back to the merchant just before we left.

Yemen is a beautiful country that produces the best coffee in the world.

VINYL15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation#Singapore
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Why on earth would you want a firearm in Singapore? It is a well ordered peaceful society where the police do not shoot people for traffic violations. Crime rates are very low and the only "game" is found in the zoo.

As for Yemen, what were you up to that you needed to go about armed like a Columbian drug lord's bodyguard?
 
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Warrigal said:
Why on earth would you want a firearm in Singapore? It is a well ordered peaceful society where the police do not shoot people for traffic violations. Crime rates are very low and the only "game" is found in the zoo.

As for Yemen, what were you up to that you needed to go about armed like a Columbian drug lord's bodyguard?
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I love guns.:):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
 
Big Horn said:
That's not the only thing I don't understand.

"The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." Malcolm Turnbull
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Oh Gawd! Did he really say that?
He's one of our more intelligent male prime ministers.
I will have to find the context but I suspect he is trying to justify our maltreatment of asylum seekers.

OK. I've checked it out and it is about ending end to end encryption but I don't think he has actually changed Australian law in that regard. Has the US?
 

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