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    Mom told me the mob beat up the bus driver and conductor, and beat the ambulance crew back because they took too long to get there, so they got some street justice too.

    Typical Indian reaction to this kind of thing.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX2AwqiU21k

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    This is politically incorrect, but I do wonder if these Indians labourers (or any other group in Singapore, migrant or local) will think twice about rioting after having their rear-ends go through a caning session (and likely have their buttocks revealed for all the world to see). The Singaporeans are not known to be tolerant of rioting or western niceties such as respect for rights of the accused after all...

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    Caning is good for over 18 years if you commit a crime. I remember a case in Singapore where an American student was caught spraying graffiti on the walls and they sentenced him to be caned. I think even the President of US asked Singapore to be lenient or something like that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore

    Offences punishable by caning for visiting foreigners who overstay their visa by more than 90 days (a measure designed to deter illegal immigrant workers)
    dont overstay your visa by more than 90 days, get out on the 89th day

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    Quote Originally Posted by wtbhotia:
    Caning is good for over 18 years if you commit a crime. I remember a case in Singapore where an American student was caught spraying graffiti on the walls and they sentenced him to be caned. I think even the President of US asked Singapore to be lenient or something like that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore



    dont overstay your visa by more than 90 days, get out on the 89th day

    It wasn't that the US objected to caning, per se. More that some damn foreigners dared to cane a US citizen - and a 'child' at that. Seemed to be less fuss about Kamari Charlton, but I could have missed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cwbguy:
    Caning of children is totally deplorable, but adults more debatable.

    I think if they introduced the cane in the UK for petty vandalism and crime it really would deter a lot of the petty crims.

    It certainly seems a pretty good deterrent in Singapore with their low crime rates, but it is still a brutal practice.
    I am finding it difficult not to comment on someone who is basically saying 'bring back the birch'

    Your second line makes far more sense. A brutal practice.

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    I think if you had spent time in the UK recently, and read in the papers about the pathetic sentences handed out for quite brutal crimes, often against the elderly, you would not be so appalled by the idea.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cwbguy:
    I think if you had spent time in the UK recently, and read in the papers about the pathetic sentences handed out for quite brutal crimes, often against the elderly, you would not be so appalled by the idea.
    crime rates have been falling for years in the UK without the birch
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    fall a lot faster with it!

    (better grab a PC tree hugger touchy feely hat!)


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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    crime rates have been falling for years in the UK without the birch
    The recorded crime rates...
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