leave my beer can behind. going to court.

[billthegeek]

[=rickylah

In my opinion, the battle is already lost when you handed your IC over. If you remain firm in your stand and display confidence in your innocence, you might have a chance of winning the argument. My dad once argued with a bad cop who was making false accusations and the cop was like subdued and taken aback, because few S'poreans will ever dare to yell back at a police.


This case also reminds us, you never know when Big Brother is watching you....

 

[kaiwenny]

^ who is Big Brother? hmm

 

[indianstallion]

This reminds me of this lit text I read in secondary school called the Winslow boy.

It's about a boy who comes back home expelled from his school for stealing. He tells the dad he didn't, so the dad starts a court case to prove his innocence. He ends up spending all the money his family has to prove his son's innocence, and that includes his daughter's inheritance, causing her marriage to be called off. His health also deteriorates due to the long and drawn out case.

In the end, their lawyer pokes serious holes in the accusation so the school reverses the expulsion, and the son is found innocent. But it came at a high price, and the book leaves us to decide on whether it was worth it.

 

[rickylah]

hey guys, thanks for the concern. i forgot to state that my offence was littering of HUGE ITEM which can lead to infestations that compromise public health worrrrrr. so its non compoundable and i have to attend court. wait i shld be dying already, how to go court.

anyway went to court. was given another date to go back again in feb to plead guilty and accept my punishment which will be CWO. NO FINE. yesssss!

seeing how the court works, i think its really useless to fight for the case myself la. unless i get a lawyer. its like a playground for the rich and hell for the peasant. no lawyer no fight.

i think the only way is to make NEA remove the charge. i failed. but its possible. ytd witnessed a guy show a letter of NEA accepting his appeal to the judge. no chance to ask how he do it ar....

 

[rickylah]

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_314529.html

"Under the scheme, offenders can be made to spend up to 12 hours picking up rubbish. Each session is capped at three hours."

 

[indianstallion]

12 hours is quite a bit, hopefully you don't get that long.
You should take a pic of yourself and post it here after the deed.

 

[guitarsan]

So...have you wrote to the press yet? If no, why not? If your letter gets published, you will put NEA in a spot and they somehow have to reply. And who knows you might open a new can of worms, where other people who were also unjustly penalised by NEA start writing in. NEA will then have some serious answering to do.

Whatever the outcome in court, it's either you pay the penalty and suffer in silence OR you the penalty but at the same time, make NEA answerable! Good luck.

 

[shinobi]

moral of the story: 1 can of beer missing, just F- it lah 8)

 

[Sharky]

Hey man, if the officer claims that the can was empty, you must have drank it, and that would leave your saliva on the tip of the can. Unless your DNA is found on the can, they can't possibly charge you with a crime. But that's just my opinion.

If the cans were full, then it's NOT rubbish and it's a case of lost and found. And that would mean the NEA dude is a big fat liar. And he should be made to pay for damages, and fired for abusing his authority. Once again, just my humble opinion.

 

[shinobi]

find out who the fella is, then go and sabotage him by somehow placing pornographic material or duty unpaid cigarettes on him. then call police. let him tell his story to the judge

 

[Nathaniel]

If one gets CWO... does that mean he has a police record and has to declare to any future employer?... if thats so... thats really up

 

[FluxUs]

say it again, these scumbags need to get shot in the face.

 

[ahkiatt]

Have you tried going to NEA and raising your voice there? My dad got away with a lot of parking tickets(those that he were not guilty of of course) by creating a din at the LTA building. Bring your dad. Insist on talking to the "head" of the building. It works. And CWO is really not cool. It really does leave a record.

 

[guitarsan]

Read this one on today's ST Forum: http://www.straitstimes.com/ST+Forum/Story/STIStory_316146.html

Looks like NEA has gone quite gila already! They really got nothing better to do.....like going after innocent people instead of doing some real enforcement work. Can't help thinking these NEA officers are working on quotas only. Meet quota, got bonus...don't meet quota, no bonus.

 

[Innocence]

an old saying: 官字两个口

 

[rickylah]

i went down to NEA building ytd to see the person in-charge of the littering cases. but was stopped before i can find their office. the security guards, the "customer"(criminal) service counter wouldnt let me in. they passed me a form to write wad its regarding.

the least i can do is to inform them abt the fked up job the nea officers are doing. i wrote in that paper for someone in charge to call me and explain to me wad is littering and why i was charged littering. not even writing it as an appeal letter, its more of a complain letter.

although i dun think writing to NEA can change anytihng. the counter staff told me NEA officers are not even under NEA, they are outsource.