A person is guilty of a public nuisance, who does any act, or is guilty of an illegal omission, which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public, or to the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity, or which must necessarily cause injury, obstruction, danger or annoyance to persons who may have occasion to use any public right.
Specifically, the following activities are deemed annoying or cause annoyance:
A. shouting loudly
B. chanting slogans
C. waving flags
D. holding placards
E. blowing whistles loudly
F. beating drums
Naturally, the thousands at the yearly national day parade will just have to learn to pipe it down. No more inflated noise makers, or whirling clappers. Whistles and flags will have to be stowed securely in the goodie bags till you reach home, and the neighbours better not catch you blowing or waving said offensive articles within hearing or sighting range. Do it with curtains drawn and windows tightly shut. Or they might file a police report faster than you can say, "Well, I'd be a monkey's uncle!" The Kallang roar will be a no no. Shouting encouragement for J-Lo to wiggle her bodacious bum, definitely a chargeable offence. And please, please stow away that greeting sign when welcoming home another gold, silver or bronze medal winner at Changi airport.
But it's okay to tap a stick, an umbrella or a net on the ground, to tell the monkeys to go away. Just remember not to shout, chant, whistle, beat your own drums or wave a white flag of surrender. Don't waste time with the placards, the monkeys can't read. If they could, the laws would not be so inanely interpreted.
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Nuisance!? But HLP is gazetted for this purpose - to shout slogan, beat drums, wave flags, hold placards and blow whistles - without the need for any permit. The law says it. If you are the public who is annoyed, then you are in the wrong place!
ReplyDeletethe law is applied differently to different people, some not at all. For those whom the law applies, in increasing order of hantamness.....
Deleteo sycophants & civil serpents (with great reluctance and procrastination, an oh-so-gentle slap on their wrists)
o angmos (now you know why their bicycles end up on your car with impunity or taxi drivers kanna whack upside down still asking for justice)
o other foreigners
o permanent residents and new citizens (NS is voluntary, weekday or weekend up to them, choice of vocation)
o old-bird citizens & well-behaved opposition (better behave or 99% of the weight of law will be on you)
o rest of the opposition, social media activists (confirm 100% of the weight of the law is on you even if you misbehave a wee little bit)
My mother used to say, when I was little, "eat your food...or the police will come and catch you". It has some truth. The police can catch you for anything - wasting of food??
ReplyDeleteGood to have such comprehensive Laws.
ReplyDeleteNational Day Parade, Chingay Parade, Getai, Thaipusam, Chinese Taoist Rite and Funeral, Marriage Celebration are all noisy and disturbing to non-participants .
In fact, aircrafts and vehicles are damn noisy and polluting. If there are Laws to restrict them from operations between 10pm to 6am, it will be nice. Better if there lights off at 10pm to 7am.
Let us have quietness and peace, Sin is far too polluted by noise, light and human activities.
Hope i have not being nonsensical in wishing to have a tranquil environment.
patriot
What about the RC that is blasting loud noises until 11 pm? Any investigation?
DeleteIt is a joke that they are now banning some targeted protesters at the HL speaker's corner but stop short of charging them with any offence except issue a warning.
ReplyDeleteSo with hindsight now we can now suspect why YMCA is organising the event there.
Did anyone mentioned what the hell was YMCA doing organising an event at Speaker's corner ? Maybe someone should have asked the Minister honestly what was his motive to be present at Speakers' Corner specially designated for all kinds of protests ?
They are up to their monkey business again.
DeleteThe Minister should be investigated for instigating the following activities of the protestors:
ReplyDeleteA. shouting loudly
B. chanting slogans
C. waving flags
D. holding placards
E. blowing whistles loudly
F. beating drums
The minister should be charged for annoying the public by chanting his name over and over again at the GE 2011 election rally:
DeleteTeo Ser Luck!
Teo Ser Luck!
Teo Ser Luck!
Teo Ser Luck!
Teo Ser Luck!
Do the Police, the Courts, the Civil Service, the Statutory Boards, all Organs of State, exist for the People or for the Party?
ReplyDelete“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” - George Orwell, 1984
Teo Ser Luck is my hero Minister.
ReplyDeleteIf the Special Needs children were being heckled by Roy & HHH, he would have gone to their rescue.
Teo Ser Luck would have scolded Roy & HHH and told them to stop their heckling.
My hero Minister would never abandon the special needs children to be heckled by Roy & HHH.
The little girl who organised the HLP event and boldly wore a T shirt that proclaimed " Want to sue Me" got her prayers answered.
ReplyDeleteShe asked to be sued and now she got charged.
Did she over reached herself when she heckled the Minister? She was heard shouting: "Teo Ser Luck! Return our CPF "
The performing disables were never heckled. Their performance might have been disrupted. The all and mighty Minister was heckled.
For that the little girl and her followers have to pay a price!
People should have shouted Teo Ser F*ck! PAP is again on another persecution drive because it is so petty. Can it be so sure that the 66% will not slide down further? It couldn't even score an A with the people with the A listed calibre of scholars.
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