sqflyer

If it's YOUR wedding car, don't forget to invite eh? Convoy time... woo hoo

Manwe

Vandalism of car is not criminal offence. It is civil. Confirm. Cos last time caught the person red handed and informed police. Police ask me go to subord court to file civil against the person. Dun even bother to help.

By the way, police are damn useless. I got a hit and run case since last august. Got the person's license no. and got other witnesses. The stupid police haven't even start the investigation. Think must write to the forum.

By the way, anyone have good SE to recommend from MM? Got friend wanna buy car. My SE sucks.

Naughty Boy

Hmmm... funny. Apologies in advance for the length ( ) of what follows (interesting though).

VANDALISM ACT
(CHAPTER 341)

An Act to provide for exemplary punishment for acts of vandalism and to make special provisions in regard to certain offences relating to public property.
[16th September 1966]


Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Vandalism Act.

Interpretation.
2. In this Act —

"act of vandalism" means —

(a) without the written authority of an authorised officer or representative of the Government or of the government of any Commonwealth or foreign country or of any statutory body or authority or of any armed force lawfully present in Singapore in the case of public property, or without the written consent of the owner or occupier in the case of private property —

(i) writing, drawing, painting, marking or inscribing on any public property or private property any word, slogan, caricature, drawing, mark, symbol or other thing;

(ii) affixing, posting up or displaying on any public property or private property any poster, placard, advertisement, bill, notice, paper or other document; or

(iii) hanging, suspending, hoisting, affixing or displaying on or from any public property or private property any flag, bunting, standard, banner or the like with any word, slogan, caricature, drawing, mark, symbol or other thing; or

(b) stealing, destroying or damaging any public property;

"private property" means movable or immovable property other than public property;

"public property" means movable or immovable property belonging to the Government or to the government of any Commonwealth or foreign country or to any statutory body or authority or to any armed force lawfully present in Singapore.

Penalty for acts of vandalism.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law, any person who commits any act of vandalism or attempts to do any such act or causes any such act to be done shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, and shall also, subject to section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Code, be punished with caning with not less than 3 strokes and not more than 8 strokes:

Provided that the punishment of caning shall not be imposed on a first conviction under this Act in the case of any act falling within —

(a) paragraph (a) (i) of the definition of “act of vandalism” in section 2, if the writing, drawing, mark or inscription is done with pencil, crayon, chalk or other delible substance or thing and not with paint, tar or other indelible substance or thing; or

(b) paragraph (a) (ii) or (a) (iii) of that definition.
Cap. 68.

Written authority or written consent to be produced on demand to certain persons.
4. —(1) The written authority or the written consent, as the case may be, required under paragraph (a) of the definition of “act of vandalism” in section 2 shall be produced on demand to any member of the Singapore Police Force or of the Special Constabulary or of the Auxiliary Police Force or to any member of the naval, military or air force police attached to the Singapore Armed Forces or to any armed force lawfully present in Singapore.

(2) Any person who fails, refuses or neglects to produce such written authority or written consent on demand as provided in subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500.

Power to seize article or thing in respect of which offence committed.
5. Any person mentioned in section 4 (1) may seize any poster, placard, bunting, paper or document or any other article or thing whatsoever in respect of which he reasonably believes an offence to have been committed under this Act or which he reasonably believes to be or to contain evidence relating to such an offence.

Offences to be seizable and non-bailable.
6. Every offence under the provisions of this Act shall be seizable and non-bailable for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Cap. 68.

Presumption.
7. For the purposes of any prosecution under section 411 of the Penal Code, where the stolen property is public property, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the person who received or retained that property knew or had reason to believe that the property was stolen public property and also that such person received or retained it dishonestly.

Cap. 224.

Cancellation of secondhand dealer’s licence upon conviction.
8. Where any licensed dealer within the meaning of the Secondhand Dealers Act or any dealer in secondhand goods to whom a certificate of exemption has been granted under that Act is convicted under section 411 of the Penal Code and the stolen property concerned is public property, the court shall, in addition to any other penalty that it may impose, cancel any licence or certificate of exemption granted under that Act to such licensed dealer or such dealer in secondhand goods, as the case may be.

Cap. 288.
Cap. 224.

And to think - some folks thot me couldn't be serious!

Naughty Boy

Dear Kenny & Flyer (in order of appearance),

Many thanx for the well wishes! Actually, me being me, me have not proposed yet.

Anyone have suggestions? And what if the good lady says NO? (Apart from me going out P-A-R-T-Y!!!)

Emperor

Make very sure she will say yes then ask. So at least you know you will succeed or just feel very very bad when the impossible happens.

Bribe her with a five carat diamond ring (make sure its real, flawless and branded); if she still say no. I will marry you instead.

Personally, i made very sure i wanted to marry her and she will 90% say yes before i propose. And it was a surprise; i proposed suddenly without her suspecting even alittle on our Phuket holiday.

sqflyer

NB, thanks for the info. Maybe now we have some bullets to fight with when we bring any such cases to the police. BTW, according to Chap 341 Part 2 a ii, it seems like those people who put ads on the your windshield are also committing an act of vandalism. True? Wonder if it also applies to parking fines... heh heh.

As for the proposal bit, I'd say go with your gut feeling. Make sure YOU are ready to get married yourself first tho. Sometimes it pays to do some "psycho-theraphy" to your partner way in advance, like maybe reminding her that we are all getting older or talk about kids and when is the best age for women to have babies, etc. Ok, I better not go any further else I think the womenfolk will be flaming me soon. Or like Emperor said, 5-ct diamond ring sure work one.

Rumboo

hmm, must go tell my fren he's a really cannot-make-it matah!! Never study penal code hard enuff... must ask him if he use ABBA to pass matah test...

Mebbe that's y he's joined sq..

Naughty Boy

Don't be too hard on the guy - it's always good to have mata friend!

Manwe

Think most matahs cannot make it.

Eg. You make a police report.

You: My XXX is stolen.
Matah: You have any suspect?
You: No.
Matah: Then you cannot say stolen. Cos stolen means it is a criminal offence and we must investigate. Since no suspect it is not a crime. You must report your XXX is lost.
You:???
Matah: That is the standard procedure. If it is found we would contact you.
You:&%^#%*!!!

No wonder singapore crime rate so low. As long as they think cannot catch culprit they dun even wanna enter as a case report.

ngkenny

sounds funny.....just want to start my wednesday morning laughing.

change the XXX to virginity and read the post above once again.