With the New Year already here and Chinese New Year almost upon us, everyone’s busy clearing out the boring and old to make way for the shiny and new. Getting rid of all the negative energy that’s built up in the last 12 months and replacing it with something altogether more positive and productive. Or, as the process is nowadays known: Goodbye Candy Crush, hello Candy Crush Dreamworld.
Here in Singapore, though, some people have been taking the process a little too literally, and discarding all kinds of rubbish in a hurry. Two men were recently arrested for hurling a sofa from the fourth floor of a Jurong flat. A 45-year-old man was arrested after throwing a 10kg aircon unit, a dustbin, microwave and a fish tank from his St George’s Lane flat—he was naked at the time and, in fact, threw some clothes down for good measure. And in December, a 15-year-old was arrested near Eunos Crescent for throwing items including bricks, a dumbbell and a water dispenser; while two young brothers were arrested the very same day for throwing a vehicle battery off a high-floor unit at Dover Road.
Quite what’s behind this epidemic of “killer litter” isn’t clear. Perhaps it’s a sign of how hard it is to find reliable recycling services. Maybe they just really, really didn’t like their Christmas presents. Either way, we smell a public safety campaign in the offing. Something to remind people just what you can and cannot toss out of your window at this time of year…
Can Throw
Bad omens
Negative feelings
Deep-seated fears
Weighty worries
Fishy business
Cannot Throw
Bad ovens
Positive batteries
Deep-seated sofas
Free weights
Fish
