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The downside is, Clubnarc has at times come aross as too being "cliqueish"... something to ponder over...especially when this lil' community becomes more exclusive, rather than inclusive.....
It was reported in The Straits Times on the 17th of March 2006 that a Singapore Police coast guard boat collided with an outrigger off Tanjong Beach, Sentosa late in the evening. The outrigger belonged to the Singpaore Paddle Club.
One broke a couple of ribs several others were injured.
Their members claim that 2 strobe lights with a 5km visibility were installed and that there was no way the patrol boat could have missed them.
Y'know what? I really don't feel any sympathy for these people...
They paddle indiscriminately around Sentosa, cutting into paths of Swimmers along the beach. Their outrigger missed me by a couple of centimeters when I was swimming there. Now you see why there's no sympathy?
Their concern for safety to themselves and others is questionable. First of all, nobody even knew that they were supposed to be in the area. They did not have a valid permit, and this is after all, Singapore.
Stobe lights with 5km visibility? Y'know what? I put strobe lights on my nets when I go fishing. They probably look like fishing nets.
They should have their boats properly lighted up... y'know, those green and red ones that identify them as a sea vessel before they complain that they cannot be missed. Pretending to be fishing nets is hardly the way to go. They should count their blessings that it was not a tanker that went over them.
Let this accident be a wake up call for these clowns. They should pay more attention to safety. Otherwise, stop paddling. 
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All animals including cats have only one primary objective and that is to reproduce. Given the right conditions, ample food and a safe environment, they fornicate like mad and produce many many kittens.
Now you will have many many kittens to feed, and when they grow up, there will be many many more cats screwing around, making more kittens. See where I'm getting at?
Guess what happens when their population starts to interfere with our lives? Y'know, cat shit, cats' mating calls all these can really drive a person crazy. Well, some people choose to take matters into their own hands... (pun intended).
Others will (in true Singpaorean fashion) complain lor... then the official cat collectors will come and roundup the cats and well, lets just say, put them to sleep.
So you see, stray feeders are really the more cruel of the lot. This guy just kill kittens. Stray feeders encourage a kitty population boom and then let the animal control people send these cats to their little kitty holocaust.
Besides being totally cruel, stray feeders are also an inconsiderate bunch of imbeciles. Most would not feed strays in their neighbourhood. I mean, cat shit, mating calls etc... nope, I'm sure they hate to be bothered by that. Stray feeders love cats. Preferably if the cats are in other people's estate... that way, there's no problem. Cat shit, mating calls, well, someone else on the receiving end will call the official cat killers, leaving the real perpertrator (read: stray cat feeders) totally guilt free.
Okay, now that the cat killer is in jail, lets punish the stray cat feeders!
If you love cats that much, adopt a stray. Otherwise, leave it alone!
In case you miss that article, here's the article...
"Neighbourhood patrol helped send cat killer to jail."
By Tanya Fong. The Straits Times, 11 Mar 2006.
Bedok residents started night patrol to nab man killing strays.
For five months, a group of Bedok residents took turns to patrol their neighbourhood over seven hours every evening. Their mission - to catch the man they suspected of torturing and killing the area's stray cats.One of them, Miss Ngiam Mui Wah, 46, finally caught him in the middle of another attack and had enough evidence to make criminal charges stick. That ended David Hooi Yin Weng's reign of terror. The 42-year-old packer was this week jailed three months for animal abuse.
The first attack on the neighbourhood's strays began last June, when a retired school teacher, Madam Jeya, 58, saw a man pick up a kitten from a drain and throttle it.
Recalling her horror, she said: 'I saw him strangle it - he was pressing the cat's neck between his thumb and fingers. Its eyes were almost going to pop out, and it started to bleed from its nose and mouth.'
She rushed home and called the police, but he got away with that one. The episode gave her nightmares for weeks after that. She told her neighbour, fellow stray-cat feeder Miss Ngiam, about it. All at once, the bloodied bodies of kittens in the neighbourhood's void decks and drains started to make sense. A 'cat killer' was definitely on the loose.
They set up a neighbourhood patrol. Ten residents - backed up by young boys who often cycled in the area - came forward. Each team did a two-week shift from 6pm to about 1am.
Team member Sharifah Khamis, 40, also started taking a census of the neighbourhood's strays. If one cat or kitten went missing, patrol members were asked if they saw it.
The killings continued. Last October, a 58-year-old therapist who wanted to be known only as Mr Bakri stumbled upon an attack in progress in the void deck of Block 545. The man was strangling a kitten and kicking its mother away.
Mr Bakri said he shouted at the man, who challenged him in Hokkien to a fight and dared him to call the police. When he took out his mobile phone and began dialling, the man dropped the mangled kitten and fled. Mr Bakri chased after him, but lost him.
By this time, the patrol already knew the man's name and that he lived in Block 544 - but for months, the man continued with the attacks and managed to give the patrol the slip.
Then, Miss Ngiam got her break in November. Perhaps he was complacent that day - but he merely sauntered away still holding the animal, and challenged her to call the police.
She said: 'I was so angry. I knew if I let him walk away, another kitten would surely die.'
She called the police and led them to Hooi's 11th-floor flat. There, they saw all the evidence they needed - the six-week-old kitten, bleeding from the nose and its eyes bulging from their sockets. Hooi's neighbours then piped up to say that they had seen dead cats along the corridor outside his flat.
News of his three-month jail term gave a sense of relief to the residents, but they think the sentence is too light. The law provides for a maximum sentence of 12 months. Most who spoke declined to give their full names for fear that Hooi might seek revenge after serving time.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) attended to 708 complaints of animal abuse last year. Of these, fewer than five were cases that involved extreme cruelty resulting in police action.
SPCA executive officer Deirdre Moss said: 'Many times, people hear about abuse cases and it just stops there. We commend the women who blew the whistle on the abuser in Bedok. Thanks to their vigilance and persistence, he was caught in the act.
'The SPCA depends on the public to follow their example and be willing to stand up and testify.'
tanya@sph.com.sg
Copyright © 2005 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.
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Cabs queueing up at the panel beaters. Damage all at the front of the cabs, so confirm they go and langar people one... Signs that taxi drivers are horrible drivers?
I hope there were no passengers when these accidents occured.
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