Too Much Ridiculousness: Man fined $3k for oral sex

Taken from the Straits Times website: Man fined $3k for oral sex. Thanks Eugene Tan for facebook-sharing! Laughed my ass off. Emphasis is mine.

An Operations admin worker was fined $3,000 on Wednesday after being caught engaging in oral sex with another man in a shopping mall toilet cubicle.

...gee are they really no better places...

On March 9, police received a call from a waiter working at a nearby cafe complaining of two middle-aged Chinese men having oral sex in the toilet.

WHAT! What was he thinking?!?

The waiter was in the toilet when he heard 'moaning and groaning' from the first and second cubicles.

So the men were either a) each in one cubicle at once and doing it through the partition, b) doing some quantum thing and in both cubicle 1 and 2 at once. Better send forensics to work out the details. I sure pity the chap dusting for prints.

His colleague recorded the incident on video, which showed the pair engaging in oral sex. The complainant then called the police. But the pair left the toilet before the police came.

RECORDED THE INCIDENT ON VIDEO?! How is sticking your camera into someone else's cubicle—whatever it is you think he might be doing—even legal.

Shortly, another two men - Chin Chee Shyong, 40, and Tan Eng Hong, 47, entered the same public toilet. The complainant again called the police, who arrived on the scene and confronted the two, asking them to come out of the cubicle.

Big serious confrontation there. One fully armed police officer and 2 scared titillated men behind foam-boarded stalls.

Sensing a delay, Sergeant Mohd Faizal Bin Rosli climbed on top of the toilet bowl in the third cubicle and saw Tan, wearing only his shirt, throwing an unrolled condom into the toilet bowl. Sgt Faizal told Tan not to flush and to open the door.

Sergeant Spider saves the day! "Don't flush ah uncle, just open the door.

When Tan opened the door, Sgt Faizal climbed on top of the toilet bowl in the second cubicle and saw Chin putting on his socks. When grilled by police, Tan admitted to performing fellatio on Chin. The two were arrested.

Chin was found guilty of performing an obscene act in a public place and fined $3,000. Tan has yet to be sentenced.

Well... technically, if Tan was doing the performing, Chin was just sitting/standing/floating there. So why was he tried sooner than the other dude. Lousy lawyer? And it was not really a *public* place like an open park or "street, road, or highway", for which an offender "shall be deemed to be a rogue and vagabond within the meaning of this Part and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both." (chapter 184, 27. Singapore statutes online). Whenceforth the $3000 figure?

Just such a hilarious story. And while I don't appreciate a symphony of moans coming from neighboring stalls the next unfortunate time when I have to take a crap in a public washroom, I do think people should have a right to some basic decency in public restrooms. You shouldn't have worry about some wisecrack shoving a camera into your stall after you let out a sigh from reliving your overstretched bladder.