Man Steals Student’s Mobile

…as in, mobile phone. This was a headline in the newspaper. Singapore is famous for being very tough on crime. People here are still talking about Michael Fay, the American teenager who vandalized in Singapore and was caned for his crime, with even the President of the United States appealing for the twerp to be let off the hook. In St. Louis I used to read the police blotter in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to see where people were getting murdered. There were murders almost every day near O’Fallon Park on the Northside. In the U.S. you tell the police that someone stole your phone not because you think the police will find it - or even make an effort - but just because you want to have a police record to fill out an insurance form. But no, in Singapore, this makes the newspaper: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Courts%2Band%2BCrime/Story/STIStory_274446.html