passenger beats up bus driver

• SBS3688Y

  15 May 07, 22:56

  Originally posted by rookies:

  another case
  
  A 17-year-old student of one of Singapore's top JC allegedly punched a SBS bus driver in the face during a quarrel on Wednesday

  why? reason is very simple:
  
  - teens like him will always expect the courts to show them leniency as already happened in countless of criminal cases and at most got slapped with probation orders only.
  
  - furthermore, courts will even show greater leniency to kids and teens who are "bright" and score well in their studies!
  
  - these teens probably did it so that they won't miss such "great concessions" given by the judges, or else they will be facing the full weight of the law if they exceed the age limit. in other words, just play the fool the law now since the most got slapped with probation only la!!!
• cyrusv2

  15 May 07, 23:04

  Originally posted by rookies:

  newspaper say that a passenger miss his stop, so he ask the bus driver to stop the bus immediately and let him alight. the bus driver refuse, so the guy beat the bus driver lor.... the incident happened on a 88 bus at pasir ris drive 12 on feb 1 this year....
  
  for beating the bus driver, the guy was jailed a day and fined $1000

  if the garhmen dun want to punish these twats heavily more copy cat cases wud arise
• SBS3688Y

  16 May 07, 23:26

  Originally posted by cyrusv2:

  if the garhmen dun want to punish these twats heavily more copy cat cases wud arise

  aiyah! one side of the coin says probation is better for these teens, on the other side of the coin is to reduce detention expenses la! look at tdy's newspapers - teen robbers bet 15-16 yrs old got only 24mths probation. maybe rape, murder, drug trafficking also end up with probation too! now the govt is considering putting adults on probation too!
  
  and sometimes the stupid judges just anyhow increase (or even double triple) the jail term of some offenders, put them in jail for lengthy periods - which i think is stupid & useless la! a short jail term is already enough to "torture" a prisoner - just imagine got locked up in a tiny cell for 23hrs a day (1hr excercise) - wah piang - i bet every min inside is like a day outside mann!! what i'm trying to say is sentencing i find is rather unbalanced. some too lenient and some too tough.
  
  my site supervisor friend was caught taking some scrap metals from the job site to sell by his company and was sentenced to 1 wk jail; whereas a person caught punching a passerby for nothing cannot be arrested (coz its non-seizable offence) and victim need to press a civil suit instead and police lanlan cant do anything. i can't help but feeling which offence is more serious instead???