Read this:
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost1120.aspx
An angry Marcus Tan sent in this email to STOMP:
To All Happy Shoppers :-
Beware of Traps With Outdoor Sales Items OUTSIDE Department Stores
eg
OG
Shoppers enjoying their year-end shopping should be VERY CAREFUL
not
to be trapped!!
My nephew was shopping at OG Albert Court on the 30th Dec 2006.
He
picked up a packet of singlets that he wanted.
He proceeded to the outdoor areas, HOLDING THE PACKET OF SINGLET
WITH HIS RIGHT HAND EXPOSED, to buy a pillow displayed outside. As
he passed out of the store, the Alarm sounded
.the guard came and
brought him to the office. They refused to listen to any reasoning,
Especially the FACT that the packet wasn't hidden in any bags BUT
EXPOSED VISIBILY ON HIS RIGHT HAND. . Who would want to display
something that they have stolen so visibily????.
..IT was a GENUINE
MISTAKE!!!! But nobody cared. The police were called in and he was
taken away HANDCUFFED IN PUBLIC !!!!
Please advise your Esteemed Readers not to be trapped by this
situation.
Marcus Tan
UPDATE:
Mr. Tan tells us that his nephew is a very timid 30-year-old male
who is well educated with a stable job.
The nephew was shopping alone around noon on the 30th of December
for a pillow for his newly rented room at the area shown
below.
Mr. Tan states that OG's security personnel and the police did not
take his nephew's explanations into consideration at all.
"The police only trusted the secutry personnel and refused to even
hear him out," said the outraged Mr. Tan,"they said that since he
has a clean record, he should just admit and pay a fine and move
on."
The family has engaged a lawyer to mitigate for him, as he was
innocently made to admit in the statement by "screaming officers
who threatened him".
"It's a trap!" declares Mr. Tan in his second email to STOMP,
"Traps like this exist in almost all the shopping centers all over
Singapore."
