Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:30 AM
If you get thirsty on board the mrt and need a drink, would you take a sip of plain water from your water bottle?
If you feel dizzy from the jerky ride on board, would you take a sweet to relief it?
Think again for you may be fined.
Sometimes, I would say that 'the law is a ass'. Just like what Mr Bumble from Oliver Twist would say. I mean, the main purpose of the fine is to deter people from littering the public transports. Not to get nitty gritty and pin point events like sucking on a sweet. It's like finding a needle in the haystack. Or what the Chinese likes to say: finding bones in an egg - nothing better to do.
Sometimes when a law is passed, the enforcers should exercise some common sense/logic so as to ensure that the law is fair. Should it fall into the wrong hands, words can be played around and a general term like food and drinks is like the umbrella word for every single thing that you consume into your body. If I accidentally ate dust on board, can the officer fine me for I ate dust? Indirectly, I am eating something, hence consuming something, hence I should be fined. Isn't it so?
I don't know but sometimes, we really should use our brains and practice what normal people would call sensibility. Not merely following the law. Kuo Pao Kun wrote a line in No Parking on Odd Days and it goes something like this: Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine... Fine... Fine lah!
Is that what you want?
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious