Sunday, March 11, 2007
Exciting life
Had another exciting experience.
We were driving to Tiong Bahru for dinner at night, and were on Tiong Bahru Road (perpendicular to Seng Poh Road), when we saw a guy sitting on a red chair in the middle of the road!!! Fortunately we were travelling on the extreme left lane on a 3-lane road. The insane guy was seated in the middle lane... and facing the traffic! He was dressed in blue, so it was difficult to see him. And he obviously wanted to die in an exciting manner! How many of us love the intoxication of facing oncoming traffic?
But luckily that isn't a road many speed on. Vehicles did manage to spot him in time and swerve into another lane to avoid being the unlucky scapegoat to cause the crazy fella's death and get blamed for it! (Actually, if *touchwood* something like this happens, will the driver be charged? Assuming that he is within the speed limit... But then again, he'll be tortured by the trauma of the accident and his conscience....) What an idiot right? Wanna die then just go swallow sleeping pills or something. If he chose to jump down some block or slash his wrist, people will still have to clear up the mess. If he gased himself to death, waste electricity and gas (non-renewable resource). Incosiderate fella.
Anyway, I called the police and informed them. Quite exciting... 1st time I've called 999 to report something. (The last time was when I was young. I called and hung up. Almost immediately, I received a call back and got a stern warning from the police officer.) Anyway, the policeman asked me to tell him my number, and I almost uttered the wrong number! (How often do you call yourself?!) Then he couldn't understand Seng Poh Rd!
I did return to the 'scene' to kaypoh. Instead of seeing the police there and kicking up a fuss, or people surrounding to gossip, I saw a car stopped in front of a scooter, with a silver umbrella spread open on the road behind the scooter. And some passers-by looking on. Nobody was hurt, but the scooter's license plate was crooked. THe crazy fella was standing nearby at a tree, with his red chair. I assume that the car had swerved to avoid hitting the crazy fella, and inevitably hit the scooter.
Since nothing significant happened, I resumed dinner. But when I checked my phone and returned the call to an unknown number... it turned out to be the police! They had called to verify the location again... at Outram! My goodness! How shocking can this get? Imagine you were running for your life, and you call the police to save you. But they call you and verify the place... and they are at a totally WRONG location! Oh my! Unimaginable!
What to do?
Exciting life... 2 police encounters in less than a week! Are you envious? Heh.
We were driving to Tiong Bahru for dinner at night, and were on Tiong Bahru Road (perpendicular to Seng Poh Road), when we saw a guy sitting on a red chair in the middle of the road!!! Fortunately we were travelling on the extreme left lane on a 3-lane road. The insane guy was seated in the middle lane... and facing the traffic! He was dressed in blue, so it was difficult to see him. And he obviously wanted to die in an exciting manner! How many of us love the intoxication of facing oncoming traffic?
But luckily that isn't a road many speed on. Vehicles did manage to spot him in time and swerve into another lane to avoid being the unlucky scapegoat to cause the crazy fella's death and get blamed for it! (Actually, if *touchwood* something like this happens, will the driver be charged? Assuming that he is within the speed limit... But then again, he'll be tortured by the trauma of the accident and his conscience....) What an idiot right? Wanna die then just go swallow sleeping pills or something. If he chose to jump down some block or slash his wrist, people will still have to clear up the mess. If he gased himself to death, waste electricity and gas (non-renewable resource). Incosiderate fella.
Anyway, I called the police and informed them. Quite exciting... 1st time I've called 999 to report something. (The last time was when I was young. I called and hung up. Almost immediately, I received a call back and got a stern warning from the police officer.) Anyway, the policeman asked me to tell him my number, and I almost uttered the wrong number! (How often do you call yourself?!) Then he couldn't understand Seng Poh Rd!
I did return to the 'scene' to kaypoh. Instead of seeing the police there and kicking up a fuss, or people surrounding to gossip, I saw a car stopped in front of a scooter, with a silver umbrella spread open on the road behind the scooter. And some passers-by looking on. Nobody was hurt, but the scooter's license plate was crooked. THe crazy fella was standing nearby at a tree, with his red chair. I assume that the car had swerved to avoid hitting the crazy fella, and inevitably hit the scooter.
Since nothing significant happened, I resumed dinner. But when I checked my phone and returned the call to an unknown number... it turned out to be the police! They had called to verify the location again... at Outram! My goodness! How shocking can this get? Imagine you were running for your life, and you call the police to save you. But they call you and verify the place... and they are at a totally WRONG location! Oh my! Unimaginable!
What to do?
Exciting life... 2 police encounters in less than a week! Are you envious? Heh.
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 12:28 AM 
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Should have taken photos and sent to Stomp. Haha. Or at least called Emay and I to come see, since we live nearby. ;)
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