Friday, July 20, 2012

Is Singapore bursting at the seams?

In yet another worrying sign that Singapore is close to bursting at the seams, an elderly retiree was left with a fractured eye socket after a parking scuffle in a private estate turned ugly.

Goh Poh Ket, 65, claimed he was punched and assaulted by a man and his two sons after he parked his car outside their home along Jalan Chulek inside the Serangoon Gardens estate, reported The Straits Times.

Hit by a remote control, a plastic bottle and a sock filled with a hard substance, no less.

All four men in the ugly brawl have been arrested by police.

Frustration, anger, rage, uncivil -- increasingly, these are the ugly emotions that are bubbling forth, online and offline, as Singapore copes with its burgeoning 5.1 million population. Full story...

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