Snake Appeared At Clementi, Maid DGAF & Hit It With Broom: 6 Topics S’poreans Talked About Today (9 May)

What do you do if you see a possibly poisonous cobra in your backyard?

Run away screaming like a little girl or call the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) for help?

Well, there’s a third option: hire a maid like her.

Poisonous Cobra Appeared in Clementi Home, Maid DGAF & Killed It With a Broom

On 7 May, this cobra appeared in a landed property near Dover MRT.

Carlos Chua, a full-time NSF was the first one to notice the snake and told his family to stay indoors. He also instructed for their 12-year-old beagle to be locked up.

Then, he left at 8.30 am for work.

His maid, a Filipino who only wanted to be known as Ms Mhelyn decided to do something about the situation.

Holding on to a one-metre broom handle, she tried to chase the 50-cm long snake out but it got agitated instead.

That was when she started hitting the cobra, and in the end, split its body into two.

By the way, she was chanting something while doing it.

Then, she threw the carcass away.

Remember what I said about getting a maid like her? I’m kidding.

Please don’t subject your maid to that ordeal, it’s dangerous.

Call the Acres rescue hotline at 9783 7782 instead. You can think of it as them rescuing you from the snake.

Or in this case, rescuing the snake from maids like her.

But watch the video for yourself, the maid is scary AF.

Jurong West Dengue Cluster Still Persisting, 5 More Cases Reported

In case you missed it, Jurong West St 91 and 92 has a red-alert dengue cluster, and it has already claimed three lives.

In latest dengue cluster statistics provided on the NEA website, 7 more dengue cases have been reported.

This brings the total of cases reported to 67.

PLUS, an additional HDB block, 944, was added to the list with dengue cases reported.

The number of dengue cases reported was 80 over the past week, a spike from 56 dengue cases reported the week before.

Most of the dengue cluster’s breeding habitat comes from residential homes.

So make sure you do the mozzie wipeout diligently to drive these nasty critters out of your home.

Plus, put on insect repellent when you go out, okay?

Stay safe, people.

Passer-by Called Police After Seeing Two ‘Dead’ Men in Car, Only To Find Out They’re Allegedly Druggies

Imagine one day, you were walking through a carpark when you see a car with two men inside, dead to the world.

No matter how hard you knock, they just don’t respond.

You’ll call the police immediately, right?

That was what happened at a carpark near Foch Road on 8 May.

A passer-by stumbled upon two men in a car and called the police, thinking they were dead.

When the police arrived, they discovered that the men, aged 23 and 26, were drunk and suspected to be abusing drugs.

When they searched the car, they found substances that were believed to be drugs. In addition, the 23-year-old was also found with a weapon.

Both men were arrested for suspected drug-related offences, with the younger man also charged with possession of a dangerous weapon.

Grab Reducing Discounts For Riders And Incentives For Drivers

Instead, they’re switching them to other forms of rewards.

If you’re a Grab user, you’ll probably realise that there’s a reduction in the number of promo codes offered to customers.

Grab Singapore head Lim Kell Jay said that this has been happening “for a while”, and isn’t in response to the loss of their competitor, Uber.

Instead of giving discounts to riders, Grab is switching to a new form of reward system. Riders are able to earn points for rides taken.

And using these points, riders can choose to redeem rewards from Grab’s reward catalogue. In an overview of the situation, Mr Lim feels that it’s more exciting as there won’t be a limit on redemption for the rewards, unlike the promo codes.

As for cutting incentives for drivers, Grab says that they’re switching to a new system as well.

The transport company has partnered with various car leasing companies and petrol stations to give discounted petrol and car rentals to their drivers.

This will help the drivers cut back on costs of driving for Grab which, in turn, will increase their revenue.

Japan Going All Out In Bid For KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail, Offers Facial Recognition Technology

When it comes to Japan, we know that quality is assured.

So how happy will you be to know that Japan is building the KL-Singapore high-speed rail? Very, right?

Japan is more than happy to build it for us too.

So much so that they’re offering their facial recognition technology to sweeten the deal.

Japan’s Ambassador to Malaysia Makio Miyagawa said that they’ll be including their facial recognition technology when building the high-speed rail to facilitate smooth and fast clearance at immigration checkpoints.

He believes that without fast immigration clearance, the high-speed rail experience wouldn’t be completed.

And he knows what he’s talking about since Japan was one to invent the high-speed railway.

Which is, by the way, accident-free since 1964.

Japan is willing to transfer its bullet train technology to Singapore and Malaysia so that our own people can operate the system from the get-go.

I don’t know about you but I’m really hoping the Japanese gets the job. I’ll feel safer.

Don’t you think so?

Babysitter Took in Ex-Convict Out of Kindness, He Repaid Her By Ill-Treating Toddler Under Her Care

It’s guys like this that gives ex-convicts a bad name. It’s because of people like him that no one is willing to trust an ex-convict, no matter how much he wants to change.

On 8 May, it was reported that this ex-convict ill-treated a two-year-old baby girl, causing injuries to her genitals. She had to undergo surgery.

Suhaimi Juma’at approached his cousin for help after his release from prison as he had nowhere to stay.

His cousin introduced him to this babysitter, who decided to take him in for free. Suhaimi offered to take care of the baby when she was not in the house.

He bought a straw of methamphetamine, or Ice, on 24 Feb 2017. He consumed about 3g of it at one go.

The next day, he babysat the girl.

The baby girl defecated outside the toilet at around 4 pm the next day, agitating him.

Then when he was cleaning her, she started playing with water in another pail.

Angry, he started rubbing her private parts roughly, causing tears. It was said that he even touched her internally.

When the toddler was brought home an hour later, they discovered blood in her pampers.

She was brought to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and had to undergo surgery for two tears found in her private parts.

For one count of child abuse and 4 drug-related offences, he was sentenced to 10 years and nine months’ jail and eight strokes of the cane.

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