Guy Caught Smoking Outside CCK HDB Flat on 3rd Level Shows NEA On the Ball

Last Updated on 2018-11-18 , 5:29 pm

By now, you should know that you mustn’t anyhowly smoke in Singapore.

In two weeks, NEA officers caught two people who were walking on a no-smoking zone with finished cigarette. I don’t know about you, but to me, they’re like ants who could spot an unfinished cake even when you don’t see them—they’re hidden everywhere.

And it’s not just officers: they’ve gone high-tech as well, as they’re looking at implementing thermal cameras to catch smokers.

The cameras might even come with facial recognition feature, so they’ll know it’s you who’s smoking.

But honestly, it’s the officers that deserve a pat in the back (well, it depends on whether you’re a smoker or a non-smoker).

Last month, a guy was caught smoking at an HDB staircase landing—at 10:14 p.m.

Not withstanding the fact that the NEA officers were working at 10:14 p.m., they somehow managed to zoom in to the exact location on where the guy was smoking: either they were patrolling hard af or someone sabo-ed the smoker.

But let’s face it: it’s the latter. If someone had complained, the smoker would have been long gone by the time the NEA officers arrive.

In other words, NEA officers are super garang now.

Don’t believe it? This new incident just validated it.

Someone was caught smoking on an HDB corridor

Lest you’re not aware, you can smoke in your HDB flat, but you can’t do it outside your flat.

Not even on the corridor. I mean, you can blow the smoke out from your flat to the corridor, but you can’t be smoking there.

Here’s the fact of the day for the fortunate folks who don’t have smokers in their house: smokers who don’t smoke at home would usually just get out of their flat and smoke at the corridor.

I mean, void deck is a no-smoking zone, too. If one follows the rules to the T, he’ll have to go down, walk away from the block and smoke somewhere 30,000 km away.

After all, you’d not have expected any NEA officers to come up the HDB blocks, right?

But come they did.

Facebook Post Shows the Garang Level of NEA Officers: Level 99

A Facebook user has posted three images on Facebook group COMPLAINT SINGAPORE, showing that NEA officers fined his friend for smoking at an HDB corridor.

Now, if you look closer at the summons slip, it occurred at Chua Chu Kang Crescent and it was on the third level.

It was then 8:26 p.m.

The exact offence: YOU DID SMOKE A LIGHTED CIGARETTE IN A SPECIFIED PLACE, TO WIT, INSIDE COMMON CORRIDOR WITHIN HDB BLOCK.

The NEA rule is that “Common areas in residential buildings (e.g. common corridors, void decks, stairwells)” is a non-smoking area. In other words, even if you live in a condo, you can’t smoke in the corridor as well.

So you rich fellows think NEA officers can’t come into a condo premises? You wait long long: since September this year, NEA officers would have the powers to enter an area without a warrant if they think that someone is committing an offence.

And to add on (hopefully my colleagues read this), “Offices and common areas of office buildings” are non-smoking zones as well.

So the lesson here? The story of “you can run but you can’t hide” is very real.

Just be a good boy or girl and smoke in the yellow boxes.

Or better still, quit smoking. Your lungs would thank you for that.