Netizen Visited By Police After Online Comment About Throwing An Egg At Law & Home Affairs Minister

Egg throwing is commonly frowned upon.

And thanks to movies and shows, we’ve associated this activity with people we dislike.

Negative connotation aside, I’ll have you know that egg throwing is actually a well-known sport in Europe, according to India Times. In fact, it was also mentioned that there is an annual World Egg Throwing Federation championship in Swaton, England.

Unfortunately, in this case, we have to bring the negative connotation back.

2 Singaporeans on the radar for eggy Facebook comments

According to The New Paper, a report against two netizens was made on 19 March 2019.

The netizens in question are 20-year-old Edmund Zhong and an unnamed 47-year-old man.

Zhong had written a comment on Channel NewsAsia‘s Facebook post, suggesting that “he wanted to throw an egg at Mr Shanmugam”.

The unnamed 47-year-old replied with “information on the Minister’s upcoming Meet-the-People session.”  

In addition to these comments, other netizens have replied with “i will supply the egg” and “Go on” respectively but it seems that they are off the radar.

Investigations underway

It was reported by The Straits Times that the comments are regarded as an offence of communicating an electronic record to incite violence under Section 267C of the Penal Code.

Offenders guilty of this will be “jailed for up to five years or fined, or both.” As such, the threats are taken seriously by the police who have been working with both netizens to conduct the necessary investigations.

A Visit From The Police

Not long after, Edmund Zhong took to the Facebook page, Complaint Singapore, to update everyone about the situation.

He claimed that he was visited by 2 policemen from the Ang Mo Kio Division Headquarters with regards to his egg-throwing comment.

Along with this is a photo of an official message from the police, asking Edmund to meet with an investigating officer at the Ang Mo Kio Headquarters.

He added that he “felt a mix of emotions as I didn’t expect a harmless but straightforward comment” to attract “so much reaction.”

Edmund ended off his post with clown and joker emojis, possibly implying that it was a joke to him.

Moral of The Story

Don’t type comments on the internet and brush things off as a joke just because you feel “safer” online.

Every comment you make has consequences. Either it makes your next job’s HR department less impressed with you, or you get into trouble like this guy.

Remember, when you think nobody’s watching…somebody’s watching you right now.

Boss arh, you very the handsome.