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LINK Explain when train's emergency button can be used ON TUESDAY night, I was taking the south-bound MRT train towards Ang Mo Kio. At Yio Chu Kang station, a woman asked for help in a desperate tone, then pressed the emergency button on the train. I realised that an elderly man had his arm caught between the train doors. The doors did not re-open after the usual few seconds, and his arm was stuck for about a minute. When the doors did open, the old man entered the train and was unharmed. However, an SMRT staff member came and demanded to know who had pressed the button. When the woman owned up, he asked in frustration: "Why you press the button?" Later, when the train stopped at Ang Mo Kio station, the woman was detained and further questioned. Thankfully, another man stood up for her. When is the right time to press the emergency button? If someone gets caught between the train doors, are we supposed to wait until the train starts moving before we press the button? Perhaps SMRT can clarify the protocol for using the emergency button.

He's a free man eventually and now write articles for ST... those who remember him will know who he is. He gives talk in HK etc on freedom of speech / the press... wonder if he'll be invited to his home country to give the same talks? ST featured him today.

Just came across this while searching online. Seems like the incident happened December 2010. Wonder if driver is from this forum. Anyway, he was charged and fined 18600thb in court and given back passport after a month. Just to share. http://rastforum.com/index.php?topic=642.0 Hello Everyone, I am new in here. Just a brief introduction of myself and why am i in here. I am from Singapore and currently i am being detained in Phuket Thailand, Please allow me to share with you, what actually happened. With a group of friends,that are keen 4x4 drivers, we drove from Singapore, via Malaysia to Phuket Thailand. With the need to communicate in the convoy, we were all using walkie talkies in our cars, as it was expensive to communicate via mobile phones. All went well when we crossed the international border into Thailand, but my nightmare started when we were driving in Phuket Island on the 1st of December and we were stopped at a routine roadblock at Kamala checkpoint in Phuket. I was detained as i was using a handheld Yaesu FT60 Walkie talkie and i found out at the moment that it was illegal to use this in thailand. Despite my explainations that i was using it for car to car communications and i was unaware that a license was required to bring or use it in thailand, it fell on deaf ears. The Officer asked me for a bribe of 20,000bt to let me go, but i politely explained to him that i didnt have that much cash on me and it was in the hotel room. We couldnt' communicate well and therefore i made a call to the Singapore embassy in Thailand and asked the officer to translate for me. After passing the phone to the officer and after my embassy has spoken to the thai police officer, i was detained and driven to the police station where i was thrown into the prison lock up for a night. I was susbquently released on bail the next day, when my Singaporean friends bailed me out for a whopping 100,000 bt, the thai cell mate that shared the cell with me, was locked up for possesion of drugs and his bail was only 40,000 bt. I was told to report back on the police station on the 9th of december when my understanding was that i would be sent to the court to face the sentence. but it wasn't the case, i was instead taken to the thai immigration department to extend my passport where i paid 1900bt to extend my passport and had to give 500bt to the policeman as "service charge". Up to today, i do not know my charge and i was told that i had to remain in thailand and unable to return to thailand for like 1-2months while they investigate and send the walkie talkie for investigations and testing. I have since engaged a lawyer and he is doing all his best to get me home. right now, i am stranded in phuket thailand and unable to return home because of a possession of a walkie talkie. I do not know how soon i can return home but i really do miss home and just want to get home asap. I might risk losing my job back in Singapore and my finances are drying up even as i stay in Phuket. This is my 3rd time visiting Phuket, and it is indeed a beautiful country with lovely people,throughout my ordeal. I have met and made new friendships with the thai people. i am appealing to all in this forum for any form of assistance, advice. It was suppose to be a holiday but it turned into a nightmare. As a tourist, there was no way that i would ever be aware of such "strict" laws governing the use of walkie talkies in thailand. Best Regards

i started this topic on behalf of helpmeplease: I'm from Malaysia. my brother was detained on last Sunday, by Changi police. and he just manage to make a very short call to us that he did something against law and now detained by police. we didn't know what is happening and couldn't get in touch with him since then. after we called to check with police department by department , then we realise that my brother is charged under credit card fraud. We were so shocked, sad n disappointed. but anyway, we believe that he must be cheated by his bad friends. he have a good job in Malaysia, we are very close and we just had dinner on the day before. he didn't told us that he is going to Singapore at all. although we are not in rich family, we didn't even think to do anything that is against Law. we had consult with Singapore Police station, and being told that only Singaporean can apply from court to 'take'(保释) him out. but we don't know any Singaporean. is that means there're no alternative way? Do anyone know for this kind of case, what is the outcome? Fine? roughly how much? Do anyone know any accomodation that is cheap? because i need to go to Singapore to get things clear and i want to see my brother. my sister and i were crying day n night thinking of him. we didn't told both of my parents as my father got stroke, and kidney problem (now doing dialysis), my mother got heart problem. It is really hard for us to keep lying to them that brother is working in singapore now. i know they have some doubt for this as it is impossible that my brother didn't tell them before and why can't reach his cell phone. but what to do, i can't let anything happenned to my parents again. i'm feeling helpless.. we were feeling hopeless and have no direction of what to do.. somemore i'm jobless for half year and now taking care of my newborn baby. What happenned now is such a BIG stone stacking on my back. but i know i love my brother and i know there're must be some story at the back that make him done this. Could anyone pls give me some advice and answer my question as above as soon as possible? Thanks for reading this and hope to share your advice.. ___________________________________________ Thanks for all who advise me to call the Malaysian embassy.i had make several calls and was being told that they can't do anything for us and just can ensure my brother is doing fine at there.. Can anyone help me to start a new topic as i'm a newbie at this forum? Pls put the topic as 'My brother being detained by Changi Police.Pls HELP!'. Hope someone can also suggest a cheap accomodation which i need when i travel to S'pore to visit my brother in next few days. Thanks a lot for your help!

This posting is meant to take off some heavy topics of the chest. So let's not dwell on religious issues. We know that his action does not reflect the true teaching of Islam, let alone being a normal human being. [/color] Equality aside, I wonder how he takes care the urge of all his wives. Hint: his age. Unless he marries them for show only. But which normal cat will let a fish slips through its nose??... Does he live on made-in-Nigeria viagra??... Another question - how on earth those women submitted to his proposal? . A con man's job? Man with 86 wives detained ABUJA (Nigeria) - A NIGERIAN Muslim court on Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them. The authorities in central Niger state charged Mohammed Bello with 'insulting religious creed' and 'unlawful marriages' after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him until Sept 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time. The preacher, who lives with his wives and some 170 children in the town of Bida, pleaded not guilty to the charges at an Upper Sharia Court in the state capital Minna. Judge Abdul Imam, who rejected Bello's bail application and ordered that he be remanded in prison to allow police complete their investigation, adjourned the case to Oct 6. Bello's detention came barely a week after he was granted temporary reprieve by a civil court in the Nigerian capital Abuja where he filed a petition against local chiefs and Muslim leaders who threatened to banish him if he failed to divorce 82 of his wives. The preacher said the threats violated his right to life and personal liberty. The court gave Bello temporary protection from banishment, but the Niger State Sharia Commission decided on Monday to charge him at an Islamic court. Bello had received a number of death threats after the Nigerian media began reporting on his unusual marital situation, his spokesman said. Some newspapers said earlier in September that Bello had agreed at a meeting with local officials to divorce all but four of his wives and had asked for time to return them to their families. But his spokesman later denied the reports and said the preacher intended to marry more wives instead. His case has stirred controversy in Africa's most populous nation of 140 million people, roughly half of whom are Muslim. Many Muslim scholars say Islam allows men to have up to four wives at any given time who must be treated equally. -- REUTERS http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNew...ory_279060.html