Incompetency.

At 9:32 AM on Thursday, November 17, 2005

Dad was telling me about how incompetent Singapore policemen are. He commented on that after hearing a public’s appeal to the radio station about how he called the police for 3 times and they did not come to his rescue. Then, he quoted me this incident he saw some time ago at his previous workplace. Someone called the police after he saw a group of Indians and sensed something’s not right. True enough, there was a fight after that. But the police arrived only after the man ran away appearing to be fast and efficient checking on this and that. What took so long for the police to arrive when the call has been made long before the incident happened? Dear Mr Policemen, please do not make it as if you all take the taxpayer’s money and do nothing. At least that’s what many people think. Please prove us wrong. Immediately after Dad finish, we saw an ambulance zoom past. First, they stopped by a motorist probably taking a rest (no idea what were they doing) at e road shoulder thinking they are the casualties then realised they are not and moved on. Then they stopped again at the chevron markings (not sure what they are called, just some markings that cars are not supposed to cross or stop at). Then Dad and I thought the accident might be there. But to our surprise, when we past the ambulance, guess what we saw? The driver, had his head popped out of the window (it was drizzling though), and was looking into his side mirror, COMBING HIS HAIR! Dad and I went like WHAT?!?!?! We were totally amazed! First he zoomed past us so fast and the fact that they stopped by the motorist thinking they are the casualties, so we thought they must have been informed of an urgent case somewhere. And since there’s an urgent case, why should you be stopping somewhere with nothing happening and comb your hair? If there really is an urgent case, think what might have happened to the casualty while waiting for you to come and rescue and there you are taking your time to comb your hair. We really find this ridiculous. Dad said a pity we do not have a camera to take down his actions and report against him because we were just next to him and saw exactly what he was doing. Just after Dad finished his piece about the policemen and there we saw for ourselves the paramedics. Disappointing.

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CarysMummy