First Time Seen In Singapore

The last time a foreigner (read: white person from a developed nation) was charged for vandalism and sentenced to several excruciating whallops on his ass was back in the 90s when American teenaged punk Michael Fay went on a car-smashing rampage. President Bill Clinton actually stuck his head in our part of the boondocks and requested for leniency on the ratbastard. Well, in our part of the world, we take our ass-kickings seriously, but we take our diplomatic pow-wows even more seriously. So the Fay boy got his 6 whacks reduced to 4. Nobody went home happy (not least Fay himself), but you can't say we gave good ol' Bill the snub.
Earlier this month, two white dudes decided to test the limits of Singaporeans' immense complacency and spray-painted a subway car while it sat pretty in the depot. This flagrant act of artistic up-yours not only revealed that SMRT staff either lack sleep or interest in their own trains (the train was seen plying its usual route, see video, for several hours before a member of public decided to check if this was really a prank or some publicity stunt a-la Singpost), it exposed SMRT's security to ridicule -- the pranksters snipped a hole in the fence with a pair of garden variety shears.
The culprits are one Briton who has since fled our legalistic shores and a Swiss consultant (age 35) who was apprehended, charged, and since released on bail of $100,000. While the rest of the world ponders the fate of the Swiss-roll about to be creamed by the iron-fist of our Penal Code, Singaporeans are left to wonder which sucker is about to take the fall for this latest screw-up of idiotic proportions.
Of course they should also ponder the farcical lack of interest the public displayed in a normally drab MRT train rolling through the station wearing a spanking coat of grafitti.