The number of ways your day can go incredibly wrong just increased by one that comes in a wrapper. Perhaps the authorities don't trust our ability to distinguish between a harmless sweet and a Carl's Junior cheese burger that can seriously create a mess.
I'm not completely shocked by this as we've innacted a lot of pretty extreme rules in our climb from 3rd world to 1st class player on a global stage. If the authorities pick on a person eating sweets but ignore the other public annoyances such as the following, we're clearly enforcing the wrong rules:
- Persons who stand in front of the yellow guide lines meant to create clear passage for alighting commuters.
- Persons who stand on the 'walking' lane of escalators/travellators and hold busy people up.
- Persons who piss all over the toilet seats in stations.
- Persons who sit on the floor near the exits.
- Persons who lean their entire bodies against support poles.
Perhaps the only leniency we're given is that the enforcers wear a hideous red outfit so you cannot say you didn't spot them 6 carriages away. When I see one of these guys, I'll start coughing (an act that gets everyone's attention) and we'll pass this codeword down the cars. The next time you're on the MRT, look around for walking 'Hong Baos' before you pop that breath mint into your mouth.
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