Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Taking a notification seriously





This is a notice on the ground floor of a HDB block of flats.


Why would anyone take this poster seriously?  
Let me see - it's from the Singapore Police Force - so it must be authentic - oh wait - we have lots of scammers these days - Let's take a closer look.

Probably not authentic  since Who would print a public poster with an unforgivable grammatical error? 
Printing isn't free - the cost has to be from somewhere.
Perhaps private funds were raised, because I surely would like to believe that public funds are being used WELL.

Imagine the many many school going children, waiting for the lift, their eyes stray to this notice and THEY LEARN PASSIVELY that BAD ENGLISH is acceptable for print in Singapore, because the people who 'represent the law' did it.