A man swimming in the buff at East Coast Park on Monday evening drew a curious crowd and got into a three-hour stand-off with the police.
Some passers-by spotted the naked man as early as about 4.40pm that afternoon. Someone called the police.
Witnesses said it was only at 9pm - some three hours after police arrived - that the man, a 40 year old Singaporean, was coaxed back to shore by the police coast guard.
Some passers-by spotted the naked man as early as about 4.40pm that afternoon. Someone called the police.
Witnesses said it was only at 9pm - some three hours after police arrived - that the man, a 40 year old Singaporean, was coaxed back to shore by the police coast guard.
The article featured a photograph of the man's head bobbing above the water with what appeared to be 2 police coast guard vessels in the background.
Gee, doesn't the coast guard have better things to do than deploy two vessels to coax a naked man back to shore and thereafter arrest him? What harm did he cause to anyone (I can't vouch for the marine life though...)
And it took three hours at that! I mean, armed he may have been with his natural pistol that spurted nothing more than showers of yellow and the occasional white, surely this man could not have been dangerous nor a threat to national security given his naturale state, could he?
And pray tell, who could the complainant be to have felt so offended and violated by the man's act, private as it may actually have been given the shielding opacity of our not-so-pristine waters, to have summoned the police and diverted them away from more pressing national security duties? Darling, if you can't bear to look, turn your head elsewhere and leave that poor man to enjoy his privacy, in every sense of that word.
