Daily Lessons from Life 22 December 2017 - Not quite summon!!

"Summons was not issued for President's convoy that waited along double yellow lines: LTA

SINGAPORE: No summons were issued for cars belonging to President Halimah Yacob's convoy that were waiting along double yellow lines at Prinsep Street, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Friday (Dec 22). 

A photo of an LTA officer talking to the driver of one of the cars, with the special number place "SEP1", was circulating on social media and chat apps such as Telegram.

In response to media queries from Channel NewsAsia, LTA and SPF said in a joint statement that an LTA enforcement officer was conducting his routine patrol along Prinsep Street on Wednesday when he noticed two vehicles waiting along a stretch marked with double yellow lines.

The officer approached the vehicle to ask the driver to drive off, in line with LTA's approach to enforcing the double yellow lines regulation.

"The driver informed the LTA enforcement officer that he was there to pick up the President who was leaving the place. In the midst of the engagement, the President arrived and the driver drove off. There was no summons issued," LTA and SPF said in the statement.

The agencies explained that the Police Security Command (SecCom) provides security protection for the President and other senior political leaders."

Lol. I must admit I was quite excited when I saw the photo n the captioned: "Sgp really law by law n even EP's car also got booked for breaking traffic rules!!"

I must also admit that I don't believe that it is the case as the car has to be where the distance between the protected person n the car is the shortest n most secured.  Hence stopping at illegal parking space is definitly par!!

Now it has been confirmed that there was no summon being issue. A little amusement for Singaporans?

ps: Putin criticised the newly announced strategic view of China n Russia as the chief competitors of USA as "too aggressive"! Maybe he didn't expect a chap who won the presidential election supposedly due to Russians' help would had turned the gun at him!! Alas, he should hv known better than that since Trump is his buddy n r known to do things as he feel right!!