What are some very strict laws in Singapore? Singapore is one of the most safest places in the world. Let's go through some of the laws. You cannot bring gum into this country. You can bring one little pack for yourself, but if you bring more than one, they might think that you're trying to sell it, so they can pop you with a nice fine. They also cannot be sold anywhere else in the country, and that was to because they didn't want people putting it on the floor and being gross. And like the subway and stuff. It is illegal to be naked in public, including in your own house if your neighbors can see you. Don't do that. Feeding the pigeons can get you a hefty fine. We talk about jaywalking and how you really can't do that in a lot of places, but you really can't do it in Singapore. Like if I have to get there right over there, I have to go all the way down to an actual pedestrian walking and cross and no, I'm not risking it. Littering is a hell no. That means even if you want to smoke a cigarette and you ash on the floor, it's considered littering the moment that you do it. Hefty fines here. They have certain garbage cans every once in a while that have little asterisks on the top. Other than that, you cannot throw your butt on the floor and you can't even ash on the floor in Singapore. You can drop a piece of paper this big, hefty fine. You can't eat or drink on the subway or the MRT. Not flushing the toilet is illegal. There's even some hotels that put in their elevators, like urination detection to make sure nobody's being disgusting in their elevators. Kind of crazy. You cannot join somebody else's Wi-Fi that could be a hefty fine or up to three years in prison. And scams are their number one crime. It's more like money scams, not like tourist scams. So right now that is one of the highest punishable offenses you can do in Singapore. That brings me to the next thing. They believe in corporal punishment. They have caning here. And if you don't know what that is, go look it up. Caning is one of their most popular things to do to people who are going into prison, who are in prison. There are five offenses punishable by death here. And they actually do it. It's by hanging. Number one, and the most popular that people get caught for, drug trafficking. Somebody was hung last week for that. Number two, having a firearm. Firearms are completely illegal here and if you're caught with one, it is punishable by death immediately. If you go into a robbery and they find out you have a gun and you're the second person in the robbery, but you don't have a gun, you knew they had a gun, you're also punishable by death. Now they still have a wait time like the US, but it's more like three to seven years, not 20 to 30 years like in the US. They still get their chance to do the court stuff. Blah blah blah. The next one of course is murder, punishable by death. Or the intent to harm someone at all. And that's the intent to harm someone at all, by the way. The next one is kidnapping with the intent to do harm. And the last one is terrorism. I was surprised SA was on the list. He said, no, SA is on the list for caning. But the number one offense right now for safety is scams of any kind. So if you get caught, you get the max amount of strikes for caning, which is 24. I think here. If you have a caning sentence, they'll have a doctor there for you. He will call it if he thinks you're going to die. You have two options. Let's say you got struck 12. You have 12 left. You could wait till your body's healed, you can come do more of the strikes and then finish your prison sentence. Or if the doctor deems you like, you know, they won't do it to them. They're going to beat them up too badly. They're going to extend your sentence. You know, and you can't finish it. You can't do it again. And how are they going to catch me throwing gum on the floor, blah blah blah? They have over 90,000 cameras. Locals said that while many of these do keep their city safe, the smaller laws aren't punished often, and tourists are given much leniency. When I was there, people were smoking, but never in public places and hid in alleys. There were still cameras. I have not seen one police officer here yet, and my tour guide told me, guess what? You'll never see them because they're always watching the cameras. Seems a little Big Brother, you know? But safe Big Brother. You know, 80% of people here live in government housing. Kind of creepy. Kind of cool information to learn. That's Singapore. And maybe by they're so safe, and also because culture is different.
