The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore

Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by dehrmann on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:18PM (#24023561)

I know someone who accidentally brought a joint into Singapore but wasn't caught. The thresholds seem high enough that there aren't random tourists getting hung over it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore...

I also wonder what would happen if you declare the drugs. Would they assume good intent (because you declared the drugs), and let you surrender them without penalty?

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by lordnacho on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:26PM (#24024035)

A friend of a friend wasn't so lucky. Went to Thailand, had some drugs left over, forgot to dump it.

Executed.

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by Mizza on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:35PM (#24024086)

Woah. Can you elaborate a bit on that? What drugs? How did he get caught? Did his nation try to intervene on his behalf?

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by dehrmann on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:07PM (#24024300)

Yeah, I'm going to call BS.

Thailand has executed 3 people since 2004[1]. One was a robbery gone bad. The two in 2009 were drug traffickers with $1M in meth from arrests in 2001[2]. I couldn't find a source, but their names look Thai.

Apparently a bunch are waiting to be executed, though.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Thailand

2: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bangkok,-drug-traffickers-exe...

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by JimDabell on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:47AM (#24026839)

Perhaps I’m wrong but I understood the comment to mean that the person went from Singapore to Thailand, bought drugs there, then forgot to get rid of them before returning to Singapore. So Singapore executed them, not Thailand.

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by dehrmann on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:01PM (#24029842)

Rereading it, that could be what they meant, and the thresholds for cocaine and heroin are low enough for that to happen.

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by lordnacho on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:50PM (#24032472)

This is correct. Pretty banal, just a short trip from Singapore to Thailand to have some fun. Not a drug kingpin. Left some very shocked friends.

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