If you’ve signed on to be an police officer after watching Triple Nine, and think that you can be a James Lye who catches criminals and then slowly evolves into a superhero known as VR Man, you might be sorely disappointed during this COVID-19 period.
Because you could’ve been called to places to “catch” people who aren’t wearing a mask.
And the most exciting action you’d encounter isn’t arresting Kingpin but arresting Sovereigns.
Case in point?
Those cops who had to head down to durian stalls because some sellers didn’t wear their masks properly.
People Called the Cops on Durian Sellers That Didn’t Wear Masks Properly
If you’ve downloaded our app and come in daily, you’d know that while the prices of everything have increased, prices of durians have dropped.
Malaysia is expecting a drop in demand because Singaporeans aren’t visiting JB for durians. People are also used to visiting roadside stalls instead of dabaoing or delivering, so domestic demand is also dropping.
In Singapore, companies have to cancel durian parties, so that’s another factor.
But that has unexpected consequences: crowds in durian stalls right here in Singapore.
According to Shin Min Daily, two durian stalls at Circuit Road were packed with customers on an evening.
And according to a taxi driver, the stalls will be open from 2pm to 8pm, and there would be times when there were up to 20 customers gathering without any safe distance.
It got so bad that someone even called the cops.
But then again, there might be a legit reason for the sellers to pull down their masks to their chins instead of over their nose, though it might not be legal.
Need to Smell the Durian
According to a stallholder, the reason for having the mask down is to smell the durian for its quality.
Not sure how many rules that single action would have broken (you’re almost kissing the thing that you’re selling), but that’s one legit reason that no one else can give.
However.
According to another durian stallholder (who most likely has his mask on), there are other ways to test the quality of the durian, which include knocking on the durian lah, shaking it lah, etc.
It’s also unsafe to use a finger to test the flesh of the durians nowadays due the pandemic, so sellers have now resorted to using their knives to test them instead.
It’s only when the customers demand that the seller will smell it to determine the quality.
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Nevertheless, if you can smell durian after reading this article, there are now many online durian stalls that deliver islandwide. Simply Google for them instead of heading down to a durian stall.
Because it’d be sad to read this on MOH’s daily press release: “Case 41220 is linked to a durian stall because he die-die want to have durians during Phase One period.”
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