Just as you thought that you’ve kept a safe distance from people and would be safe from the coronavirus, you’re faced with another type of virus that spread easily as well and it lingered in your house:
Fake News.
In recent days, this image has gone viral:
It’s mentioned that a person has been issued a warning because he was in his mother’s house, and his address in his NRIC isn’t that house.
And worst of all, a Tweet also said that “the police was doing random checks.”
The exact offence is “Prohibition on social gathering”.
Some people even added an image of police officers standing outside an HDB flat, adding more weight to the story.
But there’s more to it.
SPF Clarified That They Accidently Spotted That Offence
For a start, the police have announced that they do not conduct spot checks on residences to enforce the circuit breaker measures.
Which, if you think about it, is pretty logical: how are they going to check on 1.37 million households 24/7?
They need to do more important things, like restraining this violent fellow and also putting his hat back on his head:
It turns out that the warning is indeed issued by the police, but there’s a story behind it.
Apparently, on 11 April 2020, which matches the date of the image, they were responding to a call for assistance for a family dispute at Jurong West Ave 1.
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When the cops were there, they “discovered that there was a gathering of family members, in particular two who were not from the household living in that residential unit.”
And guess what? Those two were the ones who called the cops.
“The police officers therefore issued a warning to the couple who was not residing there and was not there for an essential purpose, for not complying with the elevated safe distancing measures under the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020.”
To sum it up, those fellows have called the police in to help out in a dispute, and the police found the social gathering offence.
In other words, the police were summoned there; they weren’t going door to door to check if your girlfriend is hiding in your house or not.
The police added, “The police urge the public not to spread unsubstantiated information which may cause public alarm.”
So, once again, don’t create a fan fiction out of an image, like this one that has become a fine for everything you can think of:
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