Singapore - Welcome to the Fine city!

Welcome to the fine city!

There is something that any stranger should know about clean Singapore: it means business.

Singapore has a very elaborate fine system for serious sins. I lifted the following from a Web site that covered the situation.

One can expect a 500-1000$ fine for the following offenses:

Eating or drinking anything on the subway
Littering
Possession of chewing gum
Failure to flush the toilet after using a public facility
Using racial slurs
Spitting in public
Feeding birds
Urinating in an elevator
Jaywalking
Possession of pornography
Using unsecured wireless internet
Smoking in public

More serious “offenses” are dealt with caning (Where your buttocks is spanked with a cane.):

Vandalism
Graffiti
Possession of fire crackers
Overstaying your visa length

Singapore is not messing around. They caned over 6,000 people in one year in 2007. That's a lot of spanking going on, and I'm talking about the spanking that makes you bleed. Anyway, as a tourist, as long as you think about what you're doing and use the trash cans then it should be no problem. :)