Basket.

I will now make full use of free cable Internet to post from camp, courtesy of your parents' (and mine) tax dollars.

The Sunday Times yesterday interviewed the woman who reported the racist blogs. She did it by calling 999... which is not what the emergency number is made for.

And no one seemed to care. For years, the police have been telling the public not to misuse the number. Now, they have not one but two perfect examples of people doing just that (this lady and the person who reported the Buangkok MRT white elephants) and no one is batting an eyelash. Everyone's simply too obsessed with the bloggers and the obvious great harm they have caused to our harmonious civil society.

Nor does the woman seem to know or care that she abused the emergency hotline. The way she spoke during the interview, it was the most natural thing in the world to do. I think she ought to be hauled up for misusing 999, which is also an offence. Because an emergency number is just that - a number you call only in the case of emergencies. Like if someone is being slashed to death with broken beer bottles, or you've just been robbed, or there is this monstrous python in the storm drain outside your house which will soon enter and choke the life-force out of you. While the racist comments were a grave threat to national security, they were hardly an emergency. It's not like they are going to spark off this disastrous mass race riot in the next minute or what.

The white elephants? I don't even want to talk about what a silly use of the number that one was. Or what a waste of police resources the whole damned investigation was. Then again, our policemen don't seem to have much to do on days when people don't strangle each other and scatter butchered body parts around Singapore.

Seriously, punish those who have done wrong. All of them.