Most of us see such ads daily. Stuck all over the place, on lamp poles, bus stop shelters, walls of common properties, etc. The only places that are free of such ads are the walls of public toilets because these are cleaned a few times every day and the cleaners remove them. So the culprits who stick them up know it's a waste of time and money to plaster them on toilet walls.
Sticking such ads on public property dirties and defaces the public proerty and the act is plain littering and vandalism. The culprits should be fined, jailed and caned. Hang them? why not?
The irresponsible, inconsiderate act, nay, criminal act, requires cleaning up after at extra cost to us all. It's no wonder our conservancy costs keep going up.
It is getting rampant because there is no publicity of action being taken against these vandals. Possibly because enforcement action is not being taken at all.
Report to your Town Council and they'll reprimand the cleansing contractor for their tardiness in removing the ads resulting in your "public complaint". I always wonder why the TC doesn't call those advertised telephone numbers and get the advertiser's particulars and go prosecute them.
And as it is littering of a kind, why doesn't the National Enviroment Authority catch and prosecute these litterbugs?
And, can't the senior officers of NEA and advisors to TC's ie the MP's see all these cases of vandalism? Are they all blind? or what?
Or have all those in senior positions gone so complacent that their underlings follow suit and we're to face such situations in the heartlands where we live while they live in their expensive condominiums where there are no public properties to be so defaced?
A lot of people are not doing their work.
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I remember a comment made by our MM some years ago, that S'pore is far away from being a civil society. He made this comment whilst comparing his time as a student in UK where people take newspapers from an unmanned kiosk but they leave the payment into a box. This I believe is also moral ethics.....
Coming back to posters in public areas. In Shinjuku, Tokyo during weekends every street corner, lampost, telebooth is pasted with "offered services" , but come monday morning all these pasted posters mysteriously disappear. It's as though someone/somebody takes the trouble to clean up the weekend sins. When can we be like that.....I wonder!
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