Taxi stomping : Vietcong arrested for disorderly behaviour

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Feb 17, 2010

Taxi stomping: woman held

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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> POLICE have arrested a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman who climbed on top of a taxi and jumped on its roof, while screaming and kicking its advertisement board, for almost an hour yesterday. Residents of an HDB block overlooking Hougang Avenue 9 said they awoke to the bizarre scene outside their windows, which took place at about 8am. 'I woke up to what I thought was noise from some construction, but I looked down to see this young woman stomping on the top of a taxi. She seemed hysterical,' said an eyewitness who lives on the 10th floor of the block, who gave his name only as Mr Letchumanan. Police said they received a call at 8.45am yesterday, and arrived to find the woman still on top of the CityCab taxi.

She was arrested for disorderly behaviour. The cabby did not want to be interviewed, but said in his statement to the police that the woman had flagged down his taxi and then climbed on top of it when he stopped his vehicle. Eyewitnesses said the woman was screaming in Mandarin but they could not make out what she was saying. She was seen jumping on the cab's roof and kicking its advertisement signboard until it broke. Mrs Joanna Ho, 33, who watched the incident from her flat on the block's 15th floor, said the woman climbed down at one point and quarrelled with the taxi driver. She then lay down in the middle of the road, causing a traffic build-up, and chased after a car before climbing on top of the taxi again.

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Cab-stomping Viet charged

Singapore
Feb 19, 2010

Cab-stomping Viet charged

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Hunyh Thanh Ha, 19, unemployed, is accused of gesticulating and acting aggressively while shouting in the presence of police. -- PHOTO: STOMP

<!-- story content : start --> A YOUNG Vietnamese woman who allegedly stomped on top of a taxi on Tuesday has been charged with disorderly behaviour. Hunyh Thanh Ha, 19, unemployed, is accused of gesticulating and acting aggressively while shouting in the presence of police despite being warned several times along Hougang Avenue 9. She has been remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for psychiatric assessment. Her next court appearance is on March 4. If convicted, she can be fined up to $1,000 or jailed for one month.

 

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Taxi stomper jailed for drugs


Jul 27, 2010
Taxi stomper jailed for drugs

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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> SHE made the headlines by stomping on the roof of a taxi early this year and then lying down in the middle of Hougang Avenue 9, causing vehicles to come to a screeching halt. On Tuesday, Huynh Thanh Ha appeared contrite in the dock of a district court. With tears running down her cheeks, the Vietnamese national pleaded guilty to taking drugs the night before her bizarre behaviour and was jailed six months for drug consumption.

The 19-year-old, who is married to a Singaporean, was also jailed two weeks for endangering public safety by acting rashly and lying down in the middle of a road. As the second sentence was ordered to run concurrently, she will serve only six months behind bars. Asking the court to impose a lenient sentence on Huynh, her lawyer Tan Cheng Kiong told the court that his client had marital woes. She had married a 39-year-old Singaporean man in July last year but found it difficult to settle down here.

She would try to drown her sorrows with liquor and on Feb 15 she met a Vietnamese woman who passed her a red pill which her new friend claimed would make her feel much better. Instead, Huynh ended up intoxicated and committing offences such as lying on a busy road the next morning, the lawyer said. Two other charges for causing damage amounting to $428 by stomping on the roof of the taxi and ignoring police warnings to calm down, were taken into consideration by the judge when sentencing.

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