Michael Fay
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For those interested in knowing what happened to Michael Fay after Singapore,
Michael Fay
Then: "Punishment of four lashes on the bare buttocks with a rattan cane," as The New York Times put it in 1994, hit Michael Fay, an 18-year-old American student living in Singapore. The city-state flogged Fay after he pleaded guilty (he later proclaimed his innocence) to spraying graffiti on cars and stealing road signs. He was jailed for four months and sentenced to six lashes, which was reduced to four following clemency pleas from President Clinton.
Now: Fay, who was living in Singapore with his mother and stepfather, moved to his dad's in Ohio. He shared the state of his tush with Newsweek: "Now on one side there are brown blotches, about 2 inches in diameter, where the flesh was torn. On the other side are four straight lines." According to The Christian Science Monitor, Fay has bounced between Ohio and Florida. He battled a drug habit, worked at Universal Studios, enrolled in college and last made news for a marijuana arrest in 1998. (A current photograph of Fay was not available.)
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Who cares?
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Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
Who cares?
U.
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Originally posted by Xcert:
U.
You too.
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Well..
i still remember i went US/Canada for holiday in 1994 1-2 months after Michael Fay's caning.
No one asked me where "singapore" is when they asked where i came from.
They learned about the country in the news 1-2 months earlier.
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zzz wiki for michael fay
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Who care. Bo liao. U want to attract more viewers izzit.
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Michael Fay's 15 minute of Fame is long over...... Like some OLD POLITICAIN in S'pore.... he should just SHUT UP and fade away.....
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He made a mistake and he paid for it. Let him go and live a new life.
If his new life sucks, it is his problem. He is just one of the hundred of thousands arrested for marijuana abuse.
Lets be graceful, there is no need to dig up old wound.
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this is not really updated ....
I recall reading about him becoming a single dad and arrested for assaulting his girlfriend too .....
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So…. Once a scumbag, always a scumbag??? Looks like he didn’t learn from having eaten the rotan. I think he would be much more well-behaved if he carried on living in Singapore.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
this is not really updated ....
I recall reading about him becoming a single dad and arrested for assaulting his girlfriend too .....
That's true. And in his defense, he blamed Singapore and said that incident scarred him for life. When he was in Singapore, he said his parents divorce scarred him. What a loser, always blaming some one else for his own mistakes. -
If he keeps on committing wrong doings in spite of punishment, it's possible he's having a Personality Disorder
as 1 of the symptoms of a PD is 'never learnt from experience'.Hopefully he'll turn over a new leaf & eventually live a normal life uneventful of criminality.
May the Force be with him & good luck!!
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this is now 2008.
TS is flogging old news for what?
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
this is now 2008.
TS is flogging old news for what?
Perhaps TS wants to brighten up the Monday's blue into green (go man go!!)
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Originally posted by Xcert:
For those interested in knowing what happened to Michael Fay after Singapore,
Michael Fay
Then: "Punishment of four lashes on the bare buttocks with a rattan cane," as The New York Times put it in 1994, hit Michael Fay, an 18-year-old American student living in Singapore. The city-state flogged Fay after he pleaded guilty (he later proclaimed his innocence) to spraying graffiti on cars and stealing road signs. He was jailed for four months and sentenced to six lashes, which was reduced to four following clemency pleas from President Clinton.
Now: Fay, who was living in Singapore with his mother and stepfather, moved to his dad's in Ohio. He shared the state of his tush with Newsweek: "Now on one side there are brown blotches, about 2 inches in diameter, where the flesh was torn. On the other side are four straight lines." According to The Christian Science Monitor, Fay has bounced between Ohio and Florida. He battled a drug habit, worked at Universal Studios, enrolled in college and last made news for a marijuana arrest in 1998. (A current photograph of Fay was not available.)
i really think that caning is excessive and even unnecessary for vandalism. As no one is being threatened or hurt physically, fine and imprisonment should suffice. i also think that teenagers shouldn't be tried like adults as they aren't adults yet. We all know that adolescence can be a trying time for teenagers. They are unable to handle their emotions and behaviour properly. We should give them more leeway when they make mistakes and help them adjust to adulthood. Harsh punishment could embitter them and cause them to view the world with hostility. They would then become ill-adjusted and could continue to cause harm to themselves as well as others in the future. It is very likely that Micheal Fay has been scarred by the divorce of his parents as well as the caning here as he has no one to guide him. To me he is a pitiful soul! -
Originally posted by pearlie27:
i really think that caning is excessive and even unnecessary for vandalism. As no one is being threatened or hurt physically, fine and imprisonment should suffice. i also think that teenagers shouldn't be tried like adults as they aren't adults yet. We all know that adolescence can be a trying time for teenagers. They are unable to handle their emotions and behaviour properly. We should give them more leeway when they make mistakes and help them adjust to adulthood. Harsh punishment could embitter them and cause them to view the world with hostility. They would then become ill-adjusted and could continue to cause harm to themselves as well as others in the future. It is very likely that Micheal Fay has been scarred by the divorce of his parents as well as the caning here as he has no one to guide him. To me he is a pitiful soul!agree!
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dont worry. michael fay have a good chance to become counciller next time.