The New Paper
05 September 2014
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- The Hoax’s on Him
The Hoax’s on Him
Man gets 10 months’ jail for MRT station bomb threat When he told a Choa Chu Kang MRT station master that he had a bomb in his bag in January, Imran Othman meant it as a joke.
But in the end, nobody thought it was funny.
Such threats would result in unnecessary deployment of resources, security expert Yang Razali Kassim told The New Paper yesterday.
Said the senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University: “Whether a joke or not, it’s still an alarm (that) triggers the deployment of huge resources. Imagine the wastage if it turns out to be a joke.”
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