The block reportedly has a rampant high-rise littering problem. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – In an extreme case of high-rise littering, a 29-year-old man was on Friday arrested for allegedly throwing a bicycle, microwave and television out of his HDB flat window.
The 37-year-old security guard said: “I heard the sound of glass shattering and immediately felt something was amiss. From my kitchen window, I saw a bicycle and some glass bottles being hurled out of a flat.” Mr Tan, who has being living at Block 223A Sumang Lane for nearly three years, said: “Every day, people throw animal waste and bloody sanitary pads down. I have seen my neighbours doing it.”He added that students frequently pass by the block on their way to school and a boy in uniform was once hit by falling scat.
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