Clearly, I've never been to Singapore

Sigh... and not the good kind...

Remember when Captain Jack Sparrow says to Miss Orlando Bloom "clearly you've never been to Singapore..."? (i may have that wrong, but whatev...)

Well... he may have been on to something, as it seems to be a very different world.

From Reuters:
"Singapore man with a penchant for sniffing women's armpits was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for molesting his victims, a local newspaper reported Friday."

The article goes on to say that his penchant for sniffing armpits is not just an identifying trait, but the reason he is in trouble... just to clarify.

So this guy molests women in a very odd way... repeatedly. 23 women over the course of 15 months, apparently. He is clearly not stable, and i think that 23 known occurrences certainly counts as "repeat offenses."

So good, lock him up, keep the women safe. It makes sense. But 18 strokes of the cane? Is this like 1770 or something?

(To be read in a high-class British accent): "You sir, have been most naughty, and in lieu of a penalty of 30 days in the stocks in the towne square, we have elected to induce the penalty of cane-ing. You shall receive 18 strikes of the cane to the buttocks in the town center as a public spectacle of humiliation and degradation (women shall be excluded from said spectacle), where your buttocks shall be beaten until red. This decree is sent forth from..."

you get the idea. Anyway, that is just what a perverted sexual molester needs... a spanking.