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MRT stations will be deploying metal detectors and X-Ray scanners to help with detecting prohibited items in Singapore. Commuters will be subjected to random checks (like how the random bag checks are carried out now). Currently, the detectors and scanners are deployed at 5 different locations: Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Bukit Panjang, Little India and Yishun MRT stations.

Signages are put up to show a list of prohibited items. You can see the list here:

LTA claims that this will not be a hindrance to our day to day lives and advices us not to bring big baggages if we are in a rush. Don't you think that is ridiculous? We might have to bring along baggages for work or if we're going overseas. Doesn't that mean we have to leave our houses earlier? Netters have already been showing their doubts on this new security feature. Won't this move piss the public off more?

Yishun and crime seems to go hand on hand. However, a man found out the tragic way that crime often does not pay. In the early hours of 9 November, a 25 year old man fell to his death form an eight storey unit of Block 512C Yishun Street 51. 

This was after he allegedly broke into the flat of his 35 year old friend, stealing up to $7,000 worth of items. The man was brought to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital after SCDF was alerted, but he subsequently died in hospital. The friend, Lim, did not even realise that he had been robbed in the first place, or that a man had actually fallen to his death fro his unit. The man had apparently entered and exited the unit via the kitchen window, which was not locked. Lim only found out he was robbed, and that the dead man was his friend, when the police came knocking and asked if he had lost any valuables.

Reports claimed that the man and Lim had became friends when they met each other while serving prison time. Police are still investigating the matter. 

Netizen Miaofen Lim‎ posted on Facebook a video of a man quarreling with her family. The man parked his car under a sheltered drop off point and refused to move away. The man even asked Lim's 2 children to just walk under the rain. Is there a reason for the man to be so rude and inconsiderate?

"His father own this shelter walkway and kanna scolded by him by asking him to give way to us. He's not happy and came down and quarrel. Its drizzling and still can tell us that is not drizzling. Still can asked my 2 young children to walkover and they won't get sick of it. We asked him and he is waiting for someone to pass him something. There's no car infront of him and we don't understand why he can't move forward #SJR9536Z"

The recent case of food poisoning that made 49 people ill and caused 21 people to be hospitalised, is more serious than first feared. The restaurant, Spize had supplied 88 bento sets for a company's Deepavali party, but reports now indicated that one of those who consumed the food, is in a critical condition in the ICU.

The man had not been identified, but according to reports, he was a SATS officer who was deployed to Brink's Singapore, who held the celebration on their premises. The officer is understood to have his lungs and kidney affected. 

The NEA, MOH and AVA had issued a joint statement last Friday that investigations into the case of food poisoning is currently ongoing, and that the restaurant is now suspended until NEA is satisfied that the public health risk have been addressed. The co-owner of Spize had written a Facebook post apologizing to all its customers, and seek their understanding and patient as they try to resolve the issue. 

A video that has been circulating online reportedly shows a taxi that was travelling on the right most lane on an SG road, stopped suddenly just so the cabby can pick up a passenger from a road divider.

On the video posted on November 12, the taxi can be quite clearly seen braking hard to a full stop, and a would be passenger opening the right side of the taxi's passenger door. The incident supposedly happened at Mandai Road on November 11 at around 7:45pm. The taxi is a red one, meaning the driver most likely hailed from Trans-Cab. Although the taxi had its hazard lights on when it suddenly brake, it definitely broke all the Laws of the Singapore roads, where you definitely cannot stop a taxi to pick up a passenger on the right most lane. 

The vehicle behind was forced to stop, and started honking loudly, before being forced to move off from the second lane. Most who viewed the video have called for the video be sent to the Traffic Police for further actions to be taken. 

A family of three had more than they bargained for when heading home, when the three of them were badly hurt when the escalator they were on at King Albert Park MRT station jerked slightly, sending them tumbling down.

68 year old Mr Kuang Bor Yuan said he was on the traveling on the upwards escalator when he felt a sudden jerk on Tuesday night. He then lost his balance and fell backwards, which in turn caused his wife and sister-in-law standing below him to tumble as well. This ended up in all three of them falling halfway down the escalator, which was still moving.

Mr Kuang's 63 year old wife had suffered cuts to her head when she hit them on the escalator steps, while Mr Kuang himself suffered from bruises on his back, scratches on his shoulder, and a sprained ankle and cuts to the ankle. His sister-in-law's injuries were not specified. Both Mr Kuang and his sister-in-law was discharged from hospital since, but his wife was transferred to Alexandra Hospital, as she was still feeling dizzy and developed a fever subsequently.