The real story of how Adelyn Hosehbo stole $10,000 worth of jewellery from her mum and got robbed by her “friends”?

Adelyn Hosehbo getting robbed by her "friends"?

This bizarre crime story surfaced in the newspapers recently:

女生偷母7000金饰　反遭2友洗劫 (omy.sg/Lianhe Wanbao, 21 Dec 2011)

小偷遇小劫匪！14岁美少女偷母亲金饰，典当换得7000元，凌晨却被2好友洗劫一空！

家住北部组屋的美少女，自小较为顽皮，小六误交损友，又染上逃课恶习，上中学后变本加厉，竟然偷偷将母亲的金饰拿去当铺，典当得到约7000元。

她非但没有遮遮掩掩，还向一众好友炫耀，结果2天后（8月20日）凌晨2时30分，在住家楼下被好友洗劫一空。

抢钱的2个男孩，一个17岁，另一个只有15岁，都是中学生。

美少女马上报警求助，她的母亲过后接到警方电话才得知此事。

逃课抽烟交损友，母盼她两三年后能懂事。

Girl steals from mum, then gets robbed (The New Paper, 23 Dec 2011)

She was just a Primary 6 student, but her desire to own branded goods made her steal and sell her mother’s jewellery. And little did she expect that of the $10,000 she received from pawning the valuables, her friends would rob her of $7,000.

The girl, 14, had got a friend to pawn the jewellery. She then spent $3,000 to buy, among others, a Gucci bag, a Louis Vuitton wallet and Chanel perfume.

But several days later, she met up with two male friends, aged 15 and 17, at a void deck, where she was robbed of $7,000.

It recounts the tale of a 14-year-old girl who stole $10,000 worth of jewellery  from her mum to buy Gucci, LV and Chanel goodies. After pawning the jewellery for cash, the silly girl ended up getting robbed by her two male friends.

Sounds familiar?

The profile and story matches the story of how the infamous Adelyn Hosehbo had allegedly stole from her own mum.

She was not named in the news article to protect her identity as a minor, but one can easily piece the news together with her own confession on one of her multiple Facebook Accounts:

Adelyn Hosehbo: "I did not slap my mum okay (but I did stole from her)! "

 This girl seriously needs some professional counseling and real friends who would give her proper advices and guidance in life than steal from her when the opportunity arises.

 Yes, she is bad, but her friends are worse.

Mr Seng Han Thong vs SMRT: Who Should We Believe?

Seng Han Thong, MP at Ang Mo Kio GRC who speaks good English

A statement by Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong  on the SMRT breakdown fiasco has sparked an online furore. Via TheOnlineCitizen and AsiaOne.com:

“I noticed that the PR (SMRT public relations officer) mentioned that some of the (SMRT) staff, because they are Malay, they are Indian, they can’t converse in English well enough, so that also deters them, but I think we accept broken English.” Said Seng Han Thong on TV.

“At no point did Mr Goh highlight any particular race in his remarks.” Said a SMRT Spokesperson.

Minister of State for Community Development Youth and Sports Madam Halimah Yacob has this to say about the whole incident:

“Several friends have raised their concerns over MP Seng Han Thong’s remarks. I am also disturbed by the remarks which are inappropriate and unfair even though he may be repeating what someone else said. Having worked in the labour movement for 33 years before taking up my present post, I am reminded of how employers in the past sometimes try to pin the blame on the lowest elvel workers as a way of… deflecting responsibilty from the management whenever a major problem occurs. Effective communication as we all know requires a properly thought out strategy and plan, putting a system in place, training of employees and testing whether the plan works, among others. It is not right to pin the blame on workers and, what is worse, Malay and Indian workers for the purported lack of English proficiency…”

Liar liar, pants on fire.

Who lied?

Or are both SMRT and Seng Han Thong just extremely  bad at communicating and listening to others?

Here’s the Blog.TV segment which got Seng Han Thong into hot soup:

Here’s a spoof on the whole saga by Mr Brown pretending to be Seng Han Thong:

On a side note, do Singaporeans realise that MPs in Ang Mo Kio GRC like Seng Han Thong and Lee Bee Wah (now transferred to Nee Soon GRC) enjoy “免死金牌” (immunity) status? There is no way we can vote them out no matter how badly they screw up as it would mean voting out our beloved Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong too.