Advertisement

Singapore flags transported in a garbage bin?

Flags spotted in a mobile garbage bin. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Leong)
Flags spotted in a mobile garbage bin. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Leong)

An estate cleaner planting Singapore flags along Bukit Merah Central was spotted Wednesday evening using what seemed to be a garbage bin in which to keep the country's national symbols.

Netizen Jeffery Leong, who saw the cleaner and took a photograph, said in a Facebook post that the flags were being transported in a dirty mobile garbage bin.

"This is definitely not the right way!" said Leong.

"The person-in-charge who ask(ed) him to do it obviously did not proper(ly) advise and supervise how our national flags should be treated!" Leong said.

According to the Singapore Arms and Flag and National Anthem Act, it is decreed that no person shall treat the Flag with disrespect.

One of the flags was spotted on the grass in front of the mobile garbage truck. This is also against the law as the National Flag should not touch the floor or ground.

When Yahoo! Singapore contacted the Tanjong Pagar Town Council, a spokesperson Shirley Aloysius mentioned that "the Bukit Merah Merchants Association hired a contractor to put up the national day flags within the town to celebrate National Day".

"The flags were kept in a clean plastic bulk container," said Aloysius.