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SINGAPORE: He took his friend's car – by force – and drove it for more than a month. Now David Tay Chin Heng, 36, will be caned and jailed for not knowing how to accept "no" for an answer.
Tay had wanted to borrow the Honda Fit on March 4 this year, but his friend refused, saying he needed it for work.
The odd-job labourer continued his attempts to persuade his friend, but when the latter would not budge, Tay pulled out a metal rod from his pouch and warned his friend not to "make him go crazy".
When his friend tried to drive out of the car park at Kaki Bukit Place, Tay snatched the key out of the ignition. Out of fear, his friend surrendered the vehicle to him and made a police report the next day.
The car was found more than a month later, abandoned in Bencoolen Street. The police found a metal rod, a baseball bat and a Swiss Army knife in the vehicle.
On Monday, Tay was jailed three years and a month, and ordered to be caned 12 times for robbery and driving without a valid licence and insurance. He will also be disqualified from driving for four years after his release.
- TODAY/so
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