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December 07, 2004

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In Singapore people are dying to gamble:

CRIMINAL syndicates in Singapore are using funeral wakes as cover for mobile casinos by paying off grieving families to allow strangers to gamble near their loved ones' corpses, a report said.

The Straits Times said the syndicates have found a loophole under which card games are permitted at wakes, usually held for several days, to keep people occupied while paying respects to the dead and meeting friends and relatives.

Spoil-sport Singaporean police will note tolerate excessive "noise pollution" nor "gambling" at wakes, but will allow "games of chance for social interaction".

In a completely unrelated report Singapore has reported a massive rise in the number of year-long wakes. When asked to comment one mourner said, "We really, really miss...ummm...what's his name again? Anyway it's goign to take us a long time to deal with this. Ha. Get it? Deal with it? Blackjack!"

 posted by Simon on 12.07.04 at 09:07 AM in the




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Over Their Dead Bodies
Excerpt: Try to legislate against a practice people enjoy enough and it's a dead certainty that someone will find a loophole to make it happen, even if, in this case, an unusually macabre one.CRIMINAL syndicates in Singapore are using funeral wakes
Weblog: Foreign Dispatches
Tracked: December 10, 2004 09:19 AM


Comments:

Loved the pun! Good one.

 posted by: RP on 12.08.04 at 12:30 AM [permalink]




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