Re: PRC Woman Caught Peeing in Lift in Penang
No law against turning lift into toilet
Thursday, Oct 25, 2012
GEORGE TOWN - Culprits caught answering the call of nature in lifts here may keep on getting away with their act until the state government drafts a specific legislation.
State Town and Country Planning, Housing and Arts Committee chairman Wong Hon Wai said there was no specific legislation to penalise such culprits.
"I will take up the matter with the relevant departments to study if there are any ways to penalise those caught urinating in lifts.
"I will also need to consult the state legal adviser on whether there is any law to penalise these people," he said yesterday.
Wong was commenting on a news report which highlighted a young woman caught on CCTV urinating inside an elevator.
The recording shows the woman, believed to be in her 20s, answering the call of nature at 6.07am on Oct 10 at Sri Saujana flat in Macallum Street.
Rifle Range Community Development and Security Committee chairman Loh Eng Kim said that before the installation of CCTVs inside the lifts of six blocks of flats out of nine, it was a norm for residents to urinate and pass motion inside the lifts.
"We caught several residents urinating into the drains along the ground floor corridor and we warned them not to do so.
"The reason they gave us was that they could not hold it any longer," he said.
Loh said there were 98 CCTVs installed in the low-cost flats of Rifle Range in Penang and 18 inside the elevators.
Kebun Bunga assemblyman Jason Ong's special assistant Enson Neoh said besides urinating, residents were also caught on CCTVs for littering.
"We do not want residents and people to be afraid of CCTVs.
"We want them to understand that this is their home and they should take care of their own property and not tarnish the image of Rifle Range," he said.