Tropical Detective

Rounding up the usual suspects, in Southeast Asia. Crime news that's ironic, not grim.

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I was locked out of @hellochris but got back in.

I had an extra Twitter account, so I will put it to use here and post Southeast Asian focused crime stories.

So expect to read about law and order, cops and robbers, and crime and punishment, local style.

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🇮🇩 The wild elephant captured in Kampung Padang Tapong was apparently hungry, and spent his three days in the village feasting on banana, jackfruit, and rubber trees.
https://t.co/7GZ0BjUH3S

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🇮🇩 Hin's Hotel, on a Mangga Besar side street, was where RCD met her demise. Her breast implants were topped off by a waria who lacked a medical license.
https://t.co/PdpO3IeEeO

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🇮🇩 Eight santri–all children–were taking an afternoon nap when a fire broke out at the Miftakhul Khoirot Islamic Boarding School in Karawang. They did not survive.
https://t.co/BskXcgb4qH

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🇮🇩 A speedboat foundered in heavy surf off Tanjung Burung, Southeast Maluku. Twenty-five people went into the water, 19 came out, and the sea took the rest.
https://t.co/XWxkpcABHA

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🇱🇦 The Public Security Ministry in Laos says that note about combat readiness should not have been released, and anyway was only about staffing for the upcoming new year.
https://t.co/pQsoDbC6eT

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🇸🇬 The residents of Block 752 Yishun Street 72 want to know who burned and poisoned that poor family of chicks who used to play in the void deck.
https://t.co/fWA6RkvghN

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🇰🇭 In Koas Kralor, a cow wandered into a field, a cowherd followed, and both were killed when the former stepped on a landmine.
https://t.co/ZZRxWDPRAt

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🇰🇭 The chief monk of Chey Udom Chongkal Pagoda is chuffed: the pottery shards he's been collecting were tested. They're thousands of years old, say the scientists.
https://t.co/OTaN6RNbUa

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🇸🇬 Prisoners who are caned need not thank those wielding the rattan, says Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister.
https://t.co/ikfXRMO2y7

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🇮🇩 After six years and prompted by a dream, Anang went to visit his adoptive father–a Spaniard–in Nusa Dua, only to find the latter's skeleton, completely desiccated.
https://t.co/8NbZv7zvRE

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🇲🇾 For three minutes on Mount Kinablu, which towers 4,000 meters over the heart of Borneo, there was snow.
https://t.co/s4lv61UVI1

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🇹🇱 Half the Burger King restaurants in Timor Leste have been shuttered, thanks to covid. The other two are doing fine.
https://t.co/2haPv3rdzJ

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🇮🇩 Forty-seven passengers alighted so their bus could make it up the hill in Yogyakarta. Thirteen died on the way down, when their driver lost control. (icymi)
https://t.co/dRWeUSGWnx

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🇲🇲 Three people who waiting for covid shots wound up in hospital instead. Someone tossed a bomb into the Ward No. 1 Administrative Office in Mayangon. (icymi)
https://t.co/JAUrak0iof

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🇮🇩 In preparing to rob a home in Banyuasin, a thief– guided by a dark-arts dukun–took a flower bath (power boost) and stripped to his underwear (invisibility). Didn't work. Arrested. https://t.co/Zfxcgr2CJf

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🇻🇳🇹🇼 Gone in 60 Seconds, in Ha Tinhorns. Chang You Jui for stealing pickup trucks and pawning them for a 100 million dong. https://t.co/1dx0bhO03O

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🇮🇩 A bra and a skeleton, and nothing else, was found in an irrigation ditch in Bogor, West Java. https://t.co/iAXp58gdeZ

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🇸🇬 Diagnosed with COVID-19, Alagu, a Sri Lankan in Sinagpore, recorded two farewell videos and leapt to his death, from the seventh floor of Kpp Teck Puat Hospital. https://t.co/voEv5I4oLW

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🇹🇭 Sirithon, while hunting for plastic bottles in the Nongprue Municipality dump, came across the body of an abandoned newborn instead. https://t.co/NoKvXLbKYg

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🇮🇩 Carrying airsoft pistols and magic amulets, a gang of seven robbers was beaten back by a Mr. Ibrahem and his machete, during a home invasion in Jambi. https://t.co/VPnf51QqaE