An open letter to our acid bottle thrower(s)
Dear Sir/Madam,
As it turns out our police still don’t have a clue who you are and how you are capable of such crimes, I felt the need to address you via this suitable medium. With the sixth attack in 13 months and having injured more than 100 people, you’re becoming quite the cult villain. Maybe one day movies will be made about you and your disturbed mind.
After all the chaos and the HK$ 1.7 million in public funds used to install a digital surveillance camera system in Mong Kok and other commercial areas, here’s some kudos for not getting caught yet. However, if you happen to read this, I would like to suggest a little variation in your approach. You see, by throwing the same thing over and over again you create a traceable pattern. Not long from now, we might be required to show our ID when buying sewage and toilet cleanser and that would ruin things for you. Although you might have a big supply for now, but if not, well.. perhaps you could learn a trick or two from your notorious public housing peers, as you’re certainly not the only one in this town who enjoys throwing stuff down from high altitudes.
Our government has so far invested about HK$ 2 million in CCTV cameras (total no. of 116) around public housing buildings because they got a little annoyed with all the shit that was thrown out of windows. Nevertheless, it still continues and actually most of the time, the residents are only fined and released shortly after. To provide you with inspiration, here’s a list of thrown objects since September 2008, in order of increasing size:
- Phlegm
- Water bombs
– Sanitary napkins (used)
- Orange skins
- Scissors
- 80 pieces of a Mahjong set
- Coke bottles
- Beer cans
- Bricks
- Dead baby
- 15 cm long wooden board
- Flower pot (with flower)
- Rice cooker
- Buddha statue
- Window pane
- Bamboo stick
- Floor mop
- Sledgehammer
- 2 year old child
- 27″ TV
- 40 pound trash bin
- Fridge
Good luck embarrassing our police force for a bit longer.
HH




