A lone banana became one of the most valuable things ever in the country when a man traded away more than three years of his life for it.
What was meant to be a month’s stint in prison turned into a a whole lot more jail time (and caning as well) for 38-year-old Muhammad Fazil Salleh, who was really, really mad that a fellow inmate took an extra banana at lunch.
The New Paper reports that Fazil got into a verbal dispute with 33-year-old Puspanathan Ramachandran during lunchtime at Admiralty West Prison last April. In a burst of anger, Fazil slapped Puspanathan, kneeing him in the chest and the face, even when the latter had already fallen down.
The victim was left with multiple fractures on his jaw, nasal bone and left eye socket, as well as damage to his teeth. All because he took an extra banana.
Puspanathan received surgery at Changi General Hospital and was discharged six days later, being put on hospitalization leave for nearly two months. Once, again, we have to remind you that this is all because of a banana.
Fazil had been serving his one-month jail sentence for stealing shaving blades from a supermarket last September while under remission order. Now convicted for the prison attack, he was sentenced to three years in jail, 59 days in enhanced imprisonment and six strokes of the cane.
We hope the banana was worth it.
