Elderly man fined S$3,000 for placing garbage bags from his kitchen to his neighbour's air conditioning windowsill

SINGAPORE: An 88-year-old man was fined S$3,000 for harassing his neighbour by using a stick to drop rubbish bags from his kitchen window onto the neighbour’s air-con ledge 24 times.

According to investigations, the suspect resided on the 11th floor of an HDB block along Margaret Drive. Due to an ongoing feud with the neighbour living directly above him, he repeatedly used a long stick to deposit the plastic bags filled with rubbish from his kitchen window onto the air-conditioning ledge.

When reporters visited the HDB block, residents revealed that the affected neighbour had moved out of the unit more than a month earlier, and the flat was currently undergoing renovation. Several residents also mentioned that they had previously seen the old man knocking persistently on the unit’s door.