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  • Renter Uncontactable, Owner Of BMW Who Put Up Car For Rent On Carousell In ICU

    Renter Uncontactable, Owner Of BMW Who Put Up Car For Rent On Carousell In ICU

    Offering his car for rent on online marketplace Carousell landed a man in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), after he was so stressed out that he suffered a heart attack.

    The man had rented out his BMW for a month at $2,300 and the renter disappeared with the car. Two weeks after the $35,000 car was due to be returned, he was still uncontactable.

    Car jockey Taufiq Hidayat, 28, related his father’s experience to The New Paper. His father did not want to be named.

    “My father was so worried sick about his car that he suffered a heart attack last Saturday at about 3am and had to be warded in the ICU,” said Mr Taufiq.

    When told about the laws governing car rentals, Mr Taufiq said: “I’m sure if my father was aware of the regulations, he wouldn’t have rented out his car.”

    The Oct 15 deal, made through Carousell, was between Mr Taufiq’s father and a man who called himself Thomas.

    “The next day, Thomas came with a man called Muthu, who was in his mid-50s. Thomas introduced Muthu as his uncle,” said Mr Taufiq.

    “He told my father that Muthu was the one who wanted to rent the car.”

    Mr Taufiq’s father then took a picture of Muthu’s identity card and made him sign a handwritten contract. The $2,300 was paid in full.

    That was the last time Mr Taufiq’s father saw his car.

    On Nov 15, the day that the car was supposed to be returned, Thomas was uncontactable.

    “My father first thought that Thomas was busy, so he just let it slide and sent him another reminder,” said Mr Taufiq.

    Two days passed but there was still no news from Thomas.

    “When we called him, we could hear the dial tone but no one answered the call,” added Mr Taufiq.

    “Even when we sent him a message on Whatsapp, we saw the blue ticks (an indication that the message was read) but there wasn’t any reply.”

    Mr Taufiq then went to Muthu’s house to demand for the car.

    “When Muthu saw me, he seemed quite afraid,” he said.

    Muthu told him Thomas’ real name and admitted that they were not related. They weren’t even close friends, he claimed.

    Mr Taufiq made a police report that day.

    Over the past month, he also found out from summonses that the car had been cited for traffic offences, including speeding and beating a red light. There were over 20 fines, totalling $1,000.

    SIMILAR EXPERIENCE

    On Nov 27, Mr Taufiq posted on Facebook everything that happened. His post received more than 490 shares and caught the eye of Mr Shahrukh, who runs a car rental company.

    Four months ago, Mr Shahrukh, 22, had a terrible experience when he leased a Nissan Presage to a man with the same name.

    The man had said he wanted to rent the car for a week but after taking the car for a four-hour ride, he demanded a refund “because he didn’t like the car”.

    Mr Shahrukh did not give him any money back.

    In October, there was also a complaint against the same man on online classified site Gumtree.

    A Gumtree member with the username Mouzzammil made a fraud alert alleging that he had been cheated by the man.

    The man had taken Mouzzammil’s car for a one-day rental and abandoned it two days later, leaving the keys on one of the front tyres. Mouzzammil claimed the man texted him the location of the car.

    “Fuel nearly empty, and scammed of taxi fares and rent for a day,” he wrote, referring to theMONEY he spent taking a taxi to the car.

    Police investigations are ongoing.

    Laws for car rentals

    According to the Land Transport Authority website, private car owners are allowed to rent out their cars only if they fulfil two main requirements:

    • The car owner has to ensure adequateINSURANCE coverage for the period of rental.
    • Private cars can be rented out only from 7pm on Friday to 7am of the following Monday and from 7pm on the eve of public holidays to 7am on the firstWORKING DAY following the public holiday.

    Lawyer Lawrence Lang said that many car owners are reluctant toPAY for car rental insurance because of its high premium.

    “The main stumbling block of the scheme is theINSURANCE COVERAGE. OwnersPAY insurance according to the risk of claiming it,” said the insurance and construction litigation lawyer.

    “So when you pay for car rental insurance, you are assuming that the person who rents the car is at high risk, hence the high premium.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Teenager Dies From Heart Attack Caused By Constipation

    Teenager Dies From Heart Attack Caused By Constipation

    A teenager died from a heart attack caused by constipation – after going eight weeks without a bowel movement, an inquest heard.

    Emily Titterington, 16, had a phobia of using the loo and would frequently withhold her stools for up to two months.

    Eventually her bowel grew so large it compressed her chest cavity and caused the displacement of other organs.

    The inquest heard how her life could have been saved with appropriate treatment but she had refused to be medically examined.

    Home Office pathologist Dr Amanda Jeffery said her symptoms were in keeping with a condition known as “stool withholding”, which is more frequent in children.

    A post-mortem examination revealed that Emily had a “massive extension of the large bowel”.

    Asked by Coroner Dr Emma Carlyon to describe the severity of the condition, Dr Jeffery said: “It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before – it was dramatic.”

    The inquest in Truro, Cornwall, heard how Emily, who had mild autism, suffered with bowel problems for most of her life but doctors had been unable to pinpoint the cause.

    Her GP Dr Alistair James said that, in the period leading up to her death, Emily’s mother Geraldine, 59, had battled in vain to persuade her to be medically examined.

    Dr James told the coroner that he had prescribed laxatives but had not examined Emily’s abdomen.

    “Had I done so, we would be having a different conversation,” he said. “Her death could have been avoided with the right treatment at the right point.”

    Emily collapsed at her home in St Austell on February 8, 2013. Paramedics desperately tried to revive her but she was later pronounced dead in hospital.

    Paramedic Lee Taylor attended the family’s home twice on the night of her death.

    On the first occasion he described Emily as “looking pale” and said she had complained of pain between her shoulder blades.

    However, she refused to go to hospital and had been reluctant to be examined.

    He said she wore a “loose nightie” and he did not notice any abdominal swelling.

    Mr Taylor and his colleague, student paramedic Lisa Marie Edwards, were called back just after 4am.

    He said: “We were allocated to an emergency at the house we’d just left.

    “When we arrived her father James was outside shouting at us to help, saying something had gone badly wrong.”

    Inside they found Emily’s mother leaning over her daughter, who was lying in the doorway of the bathroom.

    Mr Taylor said: “As she moved away I could see that her abdomen was grossly extended.

    “Her lower ribs had been pushed out further than her pubic bone – I was shocked.”

    Emily’s sister Hannah Herbert, 29, last saw her four weeks prior to her death.

    Her mother told her Emily had not been to the toilet for “six to eight weeks” and this was “routine”, the inquest heard.

    Hannah told the inquest she did not feel that Emily was in a “healthy, safe environment” and had previously contacted social services with her concerns.

    But GP Dr James said he found “no evidence” of safeguarding issues.

    In a statement read out to the court, Emily’s brother-in-law, Brian Herbert, said the family had tried a number of different remedies for her bowel condition.

    They included homeopathic pills, and a technique known as Body Talk, which involved so-called “distance healing”.

    The three-day inquest is expected to conclude on Wednesday.

     

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

  • Suicide and Heart Attack Main Causes Of Deaths Of Adults In Singapore

    Suicide and Heart Attack Main Causes Of Deaths Of Adults In Singapore

    Suicide and heart attack were the top causes of deaths among 15- to 49-year-olds here last year, accounting for 337 lives, while the top killer for those aged 70 and older was pneumonia.

    These figures, which did not go into greater detail, come from a global study published in The Lancet medical journal yesterday comparing causes of death and burden of disease in 188 countries between 1990 and last year.

    In that period, global life expectancy went up from 65.3 years to 71.5 years – though people in Singapore fared far better with women living an average of 84 years and men 79.7 years.

    The study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with hundreds of collaborators from around the world led by Professor Christopher Murray of the University of Washington.

    Prof Murray said collective action against potentially deadly infectious diseases such as diarrhoea, measles, tuberculosis, HIV and malaria has had a huge impact in reducing deaths.

    But he added that some major chronic diseases have been neglected and are becoming increasing threats to life, particularly drug disorders, liver cirrhosis, diabetes and kidney disease.

    In Singapore, deaths from chronic kidney disease and pancreatic cancer tripled between 1990 and last year. Pneumonia deaths also increased by 56 per cent.

    Associate Professor Reshma Merchant, who heads general medicine at National University Hospital, said pneumonia in the elderly is often due to dementia or frailty that causes difficulty in swallowing. She said: “Swallowing problems can have devastating health implications, including dehydration, malnutrition and pneumonia which affects quality of life and increases caregiver burden.”

    Deaths from congenital problems and asthma fell by 70 per cent and 39 per cent respectively.

    The study noted gender differences with far more men in Singapore dying from lung cancer and women from stroke. Last year, 953 men and 550 women died of lung cancer; and 1,449 women and 1,044 men from stroke.

    Dr Ross Soo, a senior cancer consultant at the National University Cancer Institute, said many studies show women with lung cancer do better than men – regardless of whether they have radiation or chemotherapy. He added: “The reasons for the gender differences are very complex and are not well understood.”

    At a global level, standardised for age, deaths from some cancers have fallen since 1990: lung by 9 per cent, breast by 18 per cent and leukaemia by 20 per cent. Deaths from heart disease and strokes have fallen by over 20 per cent.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com