SIA pilot charged with making prank calls

[Tim]

text credit (c) www.straitstimes.com

.." A SINGAPORE Airlines pilot was charged on Tuesday with making four prank calls to three fastfood outlets for food to be delivered to a colleague.

Looi Kang San, 53, who has been suspended from duty, is said to have called twice on Nov 11 last year to Canadian Pizza's delivery hotline at 6.30pm and McDonald's hotline at 6.58pm - for food to be delivered to Mr Steven Cameron Gillis, 57.

He is also accused of making similar calls the next day at 9.50pm to Kentucky Fried Chicken's hotline and 10.21pm to Canadian Pizza for food to be delivered to Mr Gillis's house.

All the calls were allegedly made from a flat at Lorong Chuan.

Looi was supposed to have been charged last week but fell ill.

His lawyer, Mr Irving Choh, tendered a medical report on his client to supplement the medical certificate given a week ago.

Looi is out on $8,000 bail.

A pre-trial conference will be held on Oct 16.

If convicted under the Telecommunications Act, he can be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for up to three years, or both, on each charge.

[SQviper]

Talk about "nothing better than to do" I can't believe a senior? 53 y.o pilot would do such things. There must be something to it, than just pranking colleagues... Right ?

[Greatfox]

heh, must've been a slow news day at the Straits Times

[SQ LPP]

heh, must've been a slow news day at the Straits Times

It is not about a slow news day IMHO. It was in the paper in Vancouver as well. Mr. Gillis lives in Vancouver according to the paper.

[B-HQC]

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Looi is out on $8,000 bail.

A pre-trial conference will be held on Oct 16.

If convicted under the Telecommunications Act, he can be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for up to three years, or both, on each charge. [/I]

Only in Singapore!

[up and away]

If these laws would be applied in Germany, Vodafone Germany would be operated from jail. They call their customers who have bought a product that is entirely designed for students between 9am and 11am to ask them if they think their customer service is alright

[PPL]

Nov 19, 2007
Ex-SIA pilot fined $4,000 for making false delivery calls
By ELENA CHONG
SINGAPORE - A FORMER Singapore Airlines pilot was fined a total of $4,000 on Monday for making false
food delivery orders to his colleague's home.
Looi Kang San, 53, pleaded guilty to two counts of giving false messages to the Canadian Pizza and
McDonald delivery hotlines on Nov 11 last year to order food to be sent to the home of Mr Steven Cameron
Gillis, 57.
Mr Gillis made a police report on Nov 10 that he had received nuisance calls and messages on his mobile
phone. He suspected Looi to be behind these calls as he had testified against him in a complaint of
misconduct with the airline.
On Nov 11, Mr Gillis and his wife were at home when they were informed by the security guard that there
was a delivery from Canadian Pizza waiting for them but they said they had not made any such order.
About five minutes later, the couple were again told that there was a delivery from McDonald's restaurant.
Mrs Gillis again told the delivery man to leave as they had not ordered anything.
Investigation showed that on both occasions, Looi had called the hotlines of the two restaurants to order
food to be delivered to Mr Gillis' home in Bayshore Road on his mobile phone.
Two other similar charges were taken into consideration.
Pleading for a fine, Looi's lawyer Irving Choh told District Judge Eddy Tham that his client became upset
with Captain Gillis after they had argued over Looi's attire on a flight together.
He said Looi committed the offences on the spur of the moment as he was suffering from acute emotional
stress due to family and financial problems.
Looi, who had been flying for more than 20 years, was very remorseful over what he had done.
He was the sole breadwinner of his family, and has a severely autistic younger son, said the lawyer.
The loss of his job last month was a great blow to him and his family, counsel added.
Looi could have been fined up to $10,000 or jailed for up to three years, or both, on each of the charges.

[up and away]

Tough laws!

[kevino]

Embarrassing. It started over an argument. Good thing it didn't escalate to something worse.