Twins

Have you ever wondered how would it be if you were a twin? Why some are born twins, triplets or even quadruplets? No one can really tell why and from what I know, it is all destined by God. Nonetheless, we human beings are of course known for our curiousity.

So, the curious me started googling about twins and I pondered upon a somewhat interesting + bizarre news. It goes..

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Malaysian twins spared death row

Malaysian identical twin brothers have escaped hanging for drug trafficking as a court failed to decide which brother was the criminal, and cleared both.

A judge in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, said the case was unique and she could not send the wrong person to his death.

In 2003 police arrested one brother found driving drugs to a house. The second twin arrived soon afterwards and was also arrested.

Neither officers nor a DNA test could identify which twin owned the drugs.

Sathis and Sabarish Raj, 27, cried in court when they heard the judge say that the prosecution had failed to prove which twin had been arrested first with a car containing 166kg of cannabis and almost 2kg of raw opium.

According to the New Straits Times, the judge told the court: "I can't be calling the wrong twin to enter his defence. I can't be sending the wrong person to the gallows."

Execution is mandatory for convicted drugs traffickers in Malaysia.

Taken from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7876221.stm

WTF!?

Twins were exempted from prosecution because the judge couldn't identify which one was the one doing the crime. And to make the case easy and simple (typical Malaysian, eh? =P), they let both of them gets off scot free. WTF! This is one of da most bizarre news I've ever seen to date. Period.

Ridiculous or whatever you call it, but I was honestly left in disbelief when I saw the news. And what's "surprising" is that, it is actually happening in our very own Malaysia itself. Shows how vulnerable our laws can be exploited nowadays. Loopholes everywhere and I bet there's more than what we've seen so far. =\

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*yawns*

Alright, my eyes couldn't take it no more.. Signing off then..