Last Saturday, a reader drove her second hand car into Malaysia, but was stopped by Malaysian police just before the last checkpoint heading towards the Singapore side of the causeway. She was puzzled and scared as she did not know what they stopped her for - as far as she knew, she had not done anything wrong and she had no outstanding offences in Malaysia. Malaysian police impounded her vehicle, and finally told her that she had to settle 6 outstanding fines attributed to this vehicle in the years between 2004 and 2007. These fines were incurred by the vehicle's previous owner!
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