{"id":1152,"date":"2007-03-24T22:35:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:10:13","slug":"1148-of-literally-whistle-blower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"[1148] Of literally, whistle-blower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little bit confused, perhaps, hilariously confused for awhile, after reading a report today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR: If everyone carries a whistle and blows it when a crime occurs, the nation will be a safer place.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) believes, and so it unveiled the &#8220;safety whistle&#8221; campaign at its 14th AGM on Saturday as a crime prevention method for the people.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/3\/24\/nation\/20070324170809&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><em>MCPF kicks off whistle-blowing campaign<\/em><\/a>. The Star. March 24 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A little bit too literal, if you ask me. When I read the term &#8220;<em>whistle-blowing<\/em>&#8220;, I was thinking of a different kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whistleblower\" target=\"_blank\">whistleblower<\/a>. Anyway, further in the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When, for example, burglar breaks into a house, the houseowner or anyone who witnesses the crime can immediately call for help and attention by blowing his whistle and, hopefully, that will scare the burglars away,&#8221; said MCPF executive council member Datuk Robert Phang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah folks. If you happen to stumble into a burglar in your house in the middle of the night, take a whistle and blow it as hard as possible. Hopefully, the burglars would run away, fearing the all powerful shrieking whistle!<\/p>\n<p>Prreeettt! Prreeettt! Prreeettt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little bit confused, perhaps, hilariously confused for awhile, after reading a report today: KUALA LUMPUR: If everyone carries a whistle and blows it when a crime occurs, the nation will be a safer place. This is what the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) believes, and so it unveiled the &#8220;safety whistle&#8221; campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-society","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}