S’pore iPhone Owner Puts Up Talisman to ‘Curse’ Thief After Losing Phone

You’ve probably threatened someone before for a multitude of reasons. Maybe they took your favourite K-Pop CD without your permission. Maybe they keep calling you by a nickname that you don’t like and you want them to stop. Maybe they stole the last piece of sotong from your Hokkien mee.

All reasonable, really.

Someone in Singapore, however, is willing to go the extra mile when threatening someone: applying actual curses on them.

Damn, that’s cold.

Curses!

A user from Facebook group Complaint Singapore posted a picture on Monday (25 Nov), one which they took from what appeared to be a message seen at a lift lobby.

The message was written in English and Chinese and was accompanied by a black and white image of a Taoist fulu talisman.

“Just saw this outside the lift. Will this be effective ? 🤔” asked Happy Ooi Delaoma, a member of Complaint Singapore.

The picture posted implied that the writer in question had lost an iPhone, (purple, with a pink iPhone case) and it had been picked up by someone with no intent of returning it to the original owner.

“For the person who pick up my purple colour iPhone with a light pink phone case, please return my phone within one week,” said the notice, adding that the alleged perpetrator could either call the number shown on the screen of the iPhone locked in Lost Mode (that’s a thing? I’m an Android user, I’m not sure) or report the phone to any police station across the island.

“I’ll reward you after you return (the phone), otherwise you will be cursed your whole life by the charm,” the notice continued. “I’ll destroy the curse charm after you return (the iPhone).”

Damn, and this has to be emphasised again, that’s cold.

Wah, like that also can? 

Comments from the original poster have pinpointed the location of the notice somewhere in the East.

Commenters were amused by the Facebook message, though many also questioned the effectiveness of the fulu talisman on the notice as

1) it was a jpeg on a piece of people and not, say, a separate charm pasted on the paper

2) the notice was printed in black and white

3) the charm was not at it’s full size and colour and

4) the charm was, according to some users, not written out completely, and not centralised. Thus, any curse would thus be ineffective.

This is how a fulu should look like.

(This has confirmed to me that some of y’all really do have very specific life experiences that you’ll know how Taoist fulu charms work.)

Highlights of the comment page include the following:

“You never try, you will never know.” (Bravo, optimistic commenter, something we need in this day and age.)

“+1 for the effort and creativeness”, (Creative use of comment, acknowledges that it is a creative threat.)

The original poster who uploaded the picture did not think that the notice would work:

“I saw this notice yesterday next to the lift,” said the OP in Chinese. “Halo, Little Miss Poster, you did not hang the Apple device by your neck or perhaps the person who stole your device knows who you are. If you want your curse to work, you can’t print it.”