78-year-old Chua Kim Seng, a busker who was purportedly robbed by a man who took money from his tip jar and fled the scene, said that the man had approached him and asked him for money to eat.
Chua, known affectionately to the public as Uncle Chua, spoke to Shin Min Daily News and said that at the time of the incident on 7 March, the man had approached him and asked him for money to eat.
The man told Uncle Chua that he needed $2, and reached into Chua’s tip jar of money to take the money, before walking away.
Chua said that he decided against going after the man and stopping him because it was just a small amount of money.
An elderly woman who passed by at the time, tried to give chase to the man but it’s unclear if she managed to catch up with him in the end or not.
Chua said that he told the passerby what had happened but told her that it was not a big deal, and the latter then told him to lodge a police report but he decided not to do so.
He told SMDN that it was not the first time he had encountered the man, who was described to be in his 20s.
He said that the man usually shows up and asks him for $2 to buy food, but Chua doesn’t mind giving the man money.