A video was recently uploaded on the Instagram page sgfollowsall which shows a tubby man getting beaten by another man as he allegedly told the other man that he was affiliated with a gang.
The tubby man who was shirtless was seen running away from the aggressor and he was seen receiving punches to his face as he ran for dear life. The incident was believed to have happened at Rivervale Street.
Clement Joshua Tan Teck Kim, 48, pleaded guilty yesterday (23 April) to causing public nuisance when he pressed the emergency stop button at an MRT station to retrieve his phone on the MRT tracks.
He also punched a security officer who tried to stop him from fleeing the station.
On 29 February, at about 11am, last year, Tan accidentally dropped his phone onto the tracks as he was boarding the train.
He then sought help from the SMRT staff, when the station manager told him that he could only retrieve the phone the next day because train services cannot be disrupted.
Tan however, insisted the services be stopped, which resulted in the manager calling the police, who got Tan to leave the station.
He then returned to Buona Vista MRT station that same day, at around 3.50pm, telling the staff that he needed his phone urgently as his baby had a fever and he needed to speak to his girlfriend.
He was then again told that his situation was not an emergency, to which Tan then pressed the emergency stop button.
The assistant station manager tried to stop him but Tan pushed him away.
Tan then punched a security officer who tried to stop him from fleeing the station, the officer suffered minor injuries on his face.
Tan was then arrested later that day.
Tan told the court that he was sorry for causing hurt and inconvenience to the people involved.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tay Zhi Jie said that Tan was diagnosed with Schizophrenia.
District Judge Kessler Soh asked for him to be assessed to see if his condition contributed to his offences.
In an excerpt from a book by MD Sharif Uddin, entitled Stranger To My World, The Covid Diary of a Bangladeshi Migrant Worker, the author shared his honest thoughts about being transported at the back of lorries.
Following the horrific accident a few days ago when migrant workers were flung out of a lorry after a collision with a tipper truck, which left 2 dead, he said that low-income migrant workers like themselves have just to accept that they must be transported in unsafe lorries in this modern city.
He asks how many more accidents must happen before lorries will not be used to carry migrant workers in Singapore.
He questions, how many of these accidents actually come to the attention of the “civilized” people of this society?
He shared that the sound of the crash of a lorry may not even reach their ears as they engage in their own activities.
He also wrote, don’t the rich in their brand new cars see the slaves in lorries when they stop at the same signal light?
Adding that can’t they come forward to stop the use of lorries to transport humans in this city?
Further adding that shouldn’t they draw the attention of the government to ensure basic safety for migrant worker? Of course they can.
Images and excerpts source: @wakeupsingapore on IG and MD Sharif Uddin