Singapore ― A man who objected to his neighbour smoking at home decided to retaliate by switching off his power supply.
The smoker’s niece, a Ms Pay, caught the neighbour switching off the flat’s electricity supply via the distribution board (DB board) and took to Facebook to name him and shame him.
She posted her exchange with the neighbour in Hokkien on Tuesday (Oct 5) writing: “What is wrong with people nowadays. Don’t you have things better to do, then (sic) switching off my uncle (sic) house electricity.”
The clip has since been taken down.
Ms Pay pointed out that this could be dangerous for her grandmother. What if the grandmother woke up in the middle of the night and could not switch on the light to see where she was going?
Ms Pay said the neighbour kept switching off their power supply because he objected to her uncle smoking in his own home. She claimed that this repeated switching off spoilt their electrical appliances and meant that her uncle had to buy replacements.
“If you can’t take it then please move out, you don’t stay in [a] bungalow. It’s HDB property you don’t have the right to switch it off no matter what”, she wrote.
The two-minute clip that Ms Pay uploaded showed an argument that took place in Hokkien, in the course of which she accused the neighbour of switching off the power supply to her uncle’s flat about 10 times within two or three months.
The neighbour is not seen in the video but he is heard saying that he switched off their electricity supply because her uncle kept on smoking.
The irate netizen then asked him if it was wrong to smoke inside one’s own home, and told him that the circuit breakers outside the flat were the property of the government.
Since the incident, the netizen’s uncle has lodged multiple police reports as he felt such behaviour was not only uncalled for but also dangerous.
It is not clear if Ms Pay lives with her uncle – TISG has reached out for comment and clarification. /TISG