Singapore — As far as netizens were concerned, a female bus passenger had three strikes against her.
First strike: She was with a group that had lowered their masks to eat ice cream while riding on the bus.
Second strike: Her mask was completely down and was merely covering her chin.
Third strike: She behaved very rudely toward the bus captain, shouting at one point, “Shut up la you, never talk to you la! Drive carefully, can or not?”
The video of the woman and her companions on a bus, posted on the website and Facebook pages of crowdsourced news site Stomp may have only lasted 17 seconds, but it was enough to earn netizens’ condemnation.
The person who sent the video to Stomp wrote that the incident occurred on Feb 1, at around 9:35 pm aboard bus service 72 from Tampines Interchange.
“They started verbally abusing the driver, removing their masks to talk loudly while eating their ice cream,” he told Stomp. “They let their toddler press the stop button repeatedly and caused an unnecessary stop at the first bus stop.
And when the driver “nicely” asked them to stop, “they hurled abusive words at him and even said the male driver was having menses,” the sender told Stomp.
One of the woman’s companions, a male, saw that they were being filmed. That’s when another woman pointed and said “Hypocrite take video.”
The sender said that the group told him off for taking the video.
“They are such a public nuisance. As I had to alight at the second stop, I did not have time to tell them to stop being a nuisance. I hope the bus driver is alright,” he added.
Netizens found themselves solidly on the side of the bus captain and the man who took the video.
Several commenters called for penalties to be given to the woman and her companions.
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