January 19, 2010
The recent “hijacking” of a SBS Transit bus by a PRC family of
five caused a massive outroar in cyberspace with many netizens
lampooning their antics and police inaction against them.
The family was not allowed to carry their wheelchair to board
the bus due to safety reasons as it is not wheelchair accessible.
Though the bus captain had explained to them earlier, they refused
to bulge and went up the bus.
The bus captain had no choice but to park the bus alongside a
road and after consulting his superiors, transferred the other
passengers in the bus to another one.
The PRC family continued to protest vehemently on the bus for
five hours and even the police who arrived later was unable to do
anything about it. The fiasco was settled eventually when SBS paid
a cab to send them home.
The ugly saga made a mockery of the ruling party’s much
criticized “foreign talent” policy and its vain attempts to
“integrate” the new citizens, many of whom hail from mainland China
into Singapore society.
Netizens were up in arms when hearing the story with more than
50 comments posted on The Temasek Review in less than three hours
questioning why they were not arrested on the spot for unruly
behavior.
WTF wrote:
“If they were singaporeans, we can bet your last dollar that
the Singapore foolish force will have them arrested for disorderly
behaviour.”
Myanmar not welcomed added:
“Shouldn’t these people be hauled to the police station for
disorderly behaviour? If they were Singaporeans, they would have
been arrested immediately by the police. What the hell is wrong
with the police these days? Only know how to bully Singaporeans?
Police, shame on you!”
BiasedGovt was peeved with SBS for paying their
cab fare:
“Why paid the taxi fare for the PRC? If they are our
citizens, we are already locked up by police. Because PRC are
过江猛(凶)龙?”
Some netizens made use of this incident to criticize the ruling
party’s pro-foreigner policy which is destroying Singapore bit by
bit.
An anonymous poster said:
“Remember this type of behaviour has happened in MOE and the
next place it could happen is hospitals where someone urgently
needed tranfusion to save his/her life and a bunch of street tough
hooligans obstructing A & Es regardless of lives at risk and
the Police cowered in fearful submission. Do we really want to
integrate another 3 million of the same behaviour type into our
society? I would say seriously “No thanks” Any law-abiding
Singaporeans disagree?”
Wat? felt the ruling party will get a “taste”
of its own medicine one day:
“The MIW will regret the day they decide to import all these
people in thinking they will vote for them. these people are more
trouble to the MIW than MIW thinks. There you go …. “hard-driving”
ones for you. i would like to see more of them making a fuss of
everything and putting up protests and the whole she-bang. Good
times are coming!”
Over at SPH-owned Hardwarezone forum, the topic sparked an
active discussion among netizens on the aggressive behavior of
these “Ah Tiongs”, a derogatory Hokkien term for mainland
Chinese.
leaving_footsteps disagreed with their
antics:
“Can charge them for protesting without permit bo? Anyway, I
think they should have complained through other means lor. Causing
trouble for other passengers ish really too much. Aren’t they too
self-centred and selfish?”
Lao_funker thought they were ridiculous:
“This is a bit ridiculous. Many different buses of the same
number would have stopped at that bus stop over a period of 5 hrs.
I don’t really get it – what kind of moron would tussle with the
same bus driver for 5 hrs instead of choosing another bus with the
same number ?”
poolzz was obviously infuriated after reading
the article:
“After reading this thread, I hate Ah Tiongs more ! !
! Go back to ur country . Don’t come to Singapore
to take our jobs.”
The ruling party has resorted to mass importing foreigners from
overseas, especially China to boost Singapore’s declining birth
rates over the last few years.
Unfortunately, Singapore is not getting the best
talents from China who prefers to emigrate to the U.S., France,
Canada, Australia and South Korea and we end up, but uncouth
peasants from the poorer inland provinces instead.
With more and more of them flooding Singaporeans, it is little
wonder that MM Lee is concerned that native
Singaporeans, who are described by SM Goh as “sheep” will
be unable to compete with these more “hard-driving” and
“hard-striving” “lions”.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/01/19/netizens-slammed-prc-family-for-hijacking-sbs-bus-and-singapore-police-for-its-inaction/