Wheel chair on SBS saga.

Well this article is bit back dated but it is still hot with comments

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/what_bugs_me/307332/how_can_family_hijacks_bus_and_gets_free_taxi_ride.html

I shall not re-summerisethe story since it is already at the link.

Let's take a look at comments... there are many comments on anti PRC or anti foreigners. Singapore is multi racial and culture country and government is trying hard to promote racial harmony and yet there are many racist people exist. some of the content regarding this have been moved to here.

To me it is not about nationality it has to do with individual. There is no right or wrong but it is about how we see things. While many people point fault on the passenger family, few people do not see the other side. I am not saying the family is right or wrong. But I would like to point out about the other side of the coin. It take two hands to clap. As a bus captain, he is responsible for safety of passengers as well as the smooth journey of the passengers. I have never heard of wheel chair is refused on the bus. And government and public transport operators are promoting wheel chair friendly public transport. Though his concern about safety is noted, I do not see major issue about it. Wheel chair is steady as it is and have brakes. When leaned against seat on one side and a person standing and holding the other side, it is rather safe. If it is not safe shouldn't prams be banned from non wheel chair friendly buses as they are less stable than wheel chair, though lighter? So why does bus captain make life difficult for the family? Was is a discrimination against a nationality or against handicap/people with medical condition? As I have said above it takes two hands to clap. It is not entirely fault of the family that held up the bus for 5-6 horus. It is also bus captain who keep it going at the expense of other passengers who had to transferred to another bus and other bus captain on same route.


As said by stomper that falimy had wasted taxpayer's money by activating police and police should have taken action against family. Was it bus captain called police because he cannot resolve and try to threaten the family? Why didn't police take action? Because this is not a hijack case as stomper stated and this is dispute between merchant and consumer. They do not have a case.


Ironic isn't it? Singaporean always complain about consumer right and customer service and blame foreigner service provider but when the same thing happen with foreigners as customer, they switch side to service providers. Where are those people who always comment that "customer is always right"?

One more article.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/01/29/prc-aunty-made-a-din-on-mrt-after-being-called-cheap-slut/


(I am not saying it all Singaporeans do it. I am saying there are a large number such people)