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Chinese-speaking women ‘punch, spit at’ Singaporean man in fight that sparks outcry
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 May, 2015, 3:16pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 07 May, 2015, 6:44pm
Chris Luo [email protected]
http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486x302/public/2015/05/07/sg-fight.jpg?itok=YUBNrgSo
Screen grab of the video shows the man and two women in quarrel. Photo: YouTube
A face-slapping, expletive-laced fight involving two Chinese-speaking women and a Singaporean man triggered outcry among internet users in the city-state after a series of video clips showed the dispute in detail.
In the first of three videos that went viral in Singapore, filmed by an unknown bystander, the women are seen standing at the reception area of a Singaporean condominium, already visibly angry at a particular male staff member.
When he approaches one of the women, wearing a chequered dress, she says: “Go away, go away! I am looking at your ugly face, I feel disgusting [sic].”
The argument escalates when he refuses to leave and she says, “F*** you.” He is heard replying, “You wish, right?”
Incensed, the women, who switch between English and Putonghua with a mainland Chinese accent, proceed to hurl vulgarities and a beverage at him. They also lunge over the counter to punch and slap the man several times.
It was unclear what initially caused the incident. But at one point in the video, the woman demands that the man provide her an access card to the building and threatens to tell the police that he had hit her first.
After one of the women spits in the man's face, the staff member looks as if he is about to hit her - but is quickly stopped by an elderly man who spoke with an Indian accent. The elderly man tried to placate the women, saying, “Wait outside la, please.”
The male staffer is restrained from approaching the women for the rest of the video.
Separate footage, apparently taken after the heated altercation, showed the same man being led away by police officers as the women continued to berate him and accuse him of sexual harassment.
When one police officer tried to block their path, the woman in a chequered dress screamed that she would file a complaint against him for not handling the matter squarely.
“This kind of the attitude of you policemen is exactly the reason that he could sexually harass me every day,” she is heard saying in the video. She then takes a photo of the police officer with her mobile phone.
While police had yet to state what happened before the dispute escalated, most commentators on the internet came to the Singaporean man’s defence.
“You can see that the man subjected to the abuse had controlled himself and only when he was spat at that he raised his hand to slap the woman,” wrote one user on www.allsingaporestuff.com (http://www.allsingaporestuff.com), a popular Singapore internet community. “Given the provoking circumstances, the man has shown considerable restraint.”
Others also demanded that the two Chinese women should explain their actions and, though it was unclear if the women were residents or tourists, alluded to past reports of bad behaviour by Chinese abroad.
The Chinese government has sought to improve the image of its increasingly worldly citizens internationally by promoting tourist etiquette.
Some 1.7 million Chinese tourists went to Singapore last year. Chinese Singaporeans also comprise more than 70 per cent of the Lion City’s 5 million population.
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Chinese-speaking women ‘punch, spit at’ Singaporean man in fight that sparks outcry
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 May, 2015, 3:16pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 07 May, 2015, 6:44pm
Chris Luo [email protected]
http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486x302/public/2015/05/07/sg-fight.jpg?itok=YUBNrgSo
Screen grab of the video shows the man and two women in quarrel. Photo: YouTube
A face-slapping, expletive-laced fight involving two Chinese-speaking women and a Singaporean man triggered outcry among internet users in the city-state after a series of video clips showed the dispute in detail.
In the first of three videos that went viral in Singapore, filmed by an unknown bystander, the women are seen standing at the reception area of a Singaporean condominium, already visibly angry at a particular male staff member.
When he approaches one of the women, wearing a chequered dress, she says: “Go away, go away! I am looking at your ugly face, I feel disgusting [sic].”
The argument escalates when he refuses to leave and she says, “F*** you.” He is heard replying, “You wish, right?”
Incensed, the women, who switch between English and Putonghua with a mainland Chinese accent, proceed to hurl vulgarities and a beverage at him. They also lunge over the counter to punch and slap the man several times.
It was unclear what initially caused the incident. But at one point in the video, the woman demands that the man provide her an access card to the building and threatens to tell the police that he had hit her first.
After one of the women spits in the man's face, the staff member looks as if he is about to hit her - but is quickly stopped by an elderly man who spoke with an Indian accent. The elderly man tried to placate the women, saying, “Wait outside la, please.”
The male staffer is restrained from approaching the women for the rest of the video.
Separate footage, apparently taken after the heated altercation, showed the same man being led away by police officers as the women continued to berate him and accuse him of sexual harassment.
When one police officer tried to block their path, the woman in a chequered dress screamed that she would file a complaint against him for not handling the matter squarely.
“This kind of the attitude of you policemen is exactly the reason that he could sexually harass me every day,” she is heard saying in the video. She then takes a photo of the police officer with her mobile phone.
While police had yet to state what happened before the dispute escalated, most commentators on the internet came to the Singaporean man’s defence.
“You can see that the man subjected to the abuse had controlled himself and only when he was spat at that he raised his hand to slap the woman,” wrote one user on www.allsingaporestuff.com (http://www.allsingaporestuff.com), a popular Singapore internet community. “Given the provoking circumstances, the man has shown considerable restraint.”
Others also demanded that the two Chinese women should explain their actions and, though it was unclear if the women were residents or tourists, alluded to past reports of bad behaviour by Chinese abroad.
The Chinese government has sought to improve the image of its increasingly worldly citizens internationally by promoting tourist etiquette.
Some 1.7 million Chinese tourists went to Singapore last year. Chinese Singaporeans also comprise more than 70 per cent of the Lion City’s 5 million population.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?206319-Chinese-speaking-women-‘punch-spit-at’-Singaporean-man-in-fight-that-sparks-outcry&goto=newpost).