A commuter was “flabbergasted” after discovering that a man had placed a pile of plastic bags in front of the MRT platform doors to “chope” his place in the queue.
The commuter, Oh Ee Ching, told Stomp that the incident happened at Outram Park MRT station, at around 4.30pm on Aug 8.
Recounting the incident, Oh said in a TikTok post on Aug 11 that she was waiting for a train at the MRT station when she noticed two full plastic bags placed in front of the train doors.
When the train arrived, the bags’ owner — someone whom she described as a “middle-aged, able-bodied” man — stood up from the seating area and retrieved the items, she says in the video.
The 28-year-old business analyst adds that the man then planted himself outside the train doors and “just went right in” when they opened, instead of allowing other passengers to alight first.
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“I wonder if we have degenerated so much as a society. Is this a new trend? I already have low expectations of courtesy in society, but this is a new low,” she muses, saying his action of “choping” his place in the line was “ridiculous”.
“It really boils down to how selfish you want to be. It’s appalling that we actually need signs to tell you to be considerate to other people,” she continues. “Shouldn’t this be an innate thing?”
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