{"id":19088,"date":"2025-12-12T19:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=19088"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:31:47","slug":"uncle-berates-young-man-on-bus-you-want-to-fight-im-sporean-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=19088","title":{"rendered":"Uncle berates young man on bus: &#8216;You want to fight? I&#8217;m S&#8217;porean, you know&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">An elderly bus passenger has been caught on video berating a man \u2014 purportedly a foreign worker \u2014 and challenging him to a fight, leaving netizens riled and confused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The 38-second clip, uploaded to <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/17g5DswHpA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/span>, starts with the elderly man &#8211; standing with his back to the camera \u2014 telling a younger man not to talk so loudly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The latter, who has taken a seat reserved for the elderly or handicapped, regards him impassively and replies: &#8220;Now you are louder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The older man utters an expletive, but the younger one remains unfazed, gesturing to another part of the bus and telling the older man: &#8220;Sit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;You want to fight?&#8221; says the elderly man. &#8220;I am a Singaporean, you know. You know who you are, behave yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">He mutters something unintelligible before telling the man to &#8220;keep your mouth shut&#8221;. The younger man replies: &#8220;Can I talk nicely?&#8221; before the clip ends.<span><br \/><\/span> <span><br \/><\/span>The clip, shared on Facebook page Singapore incidents on Dec 10, has so far garnered at least 82,000 views, 688 reactions and 247 comments.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">&#8216;We are all human beings&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Commenters on the post were uncertain about the full context of the incident, with some assuming the older man was scolding the younger one for taking a reserved seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Aiya&#8230;just stand up and give him the seat la. You so [sic] strong man, why u [sic] need the seat and the blue sign plate shown so clearly,&#8221; said one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others felt the spat was not about the seats. &#8220;Uncle making noise it&#8217;s [sic] not because of seat, most probably the fellows talk [sic] loud,&#8221; said a netizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;It is more like the FW [sic] was talking loudly, not about the seat, because there were empty ones around. Listen to what the SG uncle was saying,&#8221; said another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Some thought the older man was intoxicated. &#8220;The uncle appears drunk, keep [sic] talking, its not seat issue, mayb [sic] the guy was talking loudly,&#8221; said a Facebook user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others felt the older man was out of line. &#8220;Aiyoh Uncle u [sic] dont know how tired are [sic] they&#8230;You think easy [sic] work under sun and rain [sic] dusty and carry heavy things [sic] please let them relax human being must understand to [sic] one another,&#8221; said a commenter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Another said: &#8220;Uncle. No matter what happened, We [sic] are all human being, how you [sic] feel if you are being questioned by others when u [sic] are out of your country. Please be nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">There were random comments too, with one noting that the man seated beside the foreign worker resembled Liverpool footballer Mo Salah, who is currently in a spat with his club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Mo Salah sitting beside the guy must be wondering, first I was thrown under the bus..now inside bus also hv [sic] problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-md py-md xl:flex-row xl:items-center\"><span class=\"font-primary text-18 font-semibold leading-1.2 text-black\">Get more of Stomp&#8217;s latest updates by following us on:<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<p>Join the conversation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/uncle-berates-young-man-bus-you-want-fight-im-sporean-you-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly bus passenger has been caught on video berating a man \u2014 purportedly a foreign worker \u2014 and challenging him to a fight, leaving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}