{"id":19120,"date":"2025-12-12T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=19120"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:34:37","slug":"punggol-resident-disturbed-by-man-knocking-on-doors-for-donations-says-he-turned-aggressive-when-confronted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=19120","title":{"rendered":"Punggol resident disturbed by man knocking on doors for donations, says he turned &#8216;aggressive&#8217; when confronted"},"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\">A woman living in Punggol Northshore said she was left unsettled after a man went around knocking on doors and pressing doorbells repeatedly at her block on Dec 11 at about 7.55pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Stomper <span><b>Lynn <\/b><\/span>told Stomp the persistent knocking caused a disturbance at her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;A suspicious individual was repeatedly door-knocking and pressing doorbells,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;When I told him through the closed door to stop, he became extremely rude and even aggressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"video-container my-lg w-[620px] h-[349px]\" src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4802324446001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=6386375826112\" title=\"#NoTapis\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">In the video, the man is heard saying: &#8220;Then you cannot answer ah? You mute ah? Are you handicapped?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">According to the Stomper, she later heard from her neighbours that the man is an ex-convict who claimed he was seeking donations in the form of selling vouchers on behalf of ex-offenders and low-income families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Really? With such an attitude?&#8221; she asked, adding that she does not know if he is properly licensed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s real or fake but the knocking and bell-pressing were the same for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Lynn shared that she felt concerned because many elderly residents live in the block and may not know who is at the door, especially if they do not have a door viewer installed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not illegal to knock on doors but it&#8217;s not right to insult or verbally abuse residents and disturb their peace with incessant door-knockings and bell-pressing at night,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;And with that suspicious face and behaviour, who dares to open the door?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">She added that the incident reminded her of a recent report on a scammer who was arrested after <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/man-who-went-knocking-doors-asking-donations-bedok-north-gets-46-months-jail-cheating\" target=\"_blank\" data-discover=\"true\">knocking on doors and asking for donations in Bedok<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Lynn said she has not made a police report but hopes to raise awareness among her neighbours and encourage others to be cautious.<\/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\/singapore-seen\/punggol-resident-disturbed-man-knocking-doors-donations-says-he-turned-aggressive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman living in Punggol Northshore said she was left unsettled after a man went around knocking on doors and pressing doorbells repeatedly at her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19121,"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-19120","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\/19120","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=19120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}