{"id":24616,"date":"2025-12-31T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24616"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:56:36","slug":"bring-it-out-bus-driver-and-passenger-in-heated-argument-at-woodlands-interchange-allegedly-over-durians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24616","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bring it out!&#8217;: Bus driver and passenger in heated argument at Woodlands Interchange, allegedly over durians"},"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 heated argument between a bus driver and a passenger at Woodlands Interchange arose after the latter allegedly insisted on bringing durians onto the bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Sylvia William, a 36-year-old banker, posted a video of the incident, garnering over 583,500 views and 8,000 likes. Ms William said the altercation took place at 9.44pm on Dec 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The 20-second clip, captioned &#8220;Incident at Woodlands Interchange today&#8221;, shows a driver of bus service 911, operated by SMRT, standing at his seat in the bus. He engages in a heated exchange with a woman dressed in red, as other passengers crowd around them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Bring it out,&#8221; the driver says twice, pointing towards the exit. The woman jabs a finger in his face, and a scream is heard from one of the passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The driver then sits back down as other passengers attempt to coax the woman off the bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Ms William told Stomp that she was not aware of what triggered the argument. &#8220;A few people tried to calm (the woman) down. But it did not work,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Everyone went there to find out what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">She added that the bus driver resumed his duties and did not engage with the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The incident was reposted on @fyisingapore_, with a caption suggesting that the <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fyisingapore_\/video\/7589191245939870996?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\">dispute started &#8220;after a passenger attempted to bring a durian onto the bus&#8221;.<\/a><\/span> However, based on the TikTok clip, it is unclear if the woman was indeed carrying durians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">SMRT regulations state that bus passengers are <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/file.go.gov.sg\/bus-coc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">not allowed to carry durians that are not in vacuum-sealed packaging<\/a><\/span>, or are in any form that may hurt other passengers or soil public buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Stomp has reached out to SMRT and fyisingapore_ for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">Netizens urge compassion, support driver<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">In the comments, many netizens expressed outrage at the incident, calling the woman&#8217;s behaviour was &#8220;selfish&#8221; and &#8220;embarrassing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;&#8216;No durian&#8217; has been known for ages, why still need to argue?&#8221; one netizen asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others commended the bus driver for standing his ground. &#8220;Good job captain. Not all like durian smell,&#8221; one said, while another agreed that he did the right thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Bus captains have the authority to ask passengers to leave the bus if they bring prohibited items like durians,&#8221; a netizen pointed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Several urged the woman to be considerate to passengers and the bus driver, while others suggested increasing fines for bringing durians onto public transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;At [sic] the bus and mrt can&#8217;t bring durian so need [sic] respect lah&#8230;. must follow the rules,&#8221; another netizen said.<\/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><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/bring-it-out-bus-driver-passenger-heated-argument-woodlands-interchange-allegedly-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heated argument between a bus driver and a passenger at Woodlands Interchange arose after the latter allegedly insisted on bringing durians onto the bus&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24617,"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-24616","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\/24616","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=24616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}