{"id":78883,"date":"2026-08-23T18:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78883"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:41:43","slug":"power-leh-bus-driver-earns-plaudits-for-scolding-cars-hogging-bus-lane-at-jb-customs-malaysia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78883","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Power leh!&#8217; Bus driver earns plaudits for scolding cars hogging bus lane at JB customs, Malaysia News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A bus driver earned applause and praise from his passengers after he got out of his vehicle to scold drivers hogging the bus lane at Johor Bahru customs.<\/p>\n<p>The act was recorded and uploaded to Instagram in a now-viral video by user Jonathan Kang on Thursday (Aug 20).<\/p>\n<p>The video has since garnered over 9,000 likes and more than 326,000 views as of Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the bus driver can be seen braving the rain, angrily approaching a group of cars that have stopped in the bus lane as they attempt to jump in the queue at customs.<\/p>\n<p>Still wearing his hot pink neck pillow, the driver walks up to one of the cars, rapping his knuckles on their driver-side window.<\/p>\n<p>He can be seen berating the drivers, possibly urging them to drive on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a bus lane, but look at these cars, they&#8217;re blocking [traffic],&#8221; Kang, a passenger on the bus, said in a mix of Mandarin and English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But look at our driver &#8211; he immediately got off the bus and began chasing them away!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another passenger quipped: &#8220;He&#8217;s being a traffic policeman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the bus driver re-enters the vehicle, he&#8217;s met with applause from his passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wah, power <em>leh<\/em>!&#8221; Kang shouts in praise.<\/p>\n<p>The video then cuts to Kang&#8217;s bus ahead of the queue as they look back and see an officer approaching one of the vehicles that is in the bus lane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s over for him,&#8221; Kang commented in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>The video ends as the officer can be seen issuing instructions to the driver before stepping away.<\/p>\n<p>Errant motorists caught attempting to jump the queue will be turned away and made to re-queue, according to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.<\/p>\n<p>During the Vesak Day long weekend between May and June this year, 30 motorists were caught for various traffic offences at Woodlands Checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 30 errant motorists stopped by authority figures, 21 vehicles were immediately directed to turn around, make a U-turn, and re-queue at the back of the line.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:742265]]<\/p>\n<p>khooyihang@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/malaysia\/jb-customs-bus-driver-scolding-cars-hogging-bus-lane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus driver earned applause and praise from his passengers after he got out of his vehicle to scold drivers hogging the bus lane at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78884,"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-78883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883","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=78883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}