I read about this much earlier on when it first got posted. Then I wasn’t quite sure of the whole story and thought that I’d hold my horses before commenting much on it. Then, I saw it on The Online Citizen… and subsequently from the AsiaOne website.

So! It was real! The Britons should really be ashamed of themselves. How could they bully someone who was already trying so hard to make a living. Come on, if you think $15 bucks is too much to pay for it, then don’t bother taking it in the first place. Hello? It’s a trishaw, and there are 3 of you on it. How fast would you expect it to go anyway?

Oh man, this really made my blood boil. This uncle, 67-year-old Mr Lee Shee Lam, an old man. How could these 3 young guys do such a thing to an old man? And if this article doesn’t make your blood boil, maybe this would:

Sigh. This is also a reflection of the problems that Singapore might face in the future, when we start getting an aging population. Perhaps that’s why the government is pushing in a lot of policies with regards to your CPF? Oh well, that’s another story altogether.