GrabFood Rider Allegedly ‘Cut Queue’ & Hit Man’s Phone; Netizens Debate Over Who’s Wrong

The job of a food delivery rider isn’t easy.

This is why most of our articles that have “GrabFood Rider” in the headline are about riders who’ve had to deal with difficult customers or neighbours who are just having a bad day.

And with the surge in deliveries during the Covid-19 outbreak, riders are more stressed than ever.

This time, though, it’s the rider who appears to be the one who’s taking his frustrations out on others.

GrabFood Rider Hit Man’s Phone

A GrabFood rider slapped a phone out of a man’s hand after he was called out for cutting a queue at a mall.

A video of the incident was posted to the Facebook group All Singapore Stuff. 

The video starts off with the rider and a man in red arguing.

The rider was infuriated, and the man was trying to calm him down.

The man calmly told the rider that there was no need to point fingers at each other, saying he was just asking the rider to queue.

It’s at this point that the rider loses his cool and violently smacks the phone out of the man’s hand. It looked a little like a Hulk smash but in the opposite direction.

The rider also shows off his extensive vocabulary by uttering several expletives. Meanwhile, the man moves away from the rider and looks for his phone.

Allegedly Cut Queue

Now, if you heard that one of these two men cut a queue, you’d assume that it was the man in red who was the perpetrator, because of how furious the rider was.

But, according to the man’s wife, it was actually the rider who cut the queue.

In a post on Facebook group Complaint Singapore, a woman who claims to be the man’s wife said that she and her husband were entering a certain mall, along with other patrons, when the GrabFood rider rushed in and cut the queue.

Her husband allegedly said, “It’s not nice to cut people’s queue, man”, to which the rider very cordially and loudly replied “It’s not your problem.”

(Though you’ve got to wonder why is there a need for a GrabFood rider to queue.)

“I’m queuing too, so it’s my problem,” the man in red retorted.

This upset the rider, who started obstructing the couple’s path and asking them what they wanted.

The couple tried walking away, but the rider followed them and kept blocking their path, trying to start a fight.

And what happened next is what we all saw in the video: the man in red tries to calm the rider down, but he smacks the man’s phone onto the floor instead.

The woman also addressed some netizens’ comments that the man in red must have done something to antagonise the rider, saying all he did was call him out for cutting the queue, and that everything was caught on the mall’s security cameras, if they needed proof.

The real victim in this, of course, is this innocent phone, who didn’t do anything to deserve such violence.

Netizens’ Reactions

As you can imagine, many netizens slammed the man for his behaviour.

Others pointed out that food delivery riders don’t typically have to queue for their food, as they’re given priority.

So yes: do remember that this is still a one-sided story.