Guy Who’s Wrongly CSI-ed As Cyclist Received Death Threats & Has to Make a Police Report

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George Yang
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Imagine you’re minding your own business, having lunch with your beloved family when someone messages you on Facebook.

No, your family is more important and so, you finish your lunch and check out what it is.

Someone just threatened you, and your family members, because of what you did as a cyclist.

Well, you do know that you’re a cyclist, but you’ve not been cycling for weeks due to a motorbike accident. And you’re one of the many cyclists who obey every single rule—what’s happening?

Another message comes in, and more comes in.

What do you do? Stay low? Keep quiet? Pretend nothing’s happened?

Then you realized you’re being wrongly accused as that cyclist: the one who’s gone extremely viral not just in Singapore but internationally, too.

Image: Facebook (ROADS.sg)

All because you’ve a profile picture that looks just a little like the cyclist.

Well, this might seem like another blockbuster about cyberbullying from Netflix, but unfortunately, it does happen to one innocent guy, though we made up the part about how the harassment comes in.

Case of Wrong Identity

Yesterday, we wrote about how netizens have wrongly accused a person just because he looks like the cyclist.

One comment sums it all up:

Apparently, he couldn’t have been the cyclist as he’s now recovering from an injury.

Because of this, the company he works in has been receiving bad reviews:

 

Which prompts the company to issue a statement…its first Facebook post after more than two months:

But it doesn’t end there.

Innocent Guy Allegedly Received Death Threats & Harassment

You know shit has hit the fan when netizens decided to take it up a notch by not just simply mindlessly sharing unverified information, but even harassing the accused.

Where’s the “innocent until proven guilty” mentality?

According to a new Facebook post by the company, the innocent guy has to make a police report as he has received death threats and unjust accusations.

In case you can’t read:

Clarification from DDB

We wish to clarify that the person in the video is not Peter Cheung.

Peter has received unjust accusations and death threats. He has since filed a harassment report with the Singapore Police (#E/20181223/2083), and any harassment will be referred to the authorities.

We ask all who have put up errorneous feedback and ratings on our DDB Facebook site to retract/remove them within the next 24 hours. The postings will be referred to the police.

In addition to that, the company has also requested that people who posted those negative feedback to retract or remove their reviews, or they’ll be referred to the police.

Just so you know, reviews, unlike comments, cannot be removed or hidden by the Page admins.

Though we’re not sure how the police can help in the bad reviews.

Not the First Time This Has Happened

If this sounds familiar, it’s because this has happened before.

Last year, an innocent girl was unfortunately being CSI-ed for being the lady who bullied an elderly in a hawker centre at Toa Payoh.

She has to make a police report after that, but what’s even more surprising is that some angry netizens were still blaming her.

In addition, netizens also accused that the lady worked in UOB, in which UOB has to issue a statement and claimed that none of their employees was involved in the video.

And by the way, guess why netizens accused her of being the lady in the video?

Well, let this comment answer the question aptly.

So please: you might feel like Superman when you fight for justice online, and your friends might think that you’re the kindest and bravest human being in the world, but let the experts do the work.

Remember, the couple in the hawker centre was eventually arrested and charged.

Watch this for a complete summary of what REALLY happened to Qoo10, and why it's like a K-drama:

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George Yang
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