Maskless Woman Makes A Scene on Board Bus Service 69; Tells SBS Transit Staff to “Call 999”

Here you have it folks, it’s a continuation of the “shameless-Karen-makes-a-scene” saga.

In an absolutely stellar display of common decency, yet another woman refused to wear a mask in public and—you guessed it—proceeded to make a scene.

Well. Guess we’ll be seeing you in court, ma’am.

Woman Makes a Scene on Board Bus, Refuses to Wear Mask

On Monday (14 Jun) night around 10:20pm, a woman on board bus service 69 in Bedok made a scene as she refused to wear a face mask.

Speaking to Shin Min Daily News, a passenger on board said that there were about 20 people on the bus at the time.

“I believe that the bus captain didn’t notice that she wasn’t wearing a mask when she boarded the bus,” said the passenger. He then alerted the bus captain, after which the bus captain approached the woman and reminded her to put a mask on.

However, as everyone expected, the woman got into an argument with the bus captain.

Here we go again.

The captain then contacted his colleagues at the Bedok bus interchange for help. In a video clip of the incident, the woman can be seen taunting the bus captain’s colleague and spewing expletives at him.

“Wear (a mask) for what?” the woman can be seen asking at one point in the video. “Call 999, make a police report,” she taunted the colleague.

Rest assured, I think SBS Transit will do exactly that.

The entire incident lasted for around 15 minutes, resulting in many passengers alighting as their journeys were delayed.

The woman left after the incident and the bus captain continued on the bus route.

Since last April, it has been compulsory for commuters to wear a mask on public transport. Those without a mask will be denied entry, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA).

String of Cases Where Passengers Refused to Wear a Mask 

Unfortunately, this case is only the latest in a series of similar incidents where passengers got agitated when asked to wear a mask on public transport.

Or just when asked to wear a mask in public, in general.

Many have been reported to have threatened the bus captains, or even assaulted them.

On 8 August last year, one commuter confronted the bus captain after being asked to put on his mask for the third time. He reportedly only stopped after the bus captain said that he would call the police.

Before the commuter alighted, he threatened the bus captain, “Do you believe that I’ll make you lose your job?”

I really don’t, actually—but do you believe that you’ll be charged in court?

He also shouted expletives, made rude hand gestures, and even spat at the bus captain before alighting.

In another incident on 15 September last year, a 52-year-old passenger was arrested after assaulting a bus captain. The bus captain had alerted the police after the passenger refused his request to put on a mask, and stopped at a bus stop along Pasir Ris Drive 1 to wait for officers to arrive.

Unhappy, the passenger had grabbed the bus driver’s neck and collar, holding on for more than a minute before he was tackled by three other young men at the bus stop.

Honestly, do these people really think that there’s going to be zero repercussions for their actions? And maybe it’s time to give our bus captains a raise; they don’t get paid enough to handle these annoying passengers.

Ah, or perhaps they’re learning from their best friend “Badge Lady”, and think that they “should be granted immunity as a citizen”?

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