Woman Shouted & Demanded For Compensation After Fellow Commuter’s Phone Dropped On Her Foot

Who likes dropping your belongings, show of hands please!

Okay I lied, no one likes it.

And especially when it comes to electronic devices, it can cause a minor aneurysm.

One such slip-up got an MRT commuter more than she bargained for. To be specific, she managed to trigger a verbal onslaught from a more than a little disgruntled woman.

What happened

On the Downtown Line on Thursday evening, 21 February 2019, at around 6.50 pm, a female commuter dropped her mobile phone on the leg of a woman.

Enraged, the victim of this apparently devastating incident retaliated with threats of legal action and grabbed the alleged perpetrator, even demanding that she hand over her ID.

She spiritedly expressed her agony and was eager in ensuring that the proper compensation was delivered should there be any treatment needed on her part.

The perpetrator, inconceivably, tried to explain that it was an accident.

Another commuter joined in the colourful conversation, trying to introduce what he must have thought was the voice of reason.

To no avail. 

Anyway, I hope you can detect the sarcasm. About who’s at fault, our stand should be quite clear.

It belongs solely to the manufacturer of the mobile phone who must have made the device with the essence of a bowling ball.

Here is the Video: 

In case you can’t hear the words clearly, here are some of the comments made by the woman (the victim):

• If I have medical expenses, you pay for my medical bill ok?”
• [To the third party] “And you shut up leh, you not even involved there, what witness are you? False witness ah?”
• “That day in Serangoon MRT, a woman hit me until my leg was bandaged for three months, I have $500 bill, you know?”
• “Now I don’t care. You give me your ID and you pay for my medical expenses ok?”
• “Your handphone hit me and I don’t raise my voice ah?”
• “You use your handphone hit her leg. [To the third party] Remove your shoes, hit on your leg, I see how you react.”
• “Even if it’s an accident on the road ah, a car hit accidentally, also have to pay insurance.”
• “My leg is suddenly pain down there, you know?”
• [To the third party] “And you get up immediately there and shut up there ah you.”

Must be some super heavy phone.

Now, let’s analyse the situation.

If we are to take the woman for her word, she had a previous encounter on the MRT train (public transport has really wronged her, it seems) that left with a $500 medical bill that she handled, presumably on her own.

With this in mind, her overreaction might be a bit more reasonable.

But since we can’t verify the facts which, to be frank, seem a tad hyperbolic, this video becomes rather incriminating.

Secondly, for those unfamiliar with our justice system, perhaps a small part of you remains unsure if the woman actually has the upper hand here.

After all, like what she said, writing something off as an accident will not hold much weight if vehicles are involved (and yes we know, mobile phones and cars are about as different as a worm and a dinosaur, but just maybe the line starts to blur if you’re legally blind, pun intended).

But it’s a smartphone for God’s sake!

So I did a little digging around and found this under penal code:

Accident in the doing of a lawful act

80.  Nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune, and without any criminal intention or knowledge, in the doing of a lawful act in a lawful manner, by lawful means, and with proper care and caution.

Illustration  

A is at work with a hatchet; the head flies off and hits a man who is standing by. Here, if there was no lack of proper caution on the part of A, his act is excusable and not an offence.

So that seems to settle it. It seems that accidents involving vehicles are truly of a different class, as this YouTube user helpfully commented:

Lastly, does anyone know what the woman meant by “false witness”?