Passenger fined for hitting cabby who insulted his mother

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Passenger fined for hitting cabby who insulted his mother

Published on Dec 27, 2012
By Khushwant Singh

Liew Beng Huat, 53, was fined $2,500 on Thursday for hurting taxi driver Alan Yong Cher Ming.

He had pleaded guilty to hitting the 45-year-old cabby on the back of the head with his hand on grave and sudden provocation rendered by the driver.

A district court heard that the SMRT cab had picked up Liew, his girlfriend and a friend at the St James Power Station at about 5am on June 24 this year. The friend got off in the MacPherson area. At Lorong 2 Toa Payoh, Liew asked Mr Yong to wait as he wanted to accompany his girlfriend up to her flat.

The cabby, afraid that the passenger might not return, asked for some money as a deposit and an argument broke out. Both men decided to proceed to a police station and during the drive there, Mr Yong uttered the profanity about Mr Liew's mother. Furious, the passenger hit the cabby's head.

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[G00DUSAMI]

two stupid sinkies....damn silly....

 

[lianbeng]

lianbeng says: both are actually wrong - cabby anyhow scold people's mother n uncle jit liap hor yee! but uncle show hand 1st so must go lim kopi lor!

 

[Leungsam]

What a night for the both uncle.

Both age added up already 98 still like that.

 

[Microsoft]

Dun think any taxi driver will let chiu leave wo paying...end up wasting working time go mata chu...cnot blame him for sending regards to ah liew mom...

 

[Hudson]

Moral of the story - Don't insult other people's mother. If mom got insulted, insult his mom back and walk away. Don't get physical.

Insulting mom is really bad.

As taxi driver, this is an inherent risk of ferrying somebody who may become a risky non paying passenger. There are many such cases.

Just wonder if the taxi driver ended up driving taxi as his choice "career" or he ended up driving taxi because he was retrenched from his intended career by those FT.

 

[Bollocks]

Moral of the story - Insulting mom is really bad. You can get away with it by offering an apology but usually it does not work and isn't good enough. Offering money as compensation definitely will.