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Foreign workers help move car stuck on stairs at Waterway Point
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Photo: Garett Lim
While onlookers gawked and took photos of a car which ended up on a flight of stairs, a group of foreign workers banded together to push the car back onto the road.
The incident, which happened on Thursday evening (21 Sept) at Waterway Point in Punggol was caught on video by Garett Lim.
His post has gotten 3,000 shares since he shared it yesterday evening.
In the video, about 16 workers are seen pushing the car up a small flight of stairs. Lim told The Straits Times that the driver could have made a wrong turn and the front of the vehicle ended up on the stairs. Lim also told the newspaper that when the incident happened, no one came forward to help the driver.
Posting about the incident on Facebook, Lim wrote, “The main thing is not the poor fellow’s car turning into the wrong way but our locals ‘Including Me’, (feeling ashamed) standing down there, whipping out our phones and starting to take pictures while our friends from another foreign country whip out theirs to call for more help to shift the car. That’s what I call ‘Taking Action’!”
Lim added, “These are the very people who helped construct our skylines but yet are being unappreciated by some in our society.”
Some Facebook users who commented on Lim’s post wrote positively about foreign workers in Singapore.
“Once happen when half of my car when into a drain in Sungei Kadut area, making it impossible for a tow truck to tow me out because of the awkward position. But with all the (foreign workers), around 25-30 of them, they hand carried my car out of the drain without making any more damaged to it,” wrote Amy Rushdee Rosli.
Another user, Joyce Gabrielle Low, said, “Thank you for sharing this. How would our country be without their contributions? I travel a lot by foot and everywhere I go, I see them toiling under the merciless sun, performing the jobs that many of us, creatures of comfort, shun. They humble themselves in so many ways when in our presence. It’s opportunities like this and people who possess a heart of humanity like you that give them the respect and recognition that they never ask for but definitely deserve.”
Foreign workers help move car stuck on stairs at Waterway Point
Yahoo News Singapore Yahoo News Singapore 3 hours ago
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Photo: Garett Lim
While onlookers gawked and took photos of a car which ended up on a flight of stairs, a group of foreign workers banded together to push the car back onto the road.
The incident, which happened on Thursday evening (21 Sept) at Waterway Point in Punggol was caught on video by Garett Lim.
His post has gotten 3,000 shares since he shared it yesterday evening.
In the video, about 16 workers are seen pushing the car up a small flight of stairs. Lim told The Straits Times that the driver could have made a wrong turn and the front of the vehicle ended up on the stairs. Lim also told the newspaper that when the incident happened, no one came forward to help the driver.
Posting about the incident on Facebook, Lim wrote, “The main thing is not the poor fellow’s car turning into the wrong way but our locals ‘Including Me’, (feeling ashamed) standing down there, whipping out our phones and starting to take pictures while our friends from another foreign country whip out theirs to call for more help to shift the car. That’s what I call ‘Taking Action’!”
Lim added, “These are the very people who helped construct our skylines but yet are being unappreciated by some in our society.”
Some Facebook users who commented on Lim’s post wrote positively about foreign workers in Singapore.
“Once happen when half of my car when into a drain in Sungei Kadut area, making it impossible for a tow truck to tow me out because of the awkward position. But with all the (foreign workers), around 25-30 of them, they hand carried my car out of the drain without making any more damaged to it,” wrote Amy Rushdee Rosli.
Another user, Joyce Gabrielle Low, said, “Thank you for sharing this. How would our country be without their contributions? I travel a lot by foot and everywhere I go, I see them toiling under the merciless sun, performing the jobs that many of us, creatures of comfort, shun. They humble themselves in so many ways when in our presence. It’s opportunities like this and people who possess a heart of humanity like you that give them the respect and recognition that they never ask for but definitely deserve.”
