We will like to know who is the Unknown man sitting beside Mr Tan

[Watchman]

We will like to know who is the Unknown man sitting beside Mr Tan the Comfort Taxi Driver <--- http://motoring.asiaone.com/Motoring/News/Story/A1Story20100628-224274.html

Mon, Jun 28, 2010
The New Paper

'What kind of service is this?'
HE HAD refused to help her carry her luggage into the boot.
And that irked MediaCorp TV host Quan Yifeng, 36,
so much that she lost her temper.
The cabby claimed she later kicked him in the groin,
ripped out his stereo and stole his car keys.
The police were called in but Quan left before they arrived.
The case has been classified as theft and investigations are on.
Quan is believed to have left Singapore shortly after
the incident. No one has been arrested.
The cabby, who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, 52,
told Lianhe Wanbao that he had picked up a man in
his 30s on East Coast Road around 8am yesterday.
The man told Mr Tan to go to a condo on Nallur Road first,
and then to the airport.
When they arrived at their first destination, Quan was
there with her daughter Eleanor, 11.
She asked Mr Tan to help put their luggage into the trunk.
But MrTan told her to do it herself.
He said Quan then told him: "What kind of service is this?"
Mr Tan claimed that Quan behaved in an "uncontrollable"
manner towards him after she boarded the cab.
Her male friend sat next to MrTan while Quan and her
daughter sat in the back.
Mr Tan said that when he asked which road they wanted
to take, her reply was: "Are you from Malaysia?
Changi Airport also don't know how to go?"
She threatened to make a complaint against him
and hit him with her mobile phone, he said.
When Mr Tan stopped at a traffic light, Quan jolted forward.
He claimed it was because she was not wearing a seat belt.
Unhappy about that, she accused him of braking "on purpose".
Mr Tan retorted: "You should know you have to put on
a seat belt when you're in a car."
She then shouted Hokkien vulgarities at him and
continued to hit him. Mr Tan said he stopped at the
junction of Upper East Coast Road and
Bedok South Avenue 1 and got out of the cab "for safety's sake".
He claimed that Quan also exited the cab, confronted
him and kicked him in the groin.
He claimed that she then took the keys to his cab and locked
herself inside. It is not known if her friend and daughter were
also in the taxi at that time. Mr Tan said she went on a
15-minute rampage, during which she broke his stereo and
taxi meter, tore up the calendar, emptied a bottle of
soft drink inside and overturned the money box.
The taxi was a mess after that, with coins, notes and
pieces of the calendar strewn over the front seats.
Mr Tan said he tried to take a photo of her using his
mobile phone and when Quan saw that, she even
made a "V" sign at him- signifying "victory".

 

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Called police

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He then called the police for assistance. But before they arrived,
Quan unlocked the door and got out. She grabbed his phone
and threw it on the ground.
By this time, Eleanor was crying and a crowd had gathered.
According to the report, Quan then told onlookers that she
had been hit by MrTan.
The trio took their luggage out from Mr Tan's cab.
They hailed another taxi and left before the police arrived.
MrTan said she did not return his keys to him.
Mr Tan later told Lianhe Wanbao he had refused to help her
carry her luggage because his arm was hurting.
When contacted, Mr Tan said he was dealing with the
case through the police and his company, Comfort- Delgro.
He did not want to comment further.
Calls to Quan's mobile phone last night went unanswered.

Quan is no stranger to controversy.

1. 
   In January 2008, a contractor accused her of making an obscene sign
   and scolding him with vulgarities.
   She had apparently been upset because he was driving too slowly.
   Quan later said she had scolded him because she had been provoked.
   
   [*]And in 2006, the owner of a car workshop said she was rude and had
   uttered vulgarities when she went to get her car repaired there.
   Quan had said then that the other party was the one who had been rude.
   
   [*]In 1996, she got into a fight with a bowling alley attendant and was fined $1,000.
   
   [*]That same year, she also drove without a licence and caused an accident.
   She was fined $1,300.
   

This article was first published in The New Paper.