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02/11/2007
Brits behaving badly set off Singapore 'net furore
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From the Guardian blog
November 1, 2007 3:37 PM
Three British tourists who posted a video of themselves laughing at their elderly trishaw driver in Singapore have set off a firestorm of criticism and abuse in the net savvy nation. The tourists repeatedly say that they can walk faster as they snigger. They then try to stiff the driver, initially claiming that they had been robbed and then simply walking off to catch a taxi. The 26-year-old who posted the video with the title "the Slowest Taxi in SE Asia" took the video down after hundreds of vitriolic comments from Singaporeans. Liew Hanqing, a reporter with Singapore's New Paper, tracked down the poster of the video, Bo Davis, through YouTube and Facebook.
Find out what their fellow brits think of them on The Guardian.
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I think the guys meant no harm; otherwise they would not have embarrassed themselves by putting the video up (they did not cover their faces with swirls like that pedephile arrested in thailand did)
tourists often behave loutishly because they are in a place where their family and friends are not there watching them; singapreans, for example, dont little at home but some do so abroad where there is no big brother or big sister to comment on their behaviour
Posted by: yuen | 03/11/2007