SBS traffic inspectors get a taste of their own medicine
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Feb 17, 2007
SBS traffic inspectors get a taste of their own medicine
By T. Rajan
A MOTORIST got back at SBS Transit's traffic inspectors who photographed his car parked in a bus lane.
Shortly after they took the photo, he spotted the two inspectors having breakfast, with their motorcycles parked illegally along double yellow lines. Whipping out his camera-phone, he filmed the motorcycles, confronted the two men and then put up the sequence on popular video-sharing website YouTube.
Now the clip is making its rounds on the Internet via blogs here, and the two men are in trouble with their employer.
The video-clip does not identify the motorist, but he is heard asking the two inspectors why they parked illegally.
He also asks them why they had photographed his car, instead of simply asking his wife, who had been seated inside, to move it.
The inspectors tell him in the clip that they were just doing their job.
The licence-plate numbers of the motorcycles are clearly visible in the nearly two-minute-long clip.
Yesterday, a spokesman for SBS Transit confirmed that the inspectors were its staff and added that the company expected better behaviour.
'We are dismayed to learn of this incident,' she told The Straits Times. 'The two mobile traffic inspectors filmed in the clip will be disciplined.'
The company will also remind all its inspectors not to break the law, especially because they are supposed to help enforce it.
The main duties of the 12-strong team include responding to bus accidents and breakdowns, as well as nabbing motorists who stray into the bus lanes.
The inspectors cannot issue traffic summonses or fines.
They forward photographs of errant motorists to the Land Transport Authority to decide if action should be taken.
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It's time those snooty chaps at the bus companies learn a lesson about abusing their power.
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pwn3d!
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sbst employs dumbos
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=3v96fSeGWdE
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Increase bus fares some more lah, so the bus companies have so much money can employ people to start a war with car owners
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nice revenge @.@
those warden are in the wrong themselves and they still kpkb... -
Wahaha, the green martians were beaten at their own game.
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LOL... pure ownage.
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Unstoppable Stupidity! Owning!
Cheers.
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obi good!
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another article..
SINGAPORE, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Two Singapore traffic wardens got a taste of their own medicine when they were photographed having breakfast -- with their motorbikes parked illegally nearby -- after "busting" a rush hour motorist.
The unidentified motorist used his camera phone to film the pair after being annoyed when he spotted them taking pictures of his car in a bus lane, the Straits Times reported on Saturday.
He posted the video clip on the Internet's popular video-sharing Web site, YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v96fSeGWdE), the paper said.
In the two-minute video, the man is heard asking the wardens why their own vehicles were illegally parked -- to which one of the wardens replies they were just "doing our job" before brushing him off.
The newspaper said the the wardens were now in trouble with their employers, a local public transport company.
While not empowered to issue fines, the wardens can submit photographs of errant motorists to police for further action. The video has already been viewed thousands of times on YouTube, with normally staid Singaporeans gleefully praising the citizen ombudsman. -
Luckily my job application at sbst got rejected. Or else this CNY, I got no face being with this kind of employer.
"It is our duty.....to have breakfast." -
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Did you submit your CV to SMRT Bus as well?Originally posted by ditzy:Luckily my job application at sbst got rejected. Or else this CNY, I got no face being with this kind of employer.
"It is our duty.....to have breakfast." -
Steady lah.
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Steady pom pi pi.Originally posted by CoolMyth:Steady lah. -
actually this is nothing new lah
i noticed many SBST short-trip services parked along double yellow line before commencing their trip, i wonder SBST has sought the authorization of LTA to do so
Couple of years ago, there were several express services, eg 501, 502, etc which commenced journey from the bus stop outside Outram Park MRT station to areas like hougang and sengkang, back then i was really surprised to see 3 to 4 DDs parked just behind the outram road bus stop. alongside the double yellow lines which prohibits waiting/stopping -
anyway, a lot of those C**** security vans (those which deliver money to bank and top up cash to ATMs) one also alway park illegally at the road side.
Just near my house there got one POSB branch and infront and behind the block got two huge carparks. Yet they choose to park at the road side even when the car park is empty.
Likewise at Woodland Civic Centre. The security van alway park along Woodland Ave 5 outside the Civic Centre, and yet those traffic warden from the same company alway come to that area to issue summon to motorists park there..
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Wah seh, police (altho auxiliary) still break law arh? But anyway i dont think they parked illegally, cause they are doing their job. Would you dare take 10s of thousands and walked for a longer distance? No right?Originally posted by lemon1974:anyway, a lot of those C**** security vans (those which deliver money to bank and top up cash to ATMs) one also alway park illegally at the road side.
Just near my house there got one POSB branch and infront and behind the block got two huge carparks. Yet they choose to park at the road side even when the car park is empty.
Likewise at Woodland Civic Centre. The security van alway park along Woodland Ave 5 outside the Civic Centre, and yet those traffic warden from the same company alway come to that area to issue summon to motorists park there.. 
But some of them also buay ji dong one. Park at a place where drivers cant see the road infront properly because of their big size van. 
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let all CISCO, UNITED PREMAS, TP, SBST traffic wardens all park along the road lah.
they is doing their duty.
we film TP WRX for stopping along shoulder of expressway can? -
Man park car alongs roadside.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: Hey why u park along the roadside?
Man in car: I am doing my duty.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: Wad duty? ur not even in uniform
Man in car: If i tell u i have to kill you.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: hahaha big joke u are getting stomped man!
Man in Car: ISD.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: sorry boss
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sorry boss.Originally posted by Pitot:Man park car alongs roadside.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: Hey why u park along the roadside?
Man in car: I am doing my duty.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: Wad duty? ur not even in uniform
Man in car: If i tell u i have to kill you.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: hahaha big joke u are getting stomped man!
Man in Car: ISD.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: sorry boss -
sorry bossOriginally posted by Pitot:Man park car alongs roadside.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: Hey why u park along the roadside?
Man in car: I am doing my duty.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: Wad duty? ur not even in uniform
Man in car: If i tell u i have to kill you.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: hahaha big joke u are getting stomped man!
Man in Car: ISD.
kayponothingbettertodostomptriggerhappyperson: sorry boss
But what is ISD?