Vietnamese Lady on Taxi

POLICE have arrested a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman who climbed on top of a taxi and jumped on its roof, while screaming and kicking its advertisement board, for almost an hour yesterday.

Residents of an HDB block overlooking Hougang Avenue 9 said they awoke to the bizarre scene outside their windows, which took place at about 8am.

'I woke up to what I thought was noise from some construction, but I looked down to see this young woman stomping on the top of a taxi. She seemed hysterical,' said an eyewitness who lives on the 10th floor of the block, who gave his name only as Mr Letchumanan.

Police said they received a call at 8.45am yesterday, and arrived to find the woman still on top of the CityCab taxi. She was arrested for disorderly behaviour. The cabby did not want to be interviewed, but said in his statement to the police that the woman had flagged down his taxi and then climbed on top of it when he stopped his vehicle.

Eyewitnesses said the woman was screaming in Mandarin but they could not make out what she was saying. She was seen jumping on the cab's roof and kicking its advertisement signboard until it broke.

Mrs Joanna Ho, 33, who watched the incident from her flat on the block's 15th floor, said the woman climbed down at one point and quarrelled with the taxi driver. She then lay down in the middle of the road, causing a traffic build-up, and chased after a car before climbing on top of the taxi again

-Strait Times