Exactly one month ago, a financial advisor allegedly stood in front of a cab to stop the driver from moving off after a traffic dispute in Scotts Road, with tragic results.
Then on Sunday night, an accountant put himself in harm's way when he put himself in front of a moving car.
All because he was too carried away by his outrage to realise what a dangerous stunt it was, especially since he was just metres from a car driven by a man who was allegedly drunk.
Mr Steven Yong did this because the driver allegedly tried to leave the scene after crashing into four cars at Eunos Crescent just before 10pm on Sunday.
Mr Yong's car, a three-year-old Toyota Altis, was the first to be hit.
HEARD LOUD BANG
Said the 31-year-old: "I was in the kitchen drying my clothes when I suddenly heard a long bang. I looked out of my window and was shocked to see the front of my car wrecked by another car. I grabbed a T-shirt and quickly ran downstairs.
He got even more agitated when he saw the driver trying to leave the carpark.
Mr Yong ran towards the car, saw the damage on another car, and planted himself right in front of the moving car.
He said he was about three metres from the car. "At that point, I was too angry to think straight. I'd expected the driver to stop his car and explain his actions. But he drove off instead, which was very irresponsible. I was also just trying to safeguard my property in this case, he said.
Mr Yong said the car was still moving when he got in front of it. It was then that the Scotts Road incident on 9 Apr flashed across his mind.
In that incident, relief driver Lee Yuet Kong allegedly drove his Comfort cab away with Mr Alex Lim Wee Chong on the bonnet, then braked abruptly, causing the 30-year-old to fall backwards and hit his head on the road.
Both vehicles had pulled over beside Shaw House after an earlier collision along Paterson Road and the two drivers had started arguing.
When Lee got back into his taxi and allegedly tried to drive off, Mr Lim, wanting to get Lee's particulars, stood in front of the cab.
Mr Lim remains in a coma at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, reported The Straits Times on 28 Apr, while Lee is out on bail after being charged.
Said Mr Yong: "I then realised that it was a very dangerous thing to do. I was in a very vulnerable position.
"I thought of my family and how I shouldn't be doing this.
"It's just a few thousand dollars, nothing compared to my life."
He got married just last year.
That was when Mr Yong decided to move a few steps back, to give himself and the car more distance.
But all this while, he was shouting and gesticulating at the driver to get out of his car.
When the driver stepped out of his car, Mr Yong shouted at him: "Do you know what you've done??
The driver allegedly replied in Hokkien: "I'm sleepy"
Mr Yong showed the driver the damage he had left in his wake.
There were four damaged vehicles in the carpark two vans, Mr Yong's car and another sedan.
One van and the other sedan looked like they suffered the most damage, with the sedan sandwiched between the two vans.
LOOKED SHOCKED
Mr Yong said that the driver did not say anything much during the whole episode, but looked shocked at the damage he had caused.
At that point, a crowd had already gathered to see what was going on.
He said a neighbour pulled him aside and told him: "Don't do this kind of thing, it's very dangerous. No point putting your life in danger."
Mr Yong went to a nearby Neighbourhood Police Post to make a report and a patrol car arrived shortly.
But he felt so guilty about the risk he took that he confessed and apologised to his wife later that night.
His wife, who didn't want to be named, told us that he shouldn't have done what he did, but all is forgiven.
Said Mr Yong: "Given a chance, I would stand by the side of the car instead of in front. It's too dangerous and not a wise thing to do."
A neighbour we spoke to, Madam Teng Ah Hong, also said Mr Yong shouldn't have tried that stunt.
Madam Teng, 69, owns one of the vans wrecked by the driver. Said the private bus-driver in Mandarin: "I heard what he (Mr Yong) did. It was a dangerous thing to do, but thank goodness he's okay.
"By the time I came downstairs, there were already many people in the carpark. My van wasn't badly damaged."
The police said they were informed of an accident involving five vehicles in a car-park near block 9, Eunos Crescent around 10pm on Sunday.
They said no one was injured and a man in his early 40s was arrested for drink driving.
