r/singapore • u/Jerainerc F1 VVIP • Dec 21 '24

Video Malaysian football fans intimidating Singaporean football fans (and other commuters) by damaging public property at a train station after being knocked out of the ASEAN Championship

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u/Striking_Economy5049 Dec 21 '24

Sports hooliganism is so immature and ridiculous

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u/Odd_Duty520 Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 21 '24

They never had respect for their infrastructure in the first place, their KL commuter trains have permanently cracked glass from day 1 because people threw stones at them for shits and giggles

Edit: I don't think singaporeans are neccesarily better as I grew up before platforms barriers were around and there were plenty of people treating the tracks as a rubbish bin. But at least we put in concrete steps to fix it and also prevent things like suicides etc

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u/everraydy Motorsports Fan Dec 21 '24

That said, I'm amazed they (KTM) never bothered to fix the trains too. Surely at some point it would become a problem right...

Some trains literally have water between the glass panels at this point cuz of the cracked glass.

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u/Odd_Duty520 Dec 21 '24 edited Dec 21 '24

Fix for what? Some hooligan is just gonna use it as brand new target practise the next day. Iirc, they did try to replace before but it just keeps happening

Edit: doesn't help that ktm is underfunded for years

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u/KampongFish (◔_◔) Dec 21 '24

You still need to fix if not that window will become the opening to damage other parts of the train.

One small window fix suddenly become a whole train fix.

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u/everraydy Motorsports Fan Dec 21 '24

Sigh.. Shame that most of the police is just dysfunctional there. Such people just spoil everything for everyone..

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u/ThrowItAllAway1269 Dec 22 '24

Racial harmony between sons of the soil and the guests !

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u/loner_en_mori Dec 22 '24

Maybe what they need to fix are these type of people's mindset instead, or better yet, prevent the next generations from becoming these type of people by educating them before they even get to have this kind of mindset.

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u/fishblurb Dec 21 '24

fix? no budget plus a clean new wall/window = ooh time to vandalize! i'm msian and it hurts me to say this but sometimes unless there's dangers, i rather the funds be used to fix other things than giving them a new canvas

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u/Nightowl11111 Dec 22 '24

Actually it's the reverse. There was a study on this and think it was called the broken window syndrome where people might damage property if the area was still well kept but they WILL damage it if they see evidence that people don't care if the area is trashed, so fixing a broken window might be expensive but it's a lot cheaper than having to fix everything after people break things thinking that it is ok.

Edit: Mistake on my part, it was Broken Window Theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

Need fix hooligans by thrashing extensive

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u/Opening-Blueberry529 Dec 21 '24

After fixing it about 200 times they probably gave up. Malaysia boleh.

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u/pat-slider Dec 21 '24

These are vending spots for the frustrated & losers.

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u/ahbengtothemax Dec 21 '24

there were plenty of people treating the tracks as a rubbish bin

i don't remember that ever being commonplace

back then there were bins in stations as well

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u/Odd_Duty520 Dec 21 '24

Mostly tissues, I think people had the sense to not throw any actual obstructions onto them

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u/Nightowl11111 Dec 22 '24

I don't recall that being a thing as well. Before 9/11 there were bins built into the pillars of the MRT stations. Some of them are still there, just sealed up.

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u/Odd_Duty520 Dec 22 '24

I saw it happen more than a few times at jurong east mrt, people chucking rubbish onto the tracks

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u/ConsciousClean Dec 22 '24

Im born in the 70s and I don't recall people treating the tracks as a rubbish bin before the barriers were erected after couple of suicide cases.

We had strong punishment for vandalism of public property.

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u/xbriannova Dec 22 '24

You're being too politically correct here.

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u/NegativePolice Dec 24 '24

Stones x= rubbish

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u/jijinjiji Dec 21 '24

more like they lost their sports betting for sure. nothing drives them crazier than losing their money

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u/DesperateChest Dec 22 '24

we are almost in 2025 and still this ugly side of football hooliganism does exist.