3 men fight with plastic chairs past midnight in Chinatown, 2 arrested so far

Fight involving 3 men swinging chairs in Chinatown broken up by bystanders, 1 suspect threatens police during arrest

At around 12.20am on 7 Nov, three men brawled in Chinatown, swinging plastic chairs at each other.

Passers-by broke up the scuffle, and police later arrested two of the involved men.

Men fall onto Chinatown road during fight, 1 gets struck by chair

A video from an observing driver showed the events unfolding at Block 34 Upper Cross Street.

A man in a grey shirt grabbed a plastic chair from a nearby coffeeshop and swung it at another man in brown at the roadside.

The attacked man caught and yanked the chair, causing both men to tumble to the ground before he successfully wrestled it away.

Behind him, a man in blue whacked the brown-shirted man in the back with a separate plastic chair.

A driver then stepped out of his car and attempted to break up the melee.

Driver tosses chair out of view after man gets disarmed

Despite the efforts of the driver and other bystanders, the brawl continued as the men kept swinging plastic chairs at each other.

While the man in the brown shirt yelled insults, his opponent lunged forward, thrusting chair legs at him.

After another clash, a woman grabbed onto the man in brown’s chair.

He cussed and tugged on it, sending both of them onto the road and the chair flying off several metres away.

The driver hurried over, grabbed the improvised weapon, and tossed it behind a recycling bin.

Driver offers to call ambulance for man with minor injury

Now disarmed, the man in brown had to fight off the man in blue’s chair onslaught with his hands.

The driver stepped in between them again and attempted to calm them down.

He warned them that they would be taken to the Police Cantonment Complex if they kept fighting. The driver also assumed that the man in brown had gotten drunk.

It seemed to work, and the bystanders kept the men apart.

At one point, the driver noticed that the man in brown had suffered a cut on one of his knuckles.

He offered to call an ambulance for the man, who instead wanted to go home.

The driver thus suggested that he drive the man home, which seemed to cheer the man up.

Men start reignite fight with chairs after getting too close

However, the man in brown headed for the coffeeshop to grab his phone first, putting him in close proximity to the man in blue again.

Tempers flared instantly, and a shouting match erupted before the man in blue struck his rival with the chair.

Bystanders broke up the fight again, with the driver managing to take the weapon away.

The video ended with the driver spotting the man in blue grabbing another chair.

“Walao eh,” he mumbled before having to step in again.

Police tracking down 3rd person involved

The police told MS News that upon their arrival, they found a 37-year-old man who appeared to be intoxicated.

While officers were effecting an arrest, the man hurled vulgarities and threats at the officers. The 37-year-old man was arrested for affray, drunkenness in a public place, and using abusive language against a public servant.

The man was conveyed to the hospital for checks.

Police also arrested a 68-year-old man for affray and are tracing the third person involved.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) stated that they assessed one person for minor injuries, who declined to be taken to the hospital.

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Featured image adapted from Lim Kim Leng on Facebook.