Uncle pats a stranger's child, gets thrown to the ground by her father — who's really in the wrong?
At a coffee shop in Roxy Square along East Coast Road, a 73-year-old wanton noodle hawker uncle briefly patted a young girl on the head while steadying himself near her table — a gesture he later said was simply because "she was very cute." The girl's mother stepped in, and when the father arrived moments later, he grabbed the elderly man and threw him to the ground in front of shocked onlookers. The uncle was hospitalised for a check-up and his stall closed for days, while his family lodged a police report and the father is now under investigation for assault. Yet the story has taken a softer turn since: the elderly hawker says he doesn't want to "cause any trouble" and wishes to let the father off, and the father has reportedly brought his daughter back to the coffee shop to encourage the uncle to keep interacting with young kids. The clip has divided Singapore — some say an elderly stranger has no business touching a child without asking, others say no gesture, however innocent, justifies throwing a 73-year-old to the floor.
