Netizen are divided by a viral video showing three schoolboys sitting on the floor in front of a 7-Eleven outlet at an MRT station speaking with several adults including a station staff member. She said something about cooperating, to which one of the boys replied:"We are trying to cooperate...
" The station staff member tried to de-escalate the situation, but was interrupted by an elderly man who stepped forward and told the boy:"You're in the wrong, you know?" Another elderly woman, wearing a 7-Eleven shirt, then came out of the convenience store and asked the boys to stand up. By the end of the video, the boys had been surrounded by the four elderly people and the station staff member. The 63-second video was shared online on Feb 22 by Tiagong with the caption:"This ah boy so young so rude already ah." But other netizens faulted how the grown-ups approached the boys. One pointed out:"You have to see he screamed out his fear to how the ah ma talked and a few of them attacking the
Viral Video Schoolboys 7-Eleven MRT Station Controversy Netizens Behavior Grown-Ups