This is what you do when you witness something disturbing — alert the authorities and write a formal complaint.
That is what actor and stuntman Hanz Monefiero Medina did when he was harassed by a Comfort taxi driver last Friday.
You might know Medina from a certain perfurmery on Arab Street (he is a perfume maker by day). “I am a man who happens to look androgynous and have my long wet hair out and I am not a transgender nor a transvestite,” he explains.
On his way to an afternoon martial arts class, he hailed a taxicab on Owen Street. The driver, upon seeing him, stopped his vehicle and made an offensive gesture (“a joke usually made on transvestites”) — a limp hand which he rocked back and forth.
And it didn’t stop there.
“The Indian man drove away but, to my surprise, he made a U-turn further down at Owen Road and passed me again,” recalls Medina. The driver mocked him again.
In his complaint letter to Comfort, Medina wrote: “I felt really disturbed. No one should go through this on how someone looks or even if someone is whoever they are as a person. This is a mental disease and outright bullying. I hope this man will be warned for judging potential customers in the future or I will bring this to the social media and make it viral to good journalist sources that I have.”
An executive from Comfort Delgro replied this afternoon with an apology and assurance “that we have spoken to this driver, and rebuked him for his disgraceful actions towards you on that afternoon…We have also issued him an official warning for failing to pick up a passenger despite his taxi being available for hire, which will now be filed in his performance record. Going forward, we will now monitor him closely and any similar transgressions committed by him can result in the termination of his hiring contract with us.”
Source: http://singapore.coconuts.co
