Changi Airport staffers had their Monday morning blues dispelled by a man who climbed on top of a check-in counter and refused to go down.
The hullaballoo started at 9am at Terminal 3, when a 32-year-old Vietnamese man clambered up the roof of the counter and stood there with his umbrella and two packed cardboard boxes. A witness speaking to Shin Min Daily News mentioned that the agitated man then took off his shirt and waved his umbrella at the airport and police officers, who were coaxing him to stop his nonsense.
Melbournian tourist Charlotte Corday was on hand to provide live updates and commentary on the whole folderol.
The Airport Emergency Service even deployed an inflatable air-bag near the check-in counter in case he decided to jump down to the arrival hall — which is really not an activity that the Singapore Tourism Board would want to include in its brochures. It took two hours, but the man eventually came down on his own before getting cuffed and taken away.
It is believed that the man had thought he was being sent to Dubai to work, but he realised that he was just being repatriated back to Vietnam, says The New Paper. Despite his little stunt, all operations in the airport went like clockwork without disruption — and that’s why it’s the world’s best for four years in a row.
