Last Friday wasn’t a very Good Friday for one cabbie whose car engine started catching fire at a carpark.
Luckily for the taxi driver, some good samaritans helped out however they could to extinguish the swelling blaze emerging from the car’s engine. But the award for the best samaritan would have to go to a man who was on his way to a mosque for Friday prayers — he didn’t think twice about risking his life in his attempt to put out the flames.
This, according to eyewitness Evian Fann Quek, despite two “explosions” heard from the car. Here’s the dude trying to get close to the fire, armed with a tiny extinguisher.
Upon closer inspection, he presumably thought it’d be easier to tackle the fire from under the bumper. Even though he was dressed in his baju for Friday prayers, he crawled down on the floor, aided later by a police officer who arrived at the scene and passed the man a bigger fire extinguisher. Other members of the public streamed in to the scene with buckets of water.
When that attempt failed, the cop had to force the man away from the flames for his own safety. Then he went back to the cab to douse the fire. Talk about commitment.
It’s unclear where exactly this took place, or what happened afterwards, but we’re guessing that the man had no choice but to go back home for a change of clothes out of his Friday best.
