Jurong West fight: Man throws durian at head of another who walks away and returns with knife
Durian as a weapon?
Three men were arrested after a fracas in the midst of crates of durians for sale near Block 964 Jurong West Street 91 on July 11 evening.
Stomper Michael alerted Stomp to a video of the incident, which shows a shirtless man arguing with a man in a white shirt and another man in an orange shirt.
It escalated when the orange-shirt man pushed the shirtless man, who lost his balance and fell backwards.
That was when he started throwing punches and the white-shirt man retaliated in kind as others tried to break up the fight.
The orange-shirt man then picked up a small durian from a crate and threw it at the shirtless man's head while the latter was still being assailed by the white-shirt man.
After throwing his last punch at the white-shirt man, the shirtless man walked away to pick up a large knife from a stack of crates and headed back towards his opponents but was stopped by three other men, who convinced him to turn back.
The shirtless man can later be seen sitting on a chair recovering from the fight.
In response to a Stomp query, the police said they received a call for assistance at the location at about 7.45pm.
Two of the men, aged 52 and 58, were conscious when taken to the hospital.
They, along with the third man, 30, were arrested for affray.
The argument may have started because the shirtless man, who owned a fruit and vegetable stall, was unhappy that the queue for a durian stall was blocking the way to his stall, reported Shin Min Daily News.
The orange-shirt man and the white-shirt man were the father-and-son owners of the durian stall.
Police investigations are ongoing.
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