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title: "Tampines resident heartbroken after flower pot smashes parked Honda: ‘Why must they do this to my car?’"
url: "/singapore-seen/tampines-resident-heartbroken-after-flower-pot-smashes-parked-honda-why-must-they-do-my-car"
published: "2026-10-20T06:10:23.000Z"
updated: "2026-10-20T06:10:23.000Z"
section: "Singapore Seen"
authors: ["Farah Daley"]
tags: ["vandalism","flower pot","Honda","damage","carpark","Tampines"]
---

# Tampines resident heartbroken after flower pot smashes parked Honda: ‘Why must they do this to my car?’

A Tampines resident was left heartbroken after discovering a flower pot had landed on her parked car, shattering its rear windscreen and leaving her wondering where it could have come from.

Stomper Ida, 58, discovered the damage at the open-air carpark of Block 827 Tampines Street 81 on Oct 18 at about 9am.

Speaking to Stomp at the scene on Oct 19, the freelance masseuse said she first learnt of the incident when her helper, who had gone to the market, returned and showed her a video of the damaged car.

“I was so surprised, so sad,” she said.

The rear windscreen of Ida’s Honda Vezel was badly damaged, with a large hole on the left and cracks extending across the glass to the right.

When Ida opened the boot to show Stomp the damage, the crunch of broken glass could be heard as shards fell from the frame.

She appeared stunned by the sound and said it was the first time she had opened the boot since discovering the flower pot.

Soil from the pot was also scattered on the ground behind the vehicle.

![Tampines car damage, flower pot incident, vandalised car](https://cassette.sphdigital.com.sg/image/stomp/583b12cd600578f63e13313d4044f0e453e2b8d433d6daf51495b4ace8953527)
*Soil from the pot was scattered on the ground behind the vehicle.*

Ida said police had taken away the flower pot found at the scene as part of their investigations.

But where the pot came from remains a mystery.

Stomp observed that the nearest residential block was approximately 5m from the parked car, with no flower pots visibly placed outside the windows of nearby units.

“I was surprised where the flower pot came from because all the neighbours don’t have flower pots,” Ida said.

Her husband had parked the car at about midnight before the damage was discovered the following morning.

Ida suspects the incident may have occurred in the early hours of Oct 18, although the exact time remains unknown.

## ‘We cannot move our car’

Beyond the shock, Ida said the incident had disrupted both her and her husband’s livelihoods.

“I’m a freelance masseuse. Every day, I drive to my clients,” she said.

Her husband also uses the car for part-time private-hire driving.

With the vehicle unable to be driven following the incident, both were left without their usual means of getting to work.

“Yesterday, we could not move our car,” she said, adding that the vehicle remained at the carpark when Stomp visited on Oct 19.

Ida said police were investigating the incident and that she was awaiting instructions from her insurer before arranging for repairs.

She added that she was scheduled to bring the car for repairs later that day.

She estimated that insurance would cover most of the repair costs, although she might still have to pay about $100 out of pocket.

Ida, who has lived in the area for about a year, said she had never experienced anything like this before.

“Never happened in my life!” she exclaimed.

## ‘Why must they do this to my car?’

Ida said she was deeply disappointed and could not understand why her car had been damaged.

“I do nothing to people,” she said. “Why, why must [they] do this to my car?”

She wondered whether someone might have deliberately targeted her vehicle, although the circumstances surrounding the incident have yet to be established.

She added that Tampines Town Council is assisting her.

In response to Stomp’s queries, the police confirmed that a report had been lodged.

Stomp has contacted Tampines Town Council for more information.