THE road rage between a man and a Comfort taxi driver has drawn sharp attacks from Netizens on the man who filmed the heated exchange and later uploaded it onto YouTube and sent it to STOMP.

The man claimed that he had asked the taxi driver politely to move his cab which was parked on the wrong side of the road in front of one of the staff entrances at MediaCorp offices on Caldecott Hill.

According to the man, the unhappy cabby then replied with expletives and it escalated into a shouting match.

Cisco officers later came to the scene to stop the argument. The man in the video had threatened several times to call the police to arrest the taxi driver. He also asked the cabby to leave.

The taxi driver finally drove off when the man had asked Cisco officers to take down his particulars.

The three-and-a-half minute video has since been uploaded by three different users on YouTube and has received about 9,000 hits since it was first posted on April 14.

But most of the comments posted by Netizens on straitstimes.com and YouTube were sympathetic to the taxi driver.

They also put most of the blame on the man who made the clip, saying he was abusive, rude and uncivilised.

williampcwong said 'the taxi driver was wrong to park or wait on the other side of the road' but the real rude bully was the man who filmed the video clip.

tuiniasin agreed: 'The driver had self-disciplined himself by not stepping out of his taxi and challenge the bully. He made ComfortDelgro proud.'

Some posts also called for action to be taken against the video maker, instead of the taxi driver.

'I want action to be taken against this person making the video. He clearly thinks he is above the law, and was heard instructing the officers on what to do. His boorish behaviour cannot be condoned and is worse than the taxi driver's,' said yeusmarn.

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