Man posts photo accusing couple of feeding macaques in reservoir, gets chided by netizens

Facebook user Nicholas Ho probably thought he was doing a good deed by calling out a couple for feeding macaques at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, and leaving a mess while doing so.

He posted on Complaint Singapore Facebook page on March 21 about the incident.

In his post, he claims that he saw a couple feeding the macaques at the park with their picnic food and leaving rubbish at the area where they were seated. 

However, instead of getting support for his post, many netizens blasted him for jumping to conclusions, and accused him of judging the couple based on the photos alone. 

Many empathised with the couple, arguing that incidents of animals stealing food from people happen all too often in parks.

Many also pointed out that from the photos, the couple looked quite fearful of the macaques going through their items, and it could be because the animals had grabbed their food instead. 

One even said that his little cousin was previously attacked by an aggressive macaque.

Ho has yet to respond to these comments, but it appears that his previous posts were mostly related to littering and a couple of them have received flak from netizens for jumping to conclusions. 

AsiaOne has reached out to Ho for comment. 

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