SINGAPORE: Intoxicated and upset at the waiter for asking him to lower the volume of the music coming from his portable speaker, a bar customer took aim and threw a shot glass at the waiter, bruising his jaw.
When Chin took out a portable speaker and started playing loud music, the 26-year-old waiter asked him to turn it down.AdvertisementLater, when the waiter was attending to customers at the table next to Chin's, Chin suddenly picked up a shot glass, stood up and threw it at the waiter, hitting his jaw.
Chin also used a"weapon" in the form of the shot glass and was voluntarily intoxicated at the time, he said. The shot glass had been used to contain alcohol served to Chin and his friends, and it was"not as if the accused had gone to look for a weapon", said Mr Lim. The judge said that while the defence had argued that it was a"momentary lapse of judgment" on Chin's part, Chin's actions were enough to bring about four charges involving three victims.