Woman finds faeces smeared in Queenstown lift: 'Someone must have been very desperate'

A Queenstown resident was left gagging after checking on reports from her neighbour of faeces in the lift — only to find it smeared in a corner and the entire cabin reeking.

A TikTok video uploaded on Wednesday (Sept 2) by Queena Ong shows her and one of her younger sisters walking towards the lift at her HDB block. 

"Somebody sh*t in the lift," she captioned in the video. "No hate, I was just genuinely curious (to see) what it looked like. We all sh*t our pants."

The 26-year-old content creator told AsiaOne that the incident occurred at Block 160 Mei Ling Street at around 11.30pm on Aug 31. 

She recalled that she was on the first floor, about to take the lift upstairs, when her neighbour stopped her and told her not to use it because there was "something in the lift". 

She initially thought he was referring to the seventh lunar month, more commonly known as the Hungry Ghost Month, which scared her. 

"After further probing, when he said someone shat in the lift, I cracked up laughing," recalled Ong. 

She then took the stairs home and shared the news with her family, but only one of her younger sisters was interested in checking it out. 

"At the start, I held my breath so I couldn’t smell anything but visually I was slightly amused," said Ong. 

After the video ended, she said she couldn't hold her breath anymore and took a big breath, describing the smell as "imagine your own lao sai (Hokkien for diarrhoea)". 

'I haven't taken the lift for three days'

Ong said that she did not report the incident but by the next morning, the lift had been cleaned. 

Another video shared with AsiaOne shows Ong the following day checking out the lift and found that it had been cleaned. 

However, she admitted that she has still not used it as she was uncomfortable with the idea of residual bacteria left on the floor, handles or lift buttons. 

"So far, I haven't taken the lift for three days," said Ong. "It's just the thought of it ... it's like eating insects, it's not that bad but it still messes with your mind."

She added that she has never experienced any similar incidents before.

"This is a first. But no hate, someone must have been very desperate and couldn’t hold it in anymore.

"I’m sure we all have experienced times in our life where we cannot control something."

AsiaOne has contacted Tanjong Pagar Town Council for more information. 

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