They are just a mode of transportation for the hoi polloi in Singapore.

They can smell funny sometimes. Their air-conditioning can be super cold. Or not working. Worse, they can be infrequent regularly.

You wouldn't take them if you had the money chance, but you've boarded enough of SBS and SMRT buses in this lifetime, so much so you wouldn't think twice about them once you get off.

Therefore, I'd bet you didn't know that at the end of their service life, these public transportation devices are taken away to a dank metal trash heap and torn asunder.

No lifetime service medal. No retirement benefits. No dignity in disposal.

Just good old fashion rip-the-crap-out-of-it.

This rare sight of a bus getting scrapped has been caught on camera by an enthusiast who goes by the moniker glitchFan2428 on YouTube.

The funny thing about his bus-scrapping videos is that even though they receive relatively little views -- between 6,000 and 10,000 in the last six months of going up on YouTube -- there have been a substantially large number of disapproving downvotes: Something like 9 downvotes for every 45 upvotes.

Apparently, going by the comments below the videos, there are people in Singapore -- petrosexuals mainly -- who feel that it is a pity and are strongly against destroying the chassis of buses that go out of service. They would rather have them preserved, for whatever reasons, nobody really knows.

However, maybe some of you will find poetry in their destruction.

Enjoy.

SBS Transit double-decker bus:

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SMRT bendy bus:

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