Temasek Polytechnic Bumblebee scuffle & taking off shirt in class, explained

A day in the life of Temasek Polytechnic.

Belmont Lay | April 19, 2018, 04:09 PM

A Temasek Polytechnic class was disrupted on April 18, 2018, after a blonde-haired student dressed in Bumblebee colours made a lot of noise and got into scuffles and shouting matches with other students, staff and, security.

Videos making rounds

The cause of the real-life hullabaloo is not immediately known based on what can be gleaned from a series of videos posted on Facebook.


This video below is not related to the incident, but it showed Bumblebee shooting a live video of himself while a class was ongoing in the background:

It is a testament to what he had done before during curriculum time.


However, in total, some 18 minutes worth of footage can be found here -- shot from various angles -- once they were all strung together.

Cause of fiasco

Based on a supposed first-hand account, the entire fiasco started after Bumblebee was finally told off by another student. This was after he had allegedly been disruptive in class for the past few days.

Bumblebee was particularly triggered because the other student mentioned his ITE background.

According to the account of what happened, Bumblebee is 21 years old, although this information cannot be verified.

However, at the end of the 18-minute video, Bumblebee could be seen addressing the students, where he talked about how difficult it was for him to make it to polytechnic.

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Based on the YouTube video, this was what happened:

0.01 A student chokes Bumblebee after he made a lot of noise and dared the student to hit him.

1.01 Bumblebee does squatting/ taunting thing, while an adult looks at him wondering if this job is worth it.

1.45 Bumblebee threatens anyone who reports him.

1.58 Students cheer.

2.15 Bumblebee taunts entire class.

2.42 Bumblebee lunges at student who had choked him earlier.

2:54 Bumblebee losing it on lecture stage. Students laugh.

3.14 Lecturer tells him to back off.

3:30 Bumblebee prances around.

3.33 Other adults step in. Students getting bored.

4.08 Bumblebee walks around.

4.30 Bumblebee sits down on lecture stage.

4.34 Video cuts to Red Singlet Guy confronting Bumblebee, telling him he is ugly and needs to brush his teeth.

5.00 Bumblebee says he has retainers already but Red Singlet Guy still has braces.

5.05 Red Singlet Guy challenges Bumblebee to a fight. Red Singlet Guy says, “You ITE, you talk what”. Audience reacts.

5:55 Bumblebee slams Red Singlet Guy’s clothes. Red Singlet Guy says Bumblebee looks like a “blueberry cheesecake”. Crowd goes wild.

6.50 Lecturer tells students to keep quiet, let teachers handle it. And not encourage Bumblebee's behaviour.

7:30 Red Singlet Guy is so done but snaps and challenges Bumblebee to a brawl. Gets escorted out of the hall.

8:08 Female student off-camera tells Bumblebee off for his behavior, tells him to grow up.

8.29 Other students tell Bumblebee to go out

9.22 "Every course surely have one of these people," one student says.

10:20 Other Temasek Poly staff enter the lecture hall.

10:36 A teacher approaches Bumblebee. Bumblebee confronts her about having “mutual respect”. Teacher says something in response that results in all students going nuts.

10.40 In response, students all lose their shit. One shouts: "Alt + F4". (This means a keyboard shortcut command that closes down the active window. A complete shutdown, in other words.)

11:40 Security team enters. Someone shouts: "SPCA!"

12.22 Security surrounds Bumblebee.

13.27 Bumblebee still talking and squatting.

14:09 Bumblebee takes the lecturer’s seat, worn out. Consoled by adults.

15.29 Security surrounds Bumblebee again, this time at the corner.

16:44 Bumblebee gets microphone, makes an impassioned speech about the difficult road he took studying in ITE before entering polytechnic.

17:16 Bumblebee takes off his t-shirt briefly. He is perspiring profusely. “I know here very hot because got me. I’m the hot thing here!” he said. He then said he could earn more money than someone with a degree.

Update:

Bumblebee has been busy updating his Instagram Stories announcing that the media has contacted him for his side of the story:

And he has defended himself by saying he is standing up for ITE students and cannot see why others would flame him: