June 2, 2006
Angry man over loud cellphone call becomes hit movie on youtube
Never, never ask a passenger on a Hong Kong bus - after a long day's work - to lower his voice while talking on a cell phone and NEVER EVER get mad in public!
What a nightmare for the angry man in this youtube video, not unlike the South Korean Dog Poop Girl - shamed globally after bloggers had a field day when her picture refusing to clean up her dog's mess on a subway floor - was published online.
Jeremy Wagstaff for Loose Wire blogs this story published in Apple Daily via InMediaHK
The incident occurred on the top deck of a Number 68X Kowloon bus on April 29. A young man observed that the middle-aged person in front of him was talking too loud on the mobile telephone. So he tapped the man's shoulder and asked him to keep the volume down. This led to a vigorous response, including a string of obscenities.
The entire proceedings were recorded by another passenger named John using a mobile camera phone.
The film was uploaded on YouTube and then seen by the whole wide world. As of May 19, 1.2 million people have watched the video clip! (Update: 1.9 million as of May 26; ETTV cited a 5.9 million figure on May 27, which probably combines all the editions).
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