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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).
Fake Wedding Fools Korean Media
Here are two articles with opposing examples on the reliability of citizen reporters/bloggers. The first one (Fake Wedding Fools Korean Media) describes a mock wedding on a Tokyo subway captured on cameraphone which spread like wildfire on blogs, and was then picked up by the main stream media as a true story. The second (Bloggers: an army of irregulars), is one journalist's experience of how bloggers have been valuabe source for digging up the truth. He gives several examples, one of which is how a blogger was responsible for having tracked down the origin of a fake cartoon which fueled the furore over the characterisation of Muhammad in a Danish paper.
Mobile Phone Sousveillance In Action Again
The idea of mobile sousveillance/coveillance/equiveillance has got legs, reports Mobhappy, referring to a Flickr post by a woman that says she snapped a picture of a man that exposed himself in front of her on the New York City subway.
Netizen Debate Ensues Over 'Dog Poop Girl'
Following yesterday's post on Korean bloggers having a field day over the behavior of a young woman who refused to clean up the mess after her dog pooped on the floor of a subway, OhMyNews explores how the Internet and netizens should respond to anti-social public activity.
"dog-sh..-girl" a test of the Internet's Power to Shame
It began in a subway train with a girl whose dog made a mess on the train floor. When nearby elders told her to clean up the mess, she basically told them to f... off. One of the train riders took pictures of the incident with a camera phone of her and posted it, without any masking, on a popular website, which started a nationwide witchhunt.
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