We all now know about the controversial hand baggage incident involving CY Leung, which led at least 1,000 protesters to participate in a sit-in at the airport. But did you know about some of the lesser known protests involving the Chief Exec?
Feb 3 – While his chauffered car is stuck in traffic, CY Leung takes a taxi and stuffs a used tissue inside the door handle. Protesters swarm the taxi, furious that our red and green symbols of the city are being treated as public waste-bins by the politicians enacting Beijing’s plan to turn HK into a trash island.
Feb 9 – While in a Wellcome, CY Leung coughs and fails to cover his mouth. Angry protesters dressed in head-to-toe hazmat suits stage a “quarantine” in the supermarket, stating that the food there may be contaminated and not fit for human consumption. Chinese netizens criticise the protesters after they are seen eating at a nearby fruit stand where the owner is spitting into the trash can, but are widely ignored, as we all know “netizens” is a stupid term to describe lazy people who write things on the internet.
March 15 – CY Leung stops to tie his shoe outside Government House. Furious protesters stage a sit-in closing down the sidewalk. De facto protest spokeswoman Angela Ng points out the source of the disturbance: “These greedy politicians will stop anywhere, anyhow, no matter who might be in front or behind them. Imagine if I were walking down the street playing Candy Crush, as I normally do, which means I’m not looking at the road. Suddenly I trip over CY because he was inconsiderate enough to bend down to tie his shoe instead of asking his helper to do it, and I fly in the air and tumble over. At the same time, imagine that two people walking in the opposite direction get tripped over by me, and that three people walking opposite from them then trip over them! We could have millions of people injured just because these greedy senseless politicians can only stop to think about themselves.”
About the Realist: Yalun Tu is a writer based in Hong Kong. He wrote The Straight Man column for HK Magazine, and TV scripts for HBO Asia, Channel V, and Fox Movies Premium. You can contact him at yalun.tu@gmail.com or @yaluntu on Twitter.
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