If there is one thing that makes Hongkongers angry, it’s the city’s property market, as we saw earlier this week when a 40-feet-shoebox went on the market for HK$2,900 (US$371) a month.
But if there is anyone that perfectly embodies how most of us feel about property prices, it’s this guy.
Sure, his actions may be attributable to a “personal dispute,” according to the company’s owner, but there’s some great symbolism on display for the ever-growing amount of people priced out of the market.
The video posted online yesterday shows a middle-aged man in a white shirt kicking and hitting the windows of a real estate agency with an office chair.
According to on.cc, the incident took place outside a branch of Midland Realty on Belcher’s Street in the Mid-levels.
The website reported that a 45-year-old woman surnamed Tang immediately called the police, but when they arrived, the middle-aged man had disappeared.
The incident is being treated as criminal damage, and officers are looking into the motive behind the vandalism.
The website reported that the middle-aged man damaged a poster board and at least five chairs, amounting to about HK$5,000 (US$639) worth of damage.
Midland Realty could not confirm what precisely started the fracas, but said that the incident was because of a personal dispute, and had nothing to do with the business of the company.
