(WATCH) ‘I’m not giving way!’: Video of people stuck in bus doorway goes viral

No one likes queues, but they’re one of those things that keeps the social fabric somewhat stitched together.

Take them away and here’s what you get: a whole bunch of people wedged together in a bus door.

According to on.cc, this particular bus door scrum — video of which has gone viral on social media — followed a banquet on Saturday evening in Fong Ma Po attended by about 1,000 people.

Afterwards, most of the largely middle-aged and elderly diners headed down to a nearby bus stop.

Eager to get home, many in the crowd then tried to force themselves on the bus, before getting a lesson in what happens when several objects try to occupy the same space at the same time.

As the pushing and shoving continued, one woman wearing a red jacket can be heard in the video yelling “I will not give way” to someone in the back, and then yelling “you’ve got my bag!”

At one point, the bus driver can be heard helplessly yelling at those in the scrum.

“If you keep trying to force your way in then we can’t move,” he says, a completely sensible point lost on the increasingly frenzied crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijqHqGraGoQ

The bottleneck was finally broken after one female passenger, who was already aboard the bus, stepped in to help a grey-haired women stuck in the doorway to the vehicle.

Another person can be heard yelling “there’s plenty of room” in a bid to calm down the next few passengers who then, you guessed it, resume trying to force their way onto the bus.

The video has been posted to various different Facebook groups, with one version of the video being viewed more than 45,000 times over the weekend.

Some netizens joked, perhaps ungenerously, that everyone in the scrum must be either mainlanders — accusing them of not knowing how to queue — or that they had watched too much American football or, perhaps, felt like the end of the world was near.

We’re just glad that it did not turn into an ugly fight like last week when three women fighting over a free seat on the train were arrested for fighting in a public place.