For all its benefits, public transport can sometimes bring out the worst in people, whether it be sparring over a MTR seat or terrorizing bus passengers in a bout of road rage.
And in the latest instalment of people losing their cool in the public transport pressure cooker, we bring you this intense tramway throw-down between two women in a stationary streetcar.
Video of the fight was posted on social media this morning. Police confirmed to Coconuts HK that they received a report at around 9:50pm on Wednesday evening of a fight breaking out in a tram heading towards Pennington Street in Wan Chai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pppvbkwNmeU&frags=pl%2Cwn
What is clear, however, is that shit got pretty heated.
In the video, the long-haired woman can be heard provoking the woman in white and daring her to hit her. As things devolve into fisticuffs, two fellow passengers attempt to intervene, telling the pair to calm down and to stop.
The woman in white appears to leave the tram, while police come aboard and order the long-haired woman to sit down.
An officer then suggests a possible factor in the fracas.
“I think you’re drunk,” he tells the woman, who is not impressed at being impugned.
“Me? What do you mean drunk,” she says, before wrestling with policemen, who force her back down onto the seat.
The officer holding her down can be heard yelling “can you control yourself? We need to cuff you, do you understand?”
The woman responds that she can control herself, and later asks the officer what his police number is.
The video has started picking up views, with netizens curious about where the woman in white from the first confrontation ended up and whether she was arrested.
Others were critical of the way police manhandled the long-haired woman.
Police told Coconuts HK that a 46-year-old woman — the long-haired one — was taken to Ruttonjee Hospital. She had alcohol in her system but sustained no injuries, and that the other female passenger left before officers arrived.
The incident is being treated as a case of fighting in a public place, and no one has been arrested.
*This article has been updated to include comments from the police.
