To pee or not to pee, that is the question dividing netizens in the wake of a clip showing a young child urinating on the MTR and a mother cleaning it up.
It’s really more a question of sympathy — totally considered making the pun sympathpee here — and how much should be given to the parents of the little girl who left a trail of urine through a train as it traveled through Tai Wo toward either Lok Ma Chau or Lo Wu, near the mainland border
Not much, thought several passengers who be can be heard complaining while a father holds his daughter, her pants pulled down, as she relieves herself.
As this is happening, the girls’ mom squats down and starts wiping up the multiple trails of urine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwQFaSjnzA4
“Are you serious? You’re letting her pee here?” one onlooker says.
“It wasn’t on purpose, I’m sorry,” the mom responds in Mandarin.
As she finishes cleaning up, the mom can be heard telling the daughter that “it’s OK” and “don’t worry.”
At one point in the video, another commuter hands the mom a plastic bag for her to put the dirty tissues in. That’s thoughtful.
Netizens were divided over the video ,with some berating the parents for allowing the kid to urinate on the train, while others said the mom should be cut some slack.
“How could they confuse a train carriage for a toilet?” asked one netizen.
“They should try doing that in Singapore; they wouldn’t get away with it there,” remarked another.
Others were a bit more sympathetic to the parents.
“I don’t agree that peeing on the train is OK, but at least she cleaned it up,” said one commenter.
“The child looked really embarrassed about it, and the parents did the best they could in that situation,” said another.
This is far from the first case of a person presumably from the mainland relieving themselves in a public place in Hong Kong. In July, an 8-year-old boy pooped in the station concourse at Tsim Sha Tsui.
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