Bus Four Eyes

Ever since the infamous Bus Uncle incident about a year ago, almost every public altercation within proximity of a camera phone has been recorded and uploaded to the Internet.

But it took a reverse situation to create another sensation.

The video isn't subtitled in English, but the local rag reported the highlights:

"Bus Four Eyes bullies 82-year-old man" ... features a bespectacled young man refusing to give one of his two seats to an elderly man and then calling police ...

The six-minute clip begins shortly after the bus ... is pulled over by police to the astonishment of passengers.

It soon becomes apparent that the man in his twenties refused to remove his bags from the adjacent seat to allow an elderly man to rest his legs.

"He won't let me sit down," says the elderly man, who claims to be 82 years old. "He says I am being hostile so he called the police."

In one of his few comments during the clip, the younger man says, "If you had any manners then I would let you sit" and accuses the old man of lacking culture.

Emotions reach a climax when the younger man is led out by the bus driver to talk to police, causing other passengers to erupt in cheers.

The clip ends with both "Bus Four Eyes" and the elderly man being interviewed separately by police.

With fewer sound bites and profanities than the original "Bus Uncle" video, the short clip has nevertheless received 278 comments. While most viewers lambaste the attitude of the young man, the apathy of fellow passengers and Hong Kong people in general, several raised suspicions about the true age of the elderly man, with some saying he appeared to be in his 60s.

Don't bother reading the comments; many are laced with swearing.

Regardless of the old man's actual age or whether he'd instigated the event, the true problem is the selfishness of everyone else on the bus.

Had someone simply stood up and offered the old boy a seat, this incident never would have happened.

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