17/07/2019
- Woman jumped over barriers at Guangzhou South station and wedged foot in the gap between train and platform before police dragged her away
- Traveller was worried she would be late for the work the next morning after turning up too late to catch the last train to a city hundreds of kilometres away
The woman begged railway staff to let her board the train. Photo: Handout
A woman has been detained after trying to stop a high-speed train from leaving a station in southern China by sticking her foot in the gap between the train and the platform.
The woman, identified only by her surname Wong, arrived at Guangzhou South station at around 11.20pm on Sunday with her brother and a friend and were told they were too late to catch the last train to Changsha South, around 700km (435 miles) to the north.
Wong tried to convince railway workers to let them board the train because she was worried about being late for work the next day, Guangzhou Daily reported.
Footage from the station’s surveillance cameras showed that after arguing with staff, the group jumped over the security barriers and ran up to the train.
Wong started banging on the windows, shouting “open the door”, before sticking her foot in the gap between the train and the platform.
Railway staff and her companions tried to calm her down, but she refused to listen.
“Get up, the train is about to depart so we cannot open the door. The door won’t open!” they told her. “You can still take the next train, get up first.”
“No, I don’t want the next train, you can do it,” Wong said. “Please, I just want to get on this train.”
The woman said she was worried about missing work the next day. Photo: Thepaper.cn
After a few minutes police were called and dragged her away from the train.
She was given nine days’ detention for disturbing order in a public place and impeding the normal flow of traffic, according to online news platform Guancha Syndicate. Her companions were given a disciplinary warning.
Although the train had only been delayed by seven minutes, some web users expressed anger at her behaviour.
“These kind of people should be blacklisted! What about the time of other passengers on the train?” one Weibo user said.
“Now she is late for nine days, she does not need to go to work any more,” another wrote.
Source: SCMP
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18/05/2019
- Man hits glass with emergency hammer because ‘he had been drinking and felt ill’
The train passenger tried to smash a hole in the door glass to let in some fresh air, according to Chinese media. Photo: CNR
Chinese railway police detained a passenger after he tried to smash the door window of a high-speed train to “get some fresh air” according to mainland media reports.
The 30-year-old man, identified only by his surname Xu, said he tried and failed to unlock the door and then decided to break the glass with an emergency hammer because he had been drinking and felt sick, China National Radio reported on Saturday.
Xu tried to smash the door after mechanical failure had forced the Beijing-bound train from Shanghai to stop at the main railway station in Jinan in Shandong province on Tuesday.
He said the train had been stranded for half an hour when he became impatient and wanted to have some fresh air, according to the report.
A Chinese train passenger attacked the door glass of a high-speed train as it was stranded in Jinan. Photo: CNR
Surveillance footage showed the man pulling on the door handle before hitting the glass with an emergency hammer mounted on a train wall.
Train staff quickly intervened and stopped Xu, who was taken into police custody after the train arrived in Beijing.
“I just smashed it once. I assumed this would allow air to come in, so I stopped,” Xu was quoted as saying.
“I felt unwell at that moment because I had been drinking at lunchtime. I did it on impulse.”
He was detained for allegedly intentionally damaging property, an offence that could lead to up to three years in jail.
The incident comes just a few months after a woman
to smash the window of a moving train on the way from Beijing to Qingdao.
The woman had been arguing with her boyfriend and hit the window in a fit of pique, according to media reports.
She was charged with criminal damage and sentenced to five days in detention.
Source: SCMP
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