Watch: Shanghai People Have Had Enough, Berate Chicken-Feet Eating Litterer on Subway

Shanghaiers say no to littering

A video has emerged online that shows a Shanghai Metro commuter confronted by passengers after she was caught spitting out bones from a bag of spicy pickled chicken feet.

The video was shot last Saturday in a Line 2 subway car near Nanjing West Station. While the video doesn’t show the actual littering taking place, it does show the aftermath in which the unidentified woman verbally spars with a number of passengers who accuse her of littering.

The argument itself is an exhausting litany of counter-attacks that don’t exactly follow a consistent train of thought. The woman is heard refuting the verbal attacks with lines like “What is it to you?”, “You’re not a cop,” and “Your eyes are in your ass.” She then proceeds to film the man who is filming her.

A chicken bone can be seen on the floor in the video, as can an open bag of pickled chicken feet in the woman’s hand.

Although there has been no shortage of Shanghai subway fight videos uploaded to the internet, the outpouring of civic pride from Shanghai residents who look down upon littering could be the reason the video has become so popular. A People’s Daily Online Weibo post on the short incident has already received 15,000 up-votes and over 16,000 comments.

Here are a select few:

君心moon:
In incidents like these, the thing that irritates me the most is hearing someone say, “Everybody should refrain from talking.” If this is the case, then what needs to be said never gets said.

小谁家内小谁:
What’s fearsome isn’t that she threw garbage on the subway, but that she doesn’t think she committed a wrong in any way.

哼哼桑:
Whenever these things happen online, some people make pains to urgently stress that the transgressor is not a local. Afterwards, this incident evolves into a case of regional discrimination. What a joke.

喵儿星君:
What a bore. There are people like this everywhere. How did this become a case of regional discrimination? What was it: that Shanghai is somehow this or that, and for whatever reason she isn’t Chinese? Attacks upon people based upon regional differences is an embodiment of low morals.

隔壁家二猴子:
Either this is a (viral marketing stunt) for a cellphone commercial, a chicken feet commercial, or this woman wants to become famous.

简单姐姐66:
All that heavy make-up can’t conceal the ugliness of her heart inside.

Last fall, a number of online videos showed Shanghai Metro passengers fighting with each other over things like taking seats.

Municipal regulations ban eating of any kind on the Shanghai Metro.

Here’s the video:

Charles Liu

The Nanfang's Senior Editor