Published 15:22 IST, September 24th 2019
Hong Kong: Protesters witness bottle-flip moment at MTR station
Hong Kong protest took a viral turn when while waiting on a Mass Transit railway station an old man flipped a bottle and crowd started to cheer in amazement
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While Hong Kong is raging with protests, seemingly without an end in sight, re is a moment which has gone viral, when a man flipped a bottle and crowd can be seen cheering him on as he walked towards riot police. incident occurred on September 7, last Saturday at same Mass Transit Railway station where an incident of vandalism h occurred earlier. video of incident has gone viral and is being circulated widely on social media networking sites with many hailing him as a hero.
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What is in video?
video shows an old man and a young man sitting and as soon as old man flipped bottle crowd that was waiting started to cheer. Protesters can be seen interacting with man by shaking hands. man later can be seen walking to up to riot police authorities and after talking with bottle-flipper, police started to walk away to humongous cheer of crowd. incident happened at Tung Chung Metro station of Hong Kong city. According to reports, Police closed station on last Saturday after hundreds of residents mobbed station for what protesters. Police closed station last Saturday after hundreds of residents thronged it for what protesters refer to as a "stress test" of ro and rail links in city. same station was closed a week earlier after protesters smashed ticket vending machines and ticket booths.
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Netizens are all praise for bottle-flipping man
According to reports, Hong Kong protesters took to Internet to shower praise and sharing video over 4,000 times on Facebook. Comments on social media say uncle who chased away officers, even though it was t clear as to why police moved away from scene. video on YouTube also h hilarious reactions when a user commented "All conflicts should be settled like this. Flip a coin or a bottle." "Police be like: okay boys lets move out, y passed our test." said ar user.
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