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Passenger slings hammock on MTR to make his very own 'sleeper carriage'

MTR staff called in when man sets up hammock in train compartment

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No one seems to notice as this brazen passenger takes a doze in a hammock strung between the seats of an Island Line train on Monday night. Photo: SCMP Pictures

A late-night trip on the MTR can be tiring, and one man found what looked like the ideal solution - he strung a hammock across the compartment.

But other passengers didn't find it so relaxing and called MTR staff to intervene.

The episode has become the latest in a string of much-discussed incidents on the trains that have found their way onto the internet.

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It joined the ranks of a video of a woman shouting in a thick accent at a passenger who told her off for eating on a train, and one of a little girl urinating.

In a photograph circulated online, a man is shown lying on a hammock strung between two rows of seats. A few passengers - including one in a straw hat and a dozing man - are on the benches.

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The MTR said it happened on an Island Line train on Monday night. A passenger called an MTR employee at North Point station at 11.30pm and the man left shortly after the employee intervened.

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