Chinese child defecates on bus, causing social media stink
- Passenger objects when little girl uses potty on a Beijing bus, but not everyone agrees it is socially unacceptable
Social media users in China are divided over the merits of toilet training after a video was posted online showing an elderly couple pulling out a potty on a Beijing bus so their granddaughter could defecate.
The video, which was uploaded to microblogging platform Weibo, showed a woman passenger and the couple quarrelling on the bus over whether the behaviour was acceptable.
The woman later took to Weibo to give her version of the incident, which happened on Wednesday, and began when the grandparents produced a potty and a plastic bag because the little girl needed to relieve herself.
The woman wrote that she had told the couple to take the girl off the bus and find a nearby toilet. But her words fell on deaf ears.
“At first I told myself to let it go since she was a little kid after all. But later I had to complain as there was a smell. The old couple began to curse me and criticised me for not showing sympathy for a kid,” she said.
An employee from Beijing Bus Hotline, a service platform run by the Beijing Public Transportation Group, told online news portal BTime.com that normally drivers would suggest passengers leave the bus to find a restroom.