Hong Kong road rage video showing man clinging to reversing taxi goes viral
- Man in clip suspected to be drunk, yelling for police and claiming his hand was clamped
- Police say no report of incident made
A video of a taxi reversing in the middle of a main street in Hong Kong’s Central with an apparently drunk man clinging to the front of the vehicle has gone viral.
The 1½-minute video circulating online since Sunday shows a man shouting while lying on his stomach on the taxi’s bonnet, with the incident playing out in the middle of Pedder Street outside an HSBC branch.
A woman who seems to know the man then appears in the clip and tries to persuade the latter to get off the vehicle. She signals apologetically to the driver but the man continues to shout.
“My hand was clamped! Taxi driver, call the police!” he was heard exclaiming.
In the video, the man does not return to the pavement and instead stands in front of the taxi to block its path. The driver then continues to reverse, with the man following the vehicle closely.
A female onlooker is heard shouting: “Why don’t you just grab him back? He might get hit.”
The clip then shows the driver steering backwards in an “S” trail along Pedder Street before finally stopping at an intersection with Queen’s Road Central.