Excerpt from wikipedia:
"The Bus Uncle" is a Cantonese video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27, 2006. While the older man (Chan), who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncle, scolded the man seated behind him (Ho), a nearby passenger used his camera phone to record the entire incident to provide evidence for the police in the event of a fight. The resulting six-minute video[1] was uploaded to the Hong Kong Golden Forum, YouTube, and Google Video. The clip became YouTube’s most viewed video in May 2006, attracting viewers with its rhetorical outbursts and copious use of profanity by the older man, receiving 1.7 million hits in the first 3 weeks of that month.[3]
The video became a cultural sensation in Hong Kong, inspiring vigorous debate and discussion on lifestyle, etiquette, civic awareness and media ethics within the city, eventually attracting the attention of the media around the world.
Turns out, the Bus Uncle became a star, having quite a screen presence in Hong Kong, being at a certain point employed by a restaurant because of his fame, and then being beaten up by a few "friends" that he didn’t even know he had. Amazing story, you can find it all on wikipedia.
Here is the video, and if you want more info on that subject, as well as the rest of the story, visit this page on wikipedia.
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