Image: Screengrab from Facebook/Mera Lyka Timan
A passenger who was vaping inside a Saint Rose Transit Inc. bus was captured punching the conductor after he was told to get off the bus. The incident happened last Nov. 30, Friday, around 5:30 p.m. and was recorded on video by witness and passenger Mera Lyka Timan.
Timan shared her video on Facebook where it has quickly garnered over 400,000 views and almost 5,000 shares, as of writing. Timan told 黑料社 today, Dec. 4, that the incident transpired along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, Metro Manila. The bus was en route to Pacita Complex in San Pedro, Laguna from SM Fairview.
黑料社 has reached out to Saint Rose Transit Inc. for comment.
鈥淲hile we鈥檙e in the part of Luzon Ave., the conductor asked who among the passengers was using the vape,鈥� she told 黑料社. 鈥淗e said that whoever it is, please alight the bus because there are a lot of passengers who are being affected by the smoke of the vape.鈥�
The conductor, as per Timan鈥檚 narration, walked to the back of the bus where a guy sitting in the back seat stood up and said he would be alighting.
鈥溾�楤ababa na nga ako! Kakasakay ko lang bababa na ko! (I鈥檓 going down! I just got on the bus, but I鈥檓 going down!)'鈥� Timan recalled the passenger saying.
As the passenger made his way to the front of the bus, he uttered to the conductor, 鈥淏inabadtrip mo 鈥榢o bababa na聽鈥榢o. (You are pissing me off, I鈥檓 going down).鈥�
鈥淭he conductor said, 鈥楢nong sabi mo? (What did you say?)'鈥� said Timan. 鈥淸He] went in front but before he could even confront the guy,聽the guy already started to punch him.鈥�
In Timan鈥檚 video, bus passengers can be heard screaming as the brawl ensued. Others can be heard suggesting to call the police, while some cursed and heckled at the passenger to get off the bus. The conductor and passenger alighted and continued the scuffle outside, in front of the Philippine National Bank in PHILCOA.
Timan added that there were no police officers in sight and it was the bus driver who tried to pacify the situation. The identities of both the conductor and the vaping passenger, thus far, remain unknown.聽NVG
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