After getting on the bus, the man kept fiddling with the black plastic bag in his hand.

After hearing "fire", the passengers fled the car. (Video screenshot)

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A man with abnormal behavior played with fire on the bus despite everyone's dissuasion, and was subsequently controlled by the police. In front of the police, the man said he just wanted to "play around" and drank the suspicious liquid he carried with him. The afterglow of the Changsha bus arson case is still there, and the man's real intention is unknown, but it is commendable that in this incident, the passengers showed a high level of public transportation safety awareness.

Huasheng Online, August 13th. On the No. 12 bus in Changsha during the morning rush hour today, a man brought a Coke bottle with half a bottle of liquid, took out a lighter and played with it many times in the bus full of passengers, and also aimed the flame at the plastic bag he carried. Fortunately, the car was full of alert passengers. At the moment when the flames jumped up, an uncle grabbed the lighter from the man's hand, and an aunt slapped the burning object to extinguish it.

The man was then taken away by the police who rushed over. The man confessed that he just took out the lighter to play with it and wanted to burn the thread ends of his clothes. Reporters learned that several passengers were slightly scratched in the incident.

The car "caught fire", 40 passengers quickly evacuated

The incident happened at 8:30 this morning, and a No. 12 bus full of passengers was traveling from west to east on the Orange Island Bridge.

"It's on fire, open the door quickly." Someone suddenly shouted in the quiet car, and there was a commotion in the crowd. The driver Zhang Xianxu immediately pressed the door button, and in less than 10 seconds, all the passengers in the car ran out of the car.

Zhang Xianxu recalled that there were about 40 passengers in the car at the time, and several passengers had slight scratches when getting off the bus. Just after everyone escaped from the car, a man in a white striped T-shirt was still sitting upright in the car, fiddling with a lighter in his hand. "He's about 30 years old and looks gentle," said Zhang Xianxu.

The surveillance camera of bus No. 12 recorded the incident: At 8:37, the bus stopped at the Xuanwan Town Station, and the man in white got on the bus and then stood at the front door. At 8:41, the man squeezed through the crowd, walked into the car, and chose a seat by the window. At 8:44, there was a commotion in the car, the front and rear doors opened, and the passengers fled the car at a high speed. Afterwards, the man in white kept confronting the driver in the car. At 8:45, the police entered the bus and took the man away.

After getting on the bus, the man behaved abnormally

"There were about four or five passengers on the bus at that time, and he was the last one to get on." The driver Zhang Xianxu told reporters that the man was on the bus in Xuanwan Town. At that time, the man was wearing transparent disposable gloves, "the kind of disposable gloves used when eating flavored shrimps," Zhang Xianxu said. The man held a broom more than one meter long in his left hand, and a black plastic bag on his right wrist, which looked heavy.

After getting on the bus, the man put in a one-yuan note and then threw the broom on the ground. Zhang Xianxu said that the man did not walk into the car like other passengers, but stood next to him. During this period, the man kept looking around, took off his disposable gloves, and took out a pair from his pocket to change.

The next scene surprised Zhang Xianxu even more. When the bus stopped and waited for the traffic light, the man suddenly picked up the broom and kept sweeping the floor.

"It looks a bit abnormal." Zhang Xianxu said that after this action lasted for about two minutes, the man finally walked into the bus and sat down in the window seat in the third row from the bottom.

The flames jumped up, and the aunt slapped them out

Ms. Qin was one of the witnesses. At that time, she was sitting on the bus to work in Yuanjialing.

"I didn't smell any alcohol on him." Ms. Qin told reporters that the man was dressed elegantly, but his behavior was indeed suspicious. After sitting down by the window, the man kept rubbing the disposable gloves on his hands and opened the black plastic bag. Ms. Qin took a look and saw a Coke bottle with half a bottle of liquid in it.

Until the bus drove onto the Orange Island Bridge, the man took out a lighter and kept fiddling with it, and pressed the electronic ignition several times. "He aimed the flame at his clothes and burned them." Ms. Qin said that at that time, some passengers advised him not to play with fire, but the man ignored it and instead aimed the flame at the plastic bag in his hand.

Because they didn't know whether there were flammable materials in the plastic bag, everyone immediately panicked. Someone on the bus shouted "Fire, fire." Just as other passengers were rushing to the door, a middle-aged man rushed over and snatched the lighter from the man, and an old lady slapped out the sparks on the plastic bag.

"If it weren't for that old lady, the fire might have really started." Recalling the incident, Ms. Qin broke out in a cold sweat. Ms. Qin said that the male passenger who snatched the lighter was in his 40s, and the old lady who slapped out the sparks looked to be in her 50s.

Because they were all rushing to work at the time, the passengers on the bus did not leave their contact information. The reporter tried to contact the two brave passengers, but to no avail.

Police came forward

In front of the police, the man drank the "suspicious liquid"

After the incident, the man was controlled by the police who rushed over.

Shi Wenxiang, a traffic policeman from the Sixth Squadron of the Yuelu Traffic Police Brigade, rushed onto the No. 12 bus less than a minute after the incident. At the time of the incident, he was on duty at the southern bridgehead of the Orange Island Bridge. A bus suddenly stopped about 100 meters east of him. "Many passengers ran towards me in panic. When I asked, they said someone was setting fire on the bus."

Shi Wenxiang rushed to the bus, only to see that all the passengers in the car had run away, except for the driver and a man who were confronting each other on the bus. "The man was stunned at the time and didn't say a word."

Shi Wenxiang searched out a Coke bottle with half a bottle of liquid in the man's black plastic bag. At the same time, there was a plastic bag in the bag, which contained a stone as thick as a bowl.

Afterwards, the police took the suspicious man back to the team for questioning. In the team, the man was emotional and repeatedly shouted: "I just took out the lighter to play with it and wanted to burn the thread on my clothes."

The police said that the man was very aggrieved at the time. To prove his innocence, the man opened a bottle that the passenger thought contained "suspicious liquid" and drank the liquid in the Coke bottle in one breath. "Looking at the color and state, it should be Coke." The police said.

Netizen comments

@秋凌风: Chinese aunties are awesome. They dance in the square and keep fit. It turns out that they are acting as our guardian angels.

@白开水来了: It seems like a mistake. In the future, don't take a lighter and a half-bottle of Coke on the bus at the same time.

@Oxygen Fish Bubble: Changsha people are mighty! The safety and anti-terrorism awareness is really strong!

Reminder

Bus drivershave the right to check suspicious luggage

Since July this year, Changsha bus drivers have been given red armbands of "public security firefighters" by the Municipal Public Security Bureau. "They have the right to check passengers' suspicious luggage and order suspicious passengers to get off the bus."

Editor's note

A beautiful slap

For this scene on bus No. 12 on the 13th, the editor would like to give 32 likes to this couple of uncles and aunts who cooperated well and the passenger who advised the young man not to play with fire. You know, public transportation safety often happens suddenly. At the moment it happens, we cannot expect rescue from the outside world. Self-rescue and mutual rescue are necessary to save lives. The Hangzhou arson case on July 5 taught us a bloody lesson: some passengers smelled rosin water, and some saw the suspect take out a can of liquid, but no one was alert. In this arson case, 30 people were injured.

The uncle and aunt's snatch and slap were quite beautiful! If every Changsha citizen has such public safety awareness, you can imagine that people with bad intentions will probably feel nervous when they think of the fiery Changsha people, and then quietly put away their "tools" and walk away.

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