A young man lit a cigarette inside a bus, angered the rest of the passengers and the bus driver asked him to put it out. After the smoker refused to throw it away, the driver threatened him with a fire extinguisher to get him to get out of the vehicle.
The unusual episode occurred in a bus in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia, province of Chubut, and was filmed by the cameras of two different cell phones. The first sequence was filmed by the protagonist of the story, while the fight was filmed by a passenger.
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The conflict began when the young man filmed himself smoking a cigarette in a bus that was crowded with people. The video, which he uploaded to his Instagram story, shows the violent argument he had with the driver, each one from his place.
“Brother, throw away the crazy cigarette,” another of the local passengers told him while a woman yelled at him because the bus was stopped. Far from being impatient, the young man threw the ashes from the window and continued smoking.
When he tried to throw it away, the cigarette bounced off the window and fell to the floor of his seat. “There it is, I already threw away the cigarette, perri,” said the smoker. However, a second later he picked it up, smoked again and then threw it out the window.
The young man refused to put out his cigarette and the driver threatened him with a fire extinguisher. (Photo: video capture).
“We won’t move until you throw away the cigarette,” the young man said in an ironic tone, trying to make fun of what the driver had previously told him. Then, he insulted him: “Five hours waiting for the bus, shit… shit. Pu…, are you going to be so crazy? “I’m going to take you down and I’m going to fuck you up.”
The insults were the last straw that broke the patience of the bus driver, who confronted him. Filmed by another passenger’s phone camera, the driver was seen scolding him to get off the bus. “Get off or I’ll blow your head in,” he repeated as he walked to the seat. In the middle, a woman tried to stop him: “Don’t commit yourself so much, sir,” she told him.
After a few seconds they were face to face, but the bus driver had a fire extinguisher in his hand. “Open the door for me, man…” the young man told him, while the driver responded that it was open. The smoker tried to get out through the front door, but was forced to leave through the back of the bus.
At the end of the video, the passengers who were on the same bus joined the driver’s request and asked the young man to get off the bus. Only one of them, who was next to the smoker, told him that he had already thrown away the cigarette.
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A third video that – like the other two – went viral on social networks shows a type of lynching by passengers against the young man who refused to get off the bus. In the images you can see a man (wearing the same clothes as the protagonist of the video) on the ground, being beaten by a large group of people.