We get it. No one likes going through metro station security. It’s a musty, crowded jostle that adds yet another layer of harried shuffling to the daily underground commute.
Now ubiquitous at subway stations across China’s major cities, mandatory X-ray baggage inspections have drawn varied responses from travelers. Why, it was only just last month that a Guangdong woman reluctant to part with her handbag decided to accompany it on a ride through the X-ray machine, producing striking images and presumably soaking up an unhealthy dose of electromagnetic radiation.
Recently, a Wuhan woman averse to putting her handbag through the scanning machine decided to take a different approach. On February 28, Ms. Wei entered Sanjiaohu Station on the Hubei city's Metro Line 3. Security camera footage obtained by Kankan News shows that, upon reaching the mandatory security check, Wei attempted to pass the metal detector without placing her bag on the X-ray conveyor belt. When a female security attendant asked her to do so, Ms. Wei refused, explaining that her handbag was too expensive, while the conveyor belt was far too dirty.
Pandemonium quickly ensued. The two women got to shouting and Wei was quickly surrounded by station security. She can be seen grabbing at her nemesis’s hair and face before changing tack and pretending to faint, allowing her body to slump to the floor, which, presumably, is no cleaner than the baggage scanner conveyor belt.
When it becomes clear that this lady is not going to put that bag on that belt, security guards begin to drag Ms. Wei away, who quickly springs back to life to deliver a punishing blow to a metal notice board, before lying down defiantly on the aforementioned floor. She was ultimately arrested by police and sentenced to five days administrative detention.
And yes, there’s no denying that those baggage scanner conveyor belts are, in all likelihood, straight up coated in the accumulative filth of thousands of daily commuters, but that aggregate urban grime is the price we all must pay for harmonious transport.
[Images via Kankan News]
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