Chinese passengers in a high-speed rail carriage helped a boy to unzip his pants in public and urinate into a glass beverage bottle, according to a recent Internet post.
A netizen using the username sunboy1013 on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT), the nation’s largest online bulletin board system, said he was riding on the high-speed rail with a female friend and was about to eat dinner when a boy sitting next to them told some adults he was with that he wanted to urinate.
The adults then produced a glass coffee bottle and helped the boy unzip his pants, exposing his genitals to other passengers on the train, and told him to urinate into the bottle, the netizen said, providing a picture that he had taken as evidence.
Internet screen grab
“At that moment, I realized that our powerful neighbor values efficiency in everything it does, and so do its people,” he wrote.
“Even their potty of choice reflects their distinguished taste,” he said, referring to the coffee-shop brand name on the bottle.
Others quickly started riffing on the incident.
“Introducing the latest from Starbucks — Chinese virgin boy’s urine, 50 percent off the second serving,” one netizen said.
“I’m glad it was just a number one,” another said.
A spokesperson for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (HSRC) confirmed from the pattern on the seats shown in the picture that the incident took place on one of the company’s trains, but said that the nationality of the passengers in question has not yet been identified.
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