Woman who stopped train from departing insists she wasn't wrong

Over the weekend, video went viral on Chinese social media showing a woman preventing a high-speed train from departing a railway station, insisting that it wait just a little longer for her husband to arrive.

In the nearly 4-minute-long video, the woman is seen arguing with train conductors at the Hefei Railway Station in Anhui Province, refusing to budge as they try to persuade and push her from the train doorway. Eventually, the woman was taken into custody and the train left the station a few minutes late.

Yesterday, the Anhui Railway Public Security Bureau announced that the woman, a local teacher named Luo Haili, had been hit with a 2,000 yuan fine for “illegally stopping a train and blocking railway transportation. Luo was also asked to acknowledge and rectify her mistake.

That last part seems a tad unlikely since she evidently does not believe that she did anything wrong. When interviewed about the incident, Luo had this to say:

“I thought the train was stopping at the station for 10 minutes. There were 2 minutes left, is that not enough time to get on the train? My husband only needed 10 seconds to come down, then it would have been no big deal. At the time, wasn’t I only trying to get him come down. Did I do something wrong?”

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Well, apparently yes, in the view of railway police and Chinese netizens.

“Do you think that a high-speed train is your own personal car?” asked one Weibo user. “If you arrive one minute late for the gaokao, would you be let in? wrote another.

In fact, many Chinese web users are angry that the woman got off with just a fine, believing that she should have also been kept in detention for 10 days or even blacklisted for life from riding on a high-speed train.

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