This is the outrageous moment a man rudely blocked an 80-year-old woman who was trying to go up the stairs at a Tube station.
The altercation, which is thought to have happened at Harrow and Wealdstone station, featured the man filming the elderly woman on the stairs while refusing to get out of her way.
The lady told the man at the start of the video that she “wants to get up the stairs” while clinging to the railing for assistance.
Blocking her path, the man quickly responded by telling her that he was recording and asked her not to touch him, putting his hand in front of her face.
He told her that he’s ‘here relaxing’ and that she could simply just ‘go round’ to which she said: ‘I can’t.’
The younger man then snapped back and said, ‘You can, you’ve got legs,’ before she told him that she is 80 years old, but the man did not care and ignored the elderly woman’s age and said, ‘So?’ and told her again that he was recording.
Tired of being blocked and filmed by the man, she said, ‘I don’t give a damn what you’re doing, you are extremely rude and arrogant.’
As the video came to a conclusion, the lady on the steps turned to a guy dressed in high-visibility clothes to protest that she was being rudely obstructed as other passengers passed by.
Since the video went viral, the man who recorded the elderly woman has been the target of intense criticism on social media.
One Facebook user said: ‘Does he not understand that she needs to hold onto the handrail for her mobility and stability. “I’m recording” and “You’ve got legs” hasn’t landed how he thought it would.’
Another frustrated user remarked: ‘He should not be blocking the stairs, the rail is there for a reason, and all she wants to do is get past. Whatever happened to having respect for your elders.’
While a third said: ‘Poor woman. She needs to hold on to the handrail for stability and doesn’t want to let go. It would have taken him 2 seconds to move to one side and let her pass! He has zero respect for others!’
British Transport Police told the Daily Mail that it is looking into the video, but believes no criminal offence has been committed.
A request for comment has been sent to Transport for London.
The lady obviously needed the stability of the handrail, and I can guarantee that this man wouldn’t have approached a 6-foot-tall man. He wouldn’t have had the bottle for that, but this sad man had to pick on a defenceless woman, and the entitlement of this man is appalling. Anyone who treats an older person with such indifference is beneath contempt.
Well, I do hope he felt superior after winning his pathetic battle, and you really do have to wonder at the guy’s mentality. He’s the one filming himself being an utter idiot, and then puts it out to the public for ‘likes’, he’s certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
He’s an arrogant child, and listen to that horrible put-on accent he’s using – he says he’s relaxing but can’t work out that an 80-year-old might need an easier route (and use of the handrail) when taking a flight of stairs. Good for her for standing up to him, but it’s a huge risk to do that these days.
That’s not a man, that’s a lowlife who believes he is better than everyone else, and to be like that with an old lady actually shows how low he has gone.
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