Chinese Man Repeatedly Spits on the Floor, Gets Shoved in Front of a Speeding Train

On Sunday afternoon, a 48-year-old man named Tan had allegedly been spitting on the ground throughout the train station until he reached the platform. Another man, a 34-year-old named Li, had been following and watching Tan spitting throughout the station.

Disgusted and offended, Li decided to take matters into his own hands to punish Tan by pushing him off the meter-high platform and onto the tracks in the path of an arriving train, according to Rednet.

Tan narrowly escaped by jumping off the rails as the train approached. Police had later detained Li for causing intentional injury.

While Li’s actions are hardly excusable, Tan told reporters he did learn a valuable lesson that day:

Note to self: public punishments in China can be extremely harsh.