While seeing people break the rules by driving motorbikes in an area zoned for walking seems normal for most Vietnamese people, a foreigner in Hanoi found it too odd, and even took action to stop the violation.
In a video clip that went viral on Facebook and YouTube on Sunday, a foreigner was seen trying to stop a Vietnamese girl from entering a walking street in the capital’s Old Quarter on her motorbike.
The man, wearing a green T-shirt and a shoulder bag, shouted “Walk! So easy!” to the local woman, who steadfastly refused to get off her bike, in the video seen by Tuoi Tre News.
The 33-second clip was filmed on Sunday and went viral immediately after it surfaced on the Internet the same day.
“Get off your bike!” the foreigner repeatedly requested, only to see the girl start her vehicle, apparently intending to ignore him.
The Vietnamese girl clearly understood what the foreign was trying to tell her.
“I understand what he said but I do not want to follow suit,” she was heard saying in Vietnamese to a passer-by.
The passer-by also tried to persuade the girl, saying “even though you do not want to, what would you do if he keeps saying it?”
The resolute attitude of the foreigner finally made the girl give in.
The Vietnamese finally climbed off the bike and walked it away from the foreigner, who clapped his hands enthusiastically to celebrate his successful effort.
Other people in the walking area were also heard applauding the man for his good act.
Vietnamese people are not known for respecting traffic rules, but seeing a local reprimanded and told to follow the regulations by a foreigner is a shame, many local Facebook users said on the social network.
They hailed the good deed by the foreigner, and also his ‘bravery.’
“If a local man had tried to do the same as what the foreigner did in the same situation, he would have been scolded and even assaulted by his compatriots,” a Facebook user commented.
However, an official in charge of overseeing the pedestrian street in the Old Quarter believed the girl is not entirely to blame.
“She must have been traveling from inside the walking street to leave it,” Pham Tuan Long, deputy head of the Old Quarter management board, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday.
Long asserted that it is impossible for people to enter the walking street on their motorcycles.
“We have guard stations at each of the entries to the pedestrian street to stop vehicles from entering,” he said.
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