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Train Passengers Go Sick After Someone Puts A Bagel On A Man's Head

Train Passengers Go Sick After Someone Puts A Bagel On A Man's Head

We have no idea either.

Josh Teal

Josh Teal

Words are futile when put alongside a picture of a man with a bagel on his head, but we're gonna give it a go for those who watch the following video and come away from it wanting answers.

This series of clips, dubbed #BagelGate by cameraman Dougie Stew, purport to show a brawl breaking out on a train from Peterborough to London's King's Cross all because of a bagel - one man's Jewish delicacy, another's WMD.

While it's still pretty unclear what exactly happened or why, it would seem that someone at one point during the train journey decided to get out a bagel and put it on a random woman's head. A simple act of frivolity that brought on Purge-like levels of public chaos.

We then cut to two women having a scrap. "Be the bigger person! Be the bigger person!" a stranger pleads as she holds one of the women down. Eventually, the whole thing cools off.

But it isn't the last of the shenanigans. Jump-cutting to the other side of the carriage, we see a man throwing pieces of bagel out of the window, over and over, before giving in and sitting down with a bagel on his head while the rest of the carriage chant: "He's got a bagel, on his head! He's got a bagel, on his head!"

Not long into it, the man cracks and throws the thing out of the window.

"Fuck off! Get the fuck out of my face!" he yells to a man who is trying to calm him down.

The carnage then travels to a train platform.

The video ends with the arrival of the police.

Dougie Stew compared the ride to an episode of dystopian Channel 4 show Black Mirror, telling Metro: "I got on at the first carriage and you could see that everyone had had a good night.

"These girls were grabbing bagel after bagel from their handbags and just putting them on people's heads and singing.

"It was pretty funny but then people started getting a bit worked up and all of a sudden these two girls are going at one another.

"All the while, this guy is still getting bagels put on his head and chucking them out the window. I don't know how these girls had so many of them.

"In fairness, once the police boarded, everyone calmed down and was pretty helpful with them. The two women actually stayed on the train and eventually we got going again."

A British Transport Police spokeswoman said: "We were called at 1.15am on Sunday to reports of a disturbance on board a train. We attended and spoke to passengers but no allegations of any offences were made.

"If anyone wants to come forward to make any complaints then we will investigate further."

Featured Image Credit: Dougie Stew/Twitter; All Images