A passenger reportedly jumped back onto a burning bus to tap off his travel ticket during a huge bus fire on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last year.
The September 2016 fire, which burned so intensely it damaged the road, took hold on a bus travelling northwards on the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia.
According to a Fairfax Media report, one of the 22 passengers aboard the flaming bus jumped back on board after disembarking to tap off his "Opal" travel card.
If you fail to tap off your Opal card, you are automatically charged the highest possible fee for that trip – as if you had gotten off at the very last stop.
So instead of thinking the man acted a little rashly... people got behind his wild act of civil obedience.
who says there are no heroes?
He was labelled "the real MVP".
Here's the real MVP https://t.co/LXDXmdtdhZ
Many identified with the mystery passenger...
Here's me https://t.co/Vc8uBXQWk0
...concluding, yep, fair enough, I wouldn't want to get charged the full rate either.
Others saw it as a metaphor for how people should act in these tumultuous political times.
Is this who we are, as a nation?
#Straya a nation where regular folk will jump back on a burning buss to "tap off" their travel pass "Opal" card..… https://t.co/TPUL6DCnFE
Others took the chance to have a go at Sydney Transport about the policy. One person wrote that trying to explain why you didn't tap off is "too much headache".
Anyway, thank god no-one – mystery tapper included – was badly hurt.
