Round ’em up: New Zealand professor becomes ‘traffic conductor’ in southwest China
Foreign academic at local university spends spare time ‘restoring order to the chaos’ of a busy road intersection
Videos have surfaced online of a foreign university professor in southwest China directing traffic at the centre of a busy intersection, yelling “get out of the way”.
The viral video running 3 minutes 25 seconds shows the man leaping in front of moving cars and banging on their hoods, loudly directing multiple cars to “turn right!” and telling them, “no!”
Bruce, as he is identified in a report by local newspaper Guizhou Du Shi Bao, is a professor from New Zealand who teaches at the Guizhou University of Finance and Economics in the provincial capital, Guiyang.
In the video, Bruce is also seen ushering a woman pushing a baby in a pram across the street towards the pedestrian crossing, shouting at her, “this is not the way!”
Almost 30,000 comments have circulated on Chinese online news portal 163.com, the majority criticising Bruce for interfering with the “normal functioning of internal affairs” in the city.