Watch: Street Hawkers Get Into A Fight With Municipal Corporation Workers

A clip of municipal authority workers and street hawkers getting into a fight has surfaced online. Reportedly, the incident took place in Surat, Gujarat. The video was uploaded on the micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter). It opens to a group of fruit hawkers in a municipal truck and packing up their cart. However, things turn ugly when the municipal workers get into a brawl with them. In the video, the workers can be seen beating a woman on the truck with a stick. In retaliation, the street vendor throws some fruits at her.

So far, the clip has been able to garner 222k views.

One of the users wrote, “Why is she doing this? Even security guards are present there. Very shameful.”

Another user commented, “I don’t know the context, but in Surat, these people sell on the road and cause huge nuisance, and after complaining, when municipal workers go to catch them, they mostly attack with stones and sticks. So, I think this is just a reaction.”

In the other part of the world, a video of a group of people helping a vendor, who accidentally dropped his fruit basket, had created a lot of buzz. In the clip, the person is seen selling fruits. A few second later, the basket slips from his hands. The dejected person then quickly starts picking fruits from the ground. Much to his surprise, people come forward to help him. They can be seen offering money to the fruit vendor in effort to recover his loss. “People can be amazing sometimes,” the side note read.

Social media users also shared their thoughts in the comments section. A person gave a shout out to that people for helping the vendor.

Another said that such act restores faith in humanity. Meanwhile, a few claimed that the video was staged and the vendor was trying to scam people.