Man sits on mug all night in train carriage  

小伙买站票漱口杯当凳子坐通宵:“杯子质量不错”

24日凌晨2点，记者在10号车厢和11号车厢连接处，见到了程先生正坐在一只塑料杯上。“买不到卧铺，连坐票都没有，事先也没有准备好板凳之类的，看漱口杯质量还不错，就用来坐着。” [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A young man with a seatless train ticket spent a whole night sitting on plastic mug used for brushing his teeth, the West China Metropolis Daily reported on Tuesday.

The man surnamed Cheng got on the train K9472 at 5 p.m. on Jan 23, which departed from Panzhihua, a city in Sichuan province.

At midnight, Cheng was seen sitting on his toothbrushing mug with six fellow passengers standing around him.

"The mug looks fine in quality, so I used it as a small stool," said Cheng, who weighs over 65 kilograms.

Chen said he had failed to buy a hard-seat ticket, let alone a sleeper one.

Train tickets are in shot supply during the Spring Festival travel rush. And the Ministry of Transport has forecasted that Chinese passengers will make over 3.6 billion individual trips during this year's 40-day long travel rush.