Shocking bus assault by 400-pound-woman allegedly leaves teen without teeth

Police in New Zealand are hunting for a large woman who allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old Chinese boy with a metal pole on an Auckland bus, knocking out five of his teeth.Details of the alleged attack on Friday morning — the Maori New Year public holiday — were first shared on Chinese social media platform WeChat by local news blogger Mao Peng.According to the Chinese-language report, the teen was on board the bus going from East Auckland towards the city when he was attacked by a “woman in her 40s who looked Maori”.“She weighed more than 200 kilograms [about 441 lbs] and held an iron rod about 12mm [about 0.5 in] thick and one meter [over three feet] long in her hand,” a witness told Mao.It’s not clear exactly how he estimated the woman’s weight.“As soon as she got on the bus, she used the iron rod to hit the bus floor from time to time,” the witness continued.“The girl who was originally sitting next to her hid in other seats.

Unexpectedly, the woman suddenly stood up and hit a Chinese boy in the row next to her with the iron rod.The woman hit him repeatedly with the iron rod and stabbed the boy in the face.”The witness, a 75-year-old Chinese man on the bus who rushed to the boy’s aid, said “more than a dozen” other Chinese people sitting on the bus “sat in their seats and did nothing” despite him yelling for help.“The two of us then wrestled with each other,” he said.“I could only lock the woman’s neck with my left hand and hit her head with my mobile phone with my right hand.” Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.

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Never miss a story.The elderly man, who was also injured during the struggle, said he and the victim eventually managed to take away the weapon.The woman fled when the bus stopped at Panmure Railway Station.“It was then t...