#BagelGate: Police called out to train fight over bagels

Police were called out to a fight on a train following a disagreement over bagels this weekend.

Officers arrived at Potters Bar station in Hertfordshire after being alerted to passengers fighting in the early hours of Sunday, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The incident, captured on video by a passenger, has been described as depicting "the best and worst of Britishness". It has also been "liked" more than 17,000 times on Twitter.

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In the video, a woman can be seen placing a bagel on a man's head as her friends chant: "He's got a bagel on his head." The man throws the roll out the window, only for another one to be put on his head.

Events are then repeated once more and the man eventually protests as the chanting continues.

The video then cuts to a group of people, seemingly unconnected, fighting on a station platform and eventually concludes with the British Transport Police entering the train.

Witness Dougie Stew wrote there were "about 4 different story lines all at the same time... honestly like something straight out of black mirror."

Using the hashtag #BagelGate, the British Transport Police tweeted: "Let's be clear, no bagel should be treated so cruelly. And no one subjected to intimidating behaviour. Ever need us text 61016."

It has since emerged that the bagels came from a shop on Brick Lane, according to one of the women featured in the video. But "despite this extra information we're still no closer to truly understanding what actually happened", says the Huffington Post.