Bus Spotting: Like Trainspotting, But Weirder

We know a lot of bus lovers at Atlantic Cities, people who research buses, people who play with bus data just for kicks, people who commute by bus as a civic statement. But this one is new to us: people who capture and collect photos of buses spotted in the urban wild as if they were some exotic or celebrity species.

This is apparently an actual thing done by hundreds of people in Hong Kong (according to the headcount of the 800-member strong BusFanWorld.org). The Wall Street Journal just published a delightful piece about the quirky hobby: