This is the bizarre moment a man faked a seizure on a busy train in Shanghai, China in order to get a seat.

In the video, captured in November 2017, a man suddenly falls to the floor of the train carriage and twitches on the ground as though having some form of fit.

Most of the seated passengers jump to their feet and walk away from the man.

The prankster promptly gets up from the floor and with a smile casually sits down in one of the vacated seats.