This is an update to our 2 am post about Lu Jianbo, the civil servant in Jiangsu province who attacked a woman with a knife on Friday night while reportedly shouting, “My family runs the public security bureau! Killing people is not a problem!” (“公安局是我家开的, 杀死人没问题!”) The raw footage of the incident remains cleansed from Youku, where it first... Read more »
Last Thursday at Dalian’s South Tunzi Beach, a woman caught everyone’s attention with her four-meter-long python, the literal kind. Apparently snakes enjoy a good swim every once in a while. Those who weren’t too terrified of the creature happily surrounded the woman to take pictures and ask questions. This story appears to have first been... Read more »
Good Day LA brings us this video from "China." On Saturday, a driver of a black Audi tried to avoid hitting a dog crossing the road, only to get blindsided by another car and sent veering into the other side of the road, whereupon it crashed head-on with another vehicle. To complete this comedy of errors, the Audi then caught on fire. Meanwhile, the dog -- which got clipped but not run over -- spun in circles.
Xinhua News Agency is reporting that the manhunt for serial killer Zhou Kehua, 42, involved in a murder/robbery on Friday morning, is over. Zhou was shot and killed by police in Chongqing’s Shapingba District this morning. Classified as a “class-A” wanted suspect, he had racked up 5.4 million yuan’s worth of bounty on his head... Read more »
In an incident that reminds us of the Beijing hostage-taker that was taken out by a sniper last month, in Guangzhou Railway Station in Guangdong province on Saturday, a man holding a 10-year-old girl was likewise shot by police, and the hostage successfully saved (though not without injury; hearing it described, she got cut as... Read more »
The man seen with the knife is apparently Lu Jianbo, son of the deputy political commissar of the Jiangsu Province Public Security Bureau. The PSB's Weibo has confirmed that Lu is under "investigation," which should be aided by the video above, taken Friday night, in which Lu wields a knife at a woman on the ground, cutting her a reported 34 times (images after the jump).
Picture by Kevin Reitz Just like that, the Olympics are over. As we look back, here’s our list of the 10 most noteworthy China-related stories from the London Games. 1. Liu Xiang fails. Crumbled in a heap. CCTV commentators weren’t sure how to react, so one of them cried. Sports broadcast journalism has rarely been... Read more »
Watch those eyes, James Cameron (via MIC Gadget) Sad: the Olympics are over. We have a roundup post coming up in the next hour, but for now, (mostly) non-Olympics links.
One of the NBC announcers absolutely comes to life when he sees the chubby baby stir from its sleep. "Now that's what I call a rude awakening!" he chortles.
