Click to enlarge The first day of school can be rough. There’s this strange and combustible mixture of anxiety and giddiness and despair and pent-up energy, to say nothing of the fact that no one knows anyone else’s name. In Shenzhen, one set of parents have come up with a remedy: shaving identifiers into their... Read more »
4th Pet World Dog Carnival at Chaoyang Park, via Xinhua In case we forgot to mention earlier this week, it is officially autumn. The hot days are behind us. Let sadness commence. But first, links!
Saturday saw another beauty pageant in China, the final of Miss Universe China in Shanghai. According to the official website — “celebrating Chinese women!” — 21 contestants vied for the prize of 3.28 million yuan and the chance to represent China in the Miss Universe contest in December. Xu Jidan from Jilin — looking slightly... Read more »
It's most definitely not the type of flying you want to do. Watch as a woman crossing the road stops in the middle -- maybe because she received a text or call, says the interviewed police officer -- and winds up going head over heels when a sedan plows right through her. (The sound effects are the newscast's.)
Last Friday in Shenzhen, someone snapped pictures of this policewoman cutting the nails of an old man on the street, and a few days later the images found their way to Sina Weibo, where they quickly began to circulate because acts of common decency, especially by cops, rarely get the play they deserve. The officer had... Read more »
A show on CCTV-13 recently aired a segment from the Zhejiang Traffic Bureau that was essentially a morbid seat belt PSA. We've seen these type of public service announcements before -- there was this GIF from the Shanghai Highway Patrol in July warning people to take care of their tires -- and like always, questions of their efficacy take a backseat to the shocking footage itself.
Don’t do this. A few days ago on the Zhejiang-Shenhai Highway, a driver — making a run for the title of worst in the world — inexplicably braked on the highway after missing an exit, nearly causing a serious wreck. A freight truck lost control while trying to avoid a collision, screeching to a halt next... Read more »
A man (either 43 or in his 20s, depending on your source) has been arrested for attacking four people with a knife yesterday at Shenzhen Pengcheng Hospital. In the video (somewhat graphic), you’ll see him patiently waiting for his otolaryngologist (ENT doctor) to appear, then producing a vegetable knife from his bag and slashing the unsuspecting... Read more »
Because we're generous, let's file this under "poor planning." Three days ago, a 46-year-old man in Anhui province, surnamed Han, decided to climb a 30-meter-high electricity pylon to steal eggs out of a bird's nest. More than halfway up, it seems he lost his nerve, and like a cat stuck in a tree, required the assistance of rescue workers. The electricity flow to the tower had to be shut off, and an air cushion set up underneath the man. Can you think of anything he could have said to save face once he got down? Brownie points to anyone who comes up with something passable. You can't use "fugue state" -- Walter White's already used that one.
