We’ve had our fun with this, now it’s time to drop the hammer. Earlier today, Wuhan Evening Paper reported that Zhengzhou’s now-infamous “filial pigs” — a mother and son in a pose suggestive of anything but filial piety — was in fact based off a statuette from a series called “Hooligan Pigs,” created 10 years... Read more »Read more »
This is the sort of story that you wish was merely an urban legend. Recently, a man in Beijing taking a cab from Wudaokou was jabbed by a hypodermic needle hidden, for reasons unknown, in the back pouch of the front seat, where magazines are kept. Apparently the syringe broke skin on his right knee. When he saw there was fluid inside the needle, he became very worried and had it examined at the Chaoyang District Disease Prevention and Control Center. Read more »
By now you've heard that there was a shooting on Friday morning in New York next to the Empire State Building. The skinny of it: Jeffrey T. Johnson, 58, used a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun to kill an office rival, Steven Ercolino, in broad daylight. Police confronted Johnson when he walked around the corner, and when he pulled out his gun, they unloaded 16 rounds on him, killing him and wounding nine others. Read more »
Some people really want this sculpture to be just a son massaging his mother, whose quivering eyes are merely grateful and on her ruddy face the arpeggio of delight turned ecstatic is divested of all venereal context.
Not really sure why her left nipple is exposed though. Read more »
Last Thursday, police in Foshan, Guangdong province were tracking two men on a motorcycle near a tourist area when one of them suddenly tried snatching a woman's purse. Realizing a cop was on its tail, the motorcyclist tried to get away through heavy traffic. One of them even threw a helmet at the car. The chase didn't go well for the thieves, who were eventually subdued and arrested. Police found car-stealing equipment on their bike, according to the Youku video description. Read more »
Ontario-based PS I Love You is performing in Beijing on Sunday at Yugongyishan, 100 RMB pre-sale, 120 RMB at the door. They’ll be joined by Daniel Hart, DJ Dave Van Buuren, and BJC favorite Residence A. Youku video for those in China after the jump. Read more »
What if I told you there’s a man underneath that car, flattened by the truck, and that he survived? [Daily Mail] We hope you didn’t spend Chinese Valentine’s Day yesterday wallowing in loneliness and self-pity. Let’s face it though, you probably deserved it… because you didn’t read enough links. Read more »
An elevated stretch of highway on Third Ring Road in Harbin, Heilongjiang province collapsed at around 5:30 am today, according to China News, killing two immediately and injuring six others. One of the injured later died at the hospital. The accident happened about 3.5 kilometers from Yangmingtan Bridge, which we’re told was built less than a year... Read more »Read more »
The political orgy known as the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is forthcoming, and while we have no idea when it’ll actually arrive on its great white horse, the relevant organs have begun taking steps to ensure that the resulting lather is a nice white sheen that masks all the ticks... Read more »Read more »
Four protesters in Shenzhen on Tuesday afternoon came up with a creative way of voicing discontent over the Japanese claims on the Diaoyu islands. With bayonets between their thighs — and three of them in swimwear — they chanted things like, “Civilized patriotism, rational Japanese resistance.” I think what they mean is: don’t do this.... Read more »Read more »
