What happens when a bear races a monkey on a bicycle? First of all, stop. Why is a bear racing a monkey… Oh fuck it. Take over, Huffington Post: During the performance, two monkeys take the lead as onlookers laugh and cheer. The bear is hot on their heels, however, and a second-lap crash quickly turns grisly. After the bear collides with the fallen monkey and flies over its handlebars, it goes ballistic, ma ...

Big oops, as spotted by Car News China in Shanghai. A Ferrari FF drove into the back on a truck on a bicycle lane. Furthermore; the Ferrari was driven by a laowai (foreigner) with a laowai-chick on the passenger’s seat. It's not as expensive an accident as a Lamborghini running into a Rolls Royce, but nonetheless... OOPS. ...

What if we told you the last one to stop touching the car gets to keep it? How long could/would you touch it, then? Yesterday in Shanghai, some 60 people began competing to win a new Volkswagen Polo by keeping their hands pressed to it. According to China Daily, contestants were allowed one 15-minute bathroom break every six hours, and the last person to remove his/her hand is the grand prize winner. To the ...

Morbid details have emerged in the story of the British toddler who was crushed by a "falling screen" last Monday in a Shanghai restaurant. The accident happened at Kervan Orient Express just after 8 pm when the three-year-old boy, playing with a seven-year-old girl, fell down and "touched the partition screen, which fell and hit him in the head," according to Shanghai Daily. The partition is taller than an ...

Police are investigating how a three-year-old boy could have been killed by a falling screen in a restaurant in Shanghai's downtown Huangpu District on Monday. According to Shanghai Daily, "Witnesses said the boy may have accidentally touched the screen before it fell on him. Screens are sometimes used by restaurants to divide dining areas." The boy was sent to a nearby hospital, but reportedly did not have ...

Fernando Alonso of Spain steered his Ferrari to victory at Formula One's Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday at Shanghai International Circuit. F1 fans should know Mark Webber didn't do as well, as WorldCarFans.com reports. Alonso, sounding more bored than anything afterward, said: "The celebrations tonight will be nothing special as I have an early flight for Bahrain," where F1's next race will be held. The Guard ...

Another variety of dead creature has been fished out of Shanghai's waters in bulk. Over the last three days in Songjiang District, about 300 kilograms of dead fish ("500 to 600 jin," say media) have been dredged out of a dike between the Si and Jing rivers. Authorities speculate that the cause may be have been illegal blast fishing. A reporter for the National Digital Culture Network arrived at the scene on ...

This message on Sina Weibo about six Danes pissing in Shanghai: A group of laowai collectively pee on a Shanghai overpass, while smirking!  Can only say __ doesn't have national boundaries! Please fill in the blank! Bladder control? Pissing in public? Eating urine-soaked eggs? Smirking? ...

"Well," says the at the 4-minute mark of his opening monologue, "it seems the number of dead pigs found floating in a river in Shanghai has now risen to over 13,000." An Angry Birds joke follows, which is lame. "Chinese officials said the dead pigs won’t affect the quality of drinking water in the river," he said, while the crowd chuckled. "How bad is your drinking water if 13,000 dead rotting pigs don’t af ...

We've seen people behaving poorly upon finding wads of cash floating in the wind. This is the obverse of that type of story. In Shanghai on Saturday morning, a drunken man threw 10,000 yuan ($1,608) into the air at the intersection of Gonghexin and Baode roads, according to Shanghai Daily, reason unknown (repeat: he was drunk). Upon finding the money returned to him -- mostly collected by two local middle-a ...

The trivial and madcap escapades of drunken expats rarely rise to the level of serious news, the kind that might be featured on, oh, the Telegraph. But recently, a standoff between locals in Shanghai and foreign revelers on the popular bar street Yongkang Road escalated to such heights that the Telegraph's Tom Phillips reported on it in an article headlined, "Shanghai residents declare war on drunken expats ...

Seriously, now: forget the jokes, forget about water safety concerns, forget everything until this question is answered: what possibly could have gone through the mind of the homicidal pig farmer who dumped more than 6,000 pigs into the Huangpu River? Did a pig farm explode? Does circovirus cause pigs to go mad and jump in water, as if they were on fire? Is it us who have gone mad? Have a look, this is how ...

Unsatisfied with "hogwash," "bay of pigs," and "bacon" -- all perfectly good and scurvy ways of describing the deathcarts of pig carcasses dredged out of the upper regions of Shanghai's Shuangpu River this week -- we now have "pigfestation," courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek: ...

Babe: Pig in the Drinking Water. You've read the story, seen the video (above, if you haven't). Now hear what the Onion, et al., have to say about the thousands of dead pigs in the Huangpu River, a source of "most" of Shanghai's drinking water for its 23 million residents. ...

People in Shanghai never stop complaining about Beijing, and with sandstorms sweeping into the capital, the people in this country's Second City have been growing quite smug about their marginally healthier air. Well, now… Shanghai isn't exactly environmentally pristine. This weekend, more than 900 dead pigs were found added to the aquatic ecosystem in the Songjiang section of Huangpu River. ...

What does Gilbert Arenas, three-time NBA All-Star, do before CBA games in Shanghai? Watch YouTube, of course. We know this thanks to Donald Mahoney of the video series Donnie Does. "I watched you on YouTube before I got here," Arenas tells Donnie in the tunnel before a Sharks home game. "You're funny as shit." "How you liking Shanghai?" "It's fun." "Let's grab a beer sometime." ...

No Pants Subway Ride, the annual event launched in 2002 by New York City-based Improv Everywhere, has spread to more than 60 cities, in which subway commuters strip off their pants on January 13 just because. Thousands participated this year in New York, hundreds in Mexico City, and, um, maybe a dozen or so in Shanghai? Participation looked sparse, but it's not about quantity, of course, but quality, and fe ...

Hong Kong had fireworks at Victoria Harbor. Shanghai had a 4D light show on the Bund. Beijing had a beam of light out of the China Millennium Monument (a sundial you probably haven't been to, because Haidian district). We love our home city, but am also kind of okay admitting that Beijing loses this round (though these photos are pretty cool). Shanghai vs. Hong Kong - who takes it? [polldaddy poll=6801636] ...

Navator and the creative agency NeochaEDGE recently released a video from this year's MIDI Electronic Music Festival in Shanghai, specifically from October 27 at Pudong Lujiazui. These people are what one would call "cool." UPDATE, 11:58 pm: Major props are also due for The Freshest Kids in China, which shot and edited the video. The song is Little Jinder's "Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)." Yo ...

Earlier this week the Economist Intelligence Unit released "Hot Spots," a report commissioned by Citigroup that "ranks the competitiveness of 120 of the world's major cities." There aren't many surprises: US and European cities remain the most competitive overall; Asian cities do well economically; New York and London are ranked 1-2. We in Beijing really have no news hook to blog about this, except... How d ...