Well, dude, at least you tried. You tried really hard, and you failed equally hard, and the lesson here is that the universe is capable of negating our very best efforts in the most spectacular fashion.
This is one of those stories that are a mark of contemporary China, or result of. Recently in Shanghai, an old man fainted and fell. Instead of helping him, people stood around and watched (for him to do what, exactly?), and one man, surnamed Liu, took out his phone and began filming. (Again, what for?)
A woman nearly lost her child in Jinhua, Zhejiang province recently when she recklessly drove her scooter carrying two young children between two cars at a stoplight. As she braked, the scooter lurched and a child fell out, and at the same time the car next to them pulled forward as the light had turned green. The young child's head bumped against the back wheel of the car. The above video gives you a frightening idea of how close the child came to getting her head run over.
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.
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.
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.
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 »
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 »
A cop in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is taking heat for hitting seven people with his car, including a child. Oh, and he was speeding. Oh, and he may have been drinking. And he may have been on an invalid license. Um, and he allegedly fled the scene. Possibly he was a zombie, too. I... Read more »
On Wednesday morning, Chinese Valentine’s Day eve, a young man in a Xidan mall got on his knees to propose to his love and serenade her with a song. She was having none of it. Repaying his public display of affection, she kicked him. Ladies, help me decipher: that’s just an expression of embarrassment, and... Read more »
