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This website is quite educational - I am always learning something new!Quote:
Originally Posted by felix
Dear ChinaV,
You don't happen to have a red T-shirt and roller skates, do you?
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This laowai truly is daring, stopping a military car for violating traffic regulations in busy downtown Guangzhou
Military vehicles in China using their special privileges to drive as they please can be said to be a common sight, but recently in Guangzhou on Taojin North Road appeared a male foreign national (pictured) who boldly blocked such a car on the street and even criticized the military driver on the scene for violating traffic regulations. After the incident was captured on camera by a city resident and uploaded onto the internet, it immediately caused a sensation.
That day, a car with the license plate “广 J” [Guangzhou military prefix], believed by netizens as being a General Staff Contact Department special privileges car, attempted to enter the public bus only lane. When the male foreign national saw this, he bravely stepped forth to stop the car, criticized the car’s driver to his face, and stopping him from violating regulations. According to reports, this male foreign national took the initiative upon himself to maintain traffic order while on his inline skates starting about half a year ago, but no know knows his details. He is always stopping cars and drivers who are breaking the law, even asking drivers if they know how to read the Chinese text on the road signs. With regards to the male foreign nationals conduct, nearby city residents all express support, strongly praising him “He is a good person”, while a netizen has bemoaned: “Chinese people have long lost the ability to control the things that happen in China.”
And this report from South China Morning Post.
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Rollerman: the military's foe and Guangzhou hero
Ivan Zhai
Updated on May 07, 2011
Everyone needs heroes - people who can accomplish the impossible. The ancient Greeks had Heracles and modern Americans have Superman.
Now Guangzhou has a hero of its own - Rollerman - a foreigner on roller skates who has taken to challenging military vehicles that violate traffic rules in the city centre.
In photos posted on the internet by Guangzhou residents, Rollerman looks to be in his 30s. Wearing a red T-shirt, black shorts and sunglasses, he stands in the middle of an intersection, right in front of a grey seven-seat van with military plates. His right hand points to a traffic sign indicating that the van is going the wrong way.
Witnesses told local newspapers Rollerman asked the military van not to enter the lane - in Chinese, "zhe li bu zhun zou, bu ke yi de" (it's not allowed to go this way, no way).
Some who live nearby said they had seen Rollerman appear at the same spot frequently in the past year and stop military vehicles from violating traffic rules. They would see him during weekday rush hours and on holidays, standing at the spot for at least 10 minutes while paying attention to transgressions that traffic police ignored.
His actions have won praise from tens of thousands of Guangzhou residents. One online posting says Rollerman is a hero for doing what Chinese would not dare to do. Others say it is a shame that only a foreigner is willing to help correct poor behaviour on the mainland.
It is no surprise that Rollerman has been hailed for merely standing in front of a military vehicle. Most mainlanders, and foreigners who know a little about the mainland's political power structure, know how bold he is. Among the social strata, the military is arguably at the top of the privilege pyramid.
It is a commonly held view across the mainland that vehicles with military plates belong to a world outside the law. They often run red lights, park in restricted areas and flout one-way restrictions for their own convenience.
Interestingly, traffic police seem to think the same way and just wink at the violations, preferring to let things pass quietly. They are not authorised to pull over the drivers of military cars breaching traffic rules.
Rollerman does not appear to have resurfaced in the past few weeks and so has not been available for interviews. The mysteries of where he comes from, what he is doing in Guangzhou and what his motives are have yet to be solved.
But the reaction to his actions shows the public's antipathy to those with a privileged background. Angry but not daring to speak out, ordinary people welcome anyone willing to perform righteous acts.
It all raises one important question - or reveals one little secret about Chinese society if you like to see it that way. Why is it that when people within the system, such as residents and traffic policemen, are unable to or dare not correct some mistakes, only outsiders can make even tiny changes?
Guangzhou is working hard to become a "China Civilised City" - a model city with better social development - and it is good to see foreigners helping it reduce improper behaviour.
And that leaves at least one big problem for local government to solve: without relying on bold foreigners, what can it do to deal with such cars in the future?
It's a big question for mainland governments at all levels and it will be a continuing shame if officials do nothing or fail to create a system that can cultivate Chinese heroes.
It's raining iPhones in Shenzhen! I would not want to get beaned by one of these.
from iClarified
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Hundreds of Fake iPhones Thrown From 18th Floor Window During Police Raid
Saturday, 14th May 2011, 09:05 pm
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Hundreds of iPhones were thrown from an 18th floor window as knockoff dealers attempted to rid themselves of evidence during a police raid.
According to M.I.C. Gadget, local authorities received a tip about an unlicensed cellphone in the Huaqiangbei district of Shenzhen.
So, the officers visit the workshop and knock the doors. No one answers so they bashed in. Four men were burning papers and documents in the apartment at that time. The officers then found ten thousands of Nokia phone stickers and not-yet-burned customers database. The database is awesome, includes all provinces of mainland China, except Tibet. However, the most surprising discovery is that four big boxes of shanzhai cellphones were thrown out of the windows before the officers bashed in. About a thousand cellphones were thrown, and that includes 656 fake iPhones with 140 cases, 284 Nokia phones with 460 cases, 69 Sony Ericsson phones.
No one was hurt by the falling phones; however, they smashed cars and fences below.
Police are reportedly cracking down on knockoff dealers since the World University Summer Games will be held in Shenzhen this August. Authorities don't want foreigners to come across these knockoff products which could affect the image of the city.
Take a look at the video below for more information...
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I've tried to embed the youtube video, but don't think I succeeded. It's worth a look.
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I hate this sh*t
From the same site, did you see this one : http://www.visordown.com/snippets/ch...ers/11601.html ?
Nasty... Those thiefs deserved to be arrested, kudos for the people around to get involved and not look the other way, but not lynched like this...
I really hate this kind of mob, hitting people when they are already down. Easy to kick someone when you're 20 against 1...
Whoa - I've heard about these mobs but never seen one in action. Scary stuff. In the "feeding frenzy", the mob could probably turn on anyone, including innocent bystanders.
I suppose this fits under the TIC thread, yesterday I had a meeting cancelled and as I had some free time I rode around on my new "scooter style" e-bike, I wanted to get it washed and there happened to be a car wash in the neighborhood I was in, so I pulled in and asked them to give it a wash
洗不了 (we can't wash it) they said, I asked why? They said it's too small... they have a high pressure hose there and the foam machine etc... I asked them again, I even said I don't mind paying the RMB20 asking price for cars.. they said "we can't wash that", I even called the manager out who also said, "we can't wash that sort of thing"... I even explained to them how pointing the hose and spraying it down with water works, but they simply did the "not interested" wave.. so I rode around the corner where there was another car wash who washed it for me no questions asked for RMB5... what idiots, they simply couldn't deal with the fact that it was something other than a car.. (and it wasn't a fancy place, just your normal side of the road car wash)...
That's really scary sh*t. Any of those people could have been that guy who walked past the guys stealing the bike in the movie thread and did nothing but with safety in numbers he's vicious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred
Serpenteza I actually have a similar story:
Me and my friend were looking for a massage late at night when the massage parlours were closed. So where did we go? To a whorehouse of course. We found 10 pretty girls sitting around chatting and asked how much for a massage. Sorry we don't do massages, sex only. We haggled them down to 120 an hour for sex then said right well give you that for a one hour massage. They refused, sex only they say. Unbelievable. How much easier is it to massage someone's shoulders that to take a big length of them. Especially from a foreigner...
Two examples of typical 死脑筋 Norther. I'm pround being 100% Souther.
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