Ping!

YIKES! Thanks for the post!!!

I wonder how many will vanish in the coming days. There was trouble in this region just recently if I recall. It's SouthWest of Beijing and fairly isolated from anything impacting the Olympics, but rest assured their government will come down hard with the iron boot to ensure there are no further distractions during the events.

Seems like the Chinese people are really feeling their oats lately. They also recently rioted after the son of one of their policemen was suspected of killing a girl and dumping her body in a pond.

As much as I appreciate the state of the Chinese people and their courage, I hope they don’t bring down upon themselves chaos and bloodshed on a grand scale.

Oh, my bad, that was Guayang that had the trouble. Seems everyone in China wants a piece of the action these days. Guangdong is due South along the Southern coast.

Stop educating me...

Watch for the Cop Worshipers to come along and say he should have paid his tribute to his masters.

After all do you know how hard it is to shake people down every day?

Unrest in communist China make my heart all warm and fuzzy.
Keep up the good work there folks.

"As much as I appreciate the state of the Chinese people and their courage, I hope they don’t bring down upon themselves chaos and bloodshed on a grand scale."

That's right. After all we all know freedom isn't worth fighting for.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

Wow! I think Huizhou is one of those bleak looking Pearl River towns you pass through while on the train or bus between Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Those pictures are really scary.

Wow...Guangdong is where my job migrated to in 2006. I hope it wasn’t hurt in the violence...it was a GOOD job!

After all do you know how hard it is to shake people down every day?

I used to work with a Vietnamese refugee who witnessed the fall of Saigon in 1975 as a child, and lived under the communists until his late teens. He told me it was totally normal for policemen and soldiers anywhere in the country to stop passersby and demand a "sidewalk tax" or a "street tax". If the person didn't hand over some kind of tribute they were in for a rough time. People going to the market place to buy food would have to carry some food or extra money with them to pay the "taxes" both directions. It would be like us taking a bag of oranges to the grocery store in order to get in the door in the first place, then buying another bag of oranges at the store in order to get out the door and home again.

Yea, well I hope they throw off their chains and rout their oppressors, the communists.

By doing so they will be revered by thier ancestors. Failure to leave a legacy of freedom for future generations will lead to appropriate questioning and loathing of the character of today’s generation by future ones.

Watch for the Cop Worshipers to come along and say he should have paid his tribute to his masters.

And here I was thinking how it was such a shame that the townspeople only killed three of those crooks...

This sort of thing warms my heart. I really, really hope things like this happen on a daily basis during the Olympics.

Fascinating (and disturbing) that the two white vans have the word "POLICE" on them in English.

If a job can walk away from you maybe it wasn’t such a good one after all. Hope you found something else worthy of your talents and energy.

Guangdong is where my job migrated to in 2006.

Auto worker? Lots o' vehicles built in Guangdong.

People of china!!!!

move to the “Head”

you need to cut off the “Head” of the Serpent.

200 Yuan is about $29. For reference, an experienced high school teacher will earn around 3,500 Yuan (US$500) per month. So, yes, the crooked cop was demanding probably close to two day's earnings from the driver.

Even "honest" Mafiaoso bosses understand that you have to make your extortion demands reasonable.

BUMP to your thoughts~

Fascinating (and disturbing) that the two white vans have the word "POLICE" on them in English.

Isn't it though? Really, English is not an official language of the PRC, so it begs the question, why?

the infowarrior

Really, English is not an official language of the PRC, so it begs the question, why?

The only answers I can conjure I don't want to contemplate.

The only answers I can conjure I don't want to contemplate.

To which we are agreed (in the spirit of "the things which make you go 'hmmmm'...)

the infowarrior

Used to work in IC wafer fabrication - entire factory moved there in 2001. Lost about 1200 jobs. Understand two other fabs from the same telecom company moved there from Eugene, OR, about the same time...

Unfortunately, I LOVED the job and the company I worked for. Studied for four years in Electronics Engineering, worked for a Telecom in US and Canada for 12 years after that...looked for a job for two years in US and Canada, but I could find nothing that payed more than half of what I was making after 12 years in the industry.

Starting September 2, I begin taking college courses in Masonry. I refuse to let the “free market” price me out of a good career ever again. I’m 45 this year and working on my third career, so this isn’t going to be easy, but I LOVE stone and masonry work, so it’s all good.

I shouldn’t have wasted my money on an Engineering Degree in the first place - but the industry seemed so promising during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s... Took me nine years to pay off my student loans and three years after that, I was OUT on my butt.

I am more determined than ever to make this work, to be self-employed and make sure that the only thing that affects the work I do is my ability and willingness to do it.

Why do those overturned white vans have POLICE written in English as well as those shields held by the policemen? Shouldn’t they be written in Chinese?

Spent much of my life in the construction industry, management end. Good masonry contractors were always like royalty. As an estimator you willingly kissed their rears for prices, and as a project super sought to keep them contented. I doubt this has changed much in the few years that I have been retired. Good Choice.