Oil
Sucker
It
is not about an oil sucker tank, but an
oil sucker woman.
Ever
since pesticides became widely used on
Chinese farmlands, drinking pesticide has
replaced hanging and drowning to be the
most common method of suicide among
village women.
But
to this 46-year old lady in northeast
China, pesticide is what she washes down
her daily meal. Other drinks presented on
her dinner table include gasoline and
diesel fuel.
With
over ten years of hard drinking
experience behind her, she can tell one
brand of the diesel fuel apart from
another by … just drinking it (is that
so convenient?).
(Source of info and
original photo: 《黑龙江日报》)
Brave
Menu
From
Thief to Anti-Thief
There
are stories in the West about how
Internet hackers are transformed into
anti-hacker experts.
It
can work for bike thieves too.
A
34-year old Chinese man of Jiangxi
Province was a bike thief. And a maestro
thief in fact: in three years, he had
stolen 600 bikes.
It
all started three years ago. He left his
old job and was unable to find a new one,
and subsequently became a homeless man
sleeping in a railway square. It was
there he met his theft master. After two
days of intensive training, he graduated
and soon became a top expert in his
chosen profession - using his new
inventions, he could open a lock in just
two seconds, with the high point of his
theft career being the record of stealing
7 bikes within 2 hours. He was dubbed
Magic Thief and looked up to by the
thieves all over the country.
Yet
during eight months in prison, his
conscience pained him deeply. Once he was
out, he decided to redress past wrongs,
and that is how he became a volunteer
seminar speaker on anti-theft techniques.
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