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Weirdest thing I’ve seen in China … today

Strange things happen when you live in China, and they happen frequently. As my friend Demetri frequently says: “That’s the weirdest thing I’ve seen in China … today.”

My turn — here’s what happened to me tonight:

My mom and I were riding in a taxi that got pulled over by police. The taxi stops for a bit, then pulls back out into the street and drives away. The police motorcycle immediately starts chasing the cab driver, who is now speeding down wrong side of the street. Our high speed chase is made complete by the driver’s techno music.

The motorcycle is clearly faster and more manueverable than our late-model cab. Undeterred, the cab does a couple of U-turns on the town’s main boulevard, going back and forth at high speeds on the riverside strip.

After about five minutes, the driver turned off the meter.

The motorcycle kept close chase, following the cab through lane changes, U-turns, and into many trips on the wrong side of the road. Our driver had balls of steel; he won every chicken match with the cars and trucks driving the opposite direction.

Despite the driver’s best efforts, we managed to avoid killing any pedestrians.

Somehow, after about 10 minutes, we lost the cops. We were able to quickly jump out of the cab, who sped off without fare.

Best. Birthday. Ever.

This entry was written by fil and posted on Oct 15, 2006 at 10:18pm and filed under Life. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. Aaron

    Wow, thats craziness… lol. Scary im sure… nice!

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 at 7:32am | Permalink
  2. Susana

    Whoa, did mom freak out or what?

    Posted Oct 16, 2006 at 11:59am | Permalink
  3. mikeha

    did you and your mom shoot out the window at the cop?

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 at 2:09am | Permalink
  4. kate

    Wow! And I thought Boston cab drivers were bad…

    Posted Oct 17, 2006 at 7:05am | Permalink
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    AWESOME

    Posted Oct 21, 2006 at 1:33am | Permalink
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