Beijing Taxi Drivers Blow Whistle On Terrorists
IT’S back to the 1930s-style policing in Beijing:
Today, the front page of Information Times, a Guangzhou based newspaper, printed a big photo of a taxi driver in Guangzhou displaying his newly-acquired counter-terrorist equipment: a whistle.
According to the newspaper, over thirty thousand taxi drivers in Guangzhou have signed up to volunteer in a “Safe Olympic Monitor” campaign. Volunteer monitors, who are mostly bus and taxi drivers, are required to report any suspicious incidents to the police immediately. Each of them was issued a whistle so they can blow it as well as call the 110 emergency number.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Whistles are also useful for the Hampton Court maze; should the Guangzhou Thirty Thousand someday visit these ever welcoming shores, they will be able to recycle them to great effect.
These are genuinely Green Olympics…
August 8th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
actually the Green bit of the Olympics is taking place in Qingdao, where they are holding the yachting and the like - the warm temperatures and fertiliser washed into the sea have combined to produce a foot thick green weed spreading for miles around the coastline - they’ve roped in the military, local factory workers and just about any passing Tom, Dick or Wang Chu to help with clearing it…