Kindergarten playground politics, all grown up. Here’s what happens when poorly raised children grow up to become bratty adults with no self-control or anger-management skills.
I initially saw the May 08, 2007 article back in, well.. May, and was a bit surprised at the immature behavior exhibited in such a public forum. I’ve since done some more digging and found that this is not outrageous, as it ought to be - it’s merely par for the course here. I should have guessed as much, based on classroom, traffic and other unacceptable behavior I’ve observed and been subjected to. It’s just another case of undisciplined, selfish children hiding in adult bodies.
Grab a bag of chips or popcorn and prepare to be entertained and astounded by the antics of (in these articles, anyway) Asian lawmakers. This is the kind of stuff that movies are made of, where we then ridicule it as being far-fetched and unrealistic.. Only these incidents really took place - the BBC says they’re so!
I was driving home from work one day (March 23, 2007 - yeah, I’m catching up..) from Fengshan City, just east of Kaohsiung on Jiouru Rd, a rather large 4 lane road in the middle of the city with NO farms anywhere nearby, so hearing chickens clucking was more than a bit odd and out of place. The fact that the intermittent sound of the chickens stayed ahead of me was also strange (I had originally assumed they were along the side of the road), until I realized that some farmer must be taking his chickens to market somewhere and I just hadn’t met up with the truck yet.
The biggest surprise came when I actually caught up to the chickens:
If you look very closely, you can see smoke coming from the chickens nearest the tailpipe, on the right (click the picture to view it full-size). I always knew they did something special to give Asian food that distinctive flavor..
I can’t exactly tell, but I think there are around 12 chickens hanging from the back of the scooter. Plus, the woman had a large laundry basket of chickens between her legs with five or six birds, and the basket on the front of the scooter had two or three more. I think it’s safe to say there are around 20 chickens on this scooter.. I’ve definitely witnessed some crazy things in traffic here, but this is definitely one of the most unique!
Kindergarten playground politics, all grown up. Here’s what happens when poorly raised children grow up to become bratty adults with no self-control or anger-management skills.
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