Archive for March 7th, 2008

tiny riots

Friday, March 7th, 2008

day 120: 咸阳 (xianyang) - 咸阳 (xianyang) = 3,1km

I don’t exactly understand how, but my computer died on me because of the Internet connection in my hotel last night.

So I reinstalled the operating system and then took a walk over to another hotel.

On the way, I noticed a lot of people standing around a pair of shoes:

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Well, they weren’t exactly looking at the shoes though. Some folks were fighting:

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Here’s what happened:

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This hospital had apparently cured a patient to death. Knowing no other way to help themselves, the family of the victim showed up at the hospital entrance making a big scene. Some were even wearing the traditional mourning dress (January 19th).

After a while the police came and took some of the instigators away:

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Seeing this, I decided I wasn’t going to hang around any longer either.

I found a nice hotel with red balloons dangling outside:

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I could see them from the window of my room:

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I still had the old foot rash, which was a bad thing, but I also had a fresh pineapple:

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Which was a good thing.

Soundtrack: Mokobe - “Politique”

—total: 1594,3km