tiny riots
Friday, March 7th, 2008day 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:
Well, they weren’t exactly looking at the shoes though. Some folks were fighting:
Here’s what happened:
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:
Seeing this, I decided I wasn’t going to hang around any longer either.
I found a nice hotel with red balloons dangling outside:
I could see them from the window of my room:
I still had the old foot rash, which was a bad thing, but I also had a fresh pineapple:
Which was a good thing.
Soundtrack: Mokobe - “Politique”
—total: 1594,3km