A news snippet from Zerohedge. Apparently, Germany is not the only place where disgruntled people drive cars into crowds – it happens in China too. While the Germans have outsourced this form of mayhem, China relies on domestic providers.
But here is the interesting part. The horrible crime took place on November 11. The criminal was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death on December 27. It is almost like China has a Constitution guaranteeing the right to a speedy trial!
6 weeks seems like a reasonable time for such an open-and-shut case. But in the US, lawyers would still be drafting their preliminary motions to delay the trial.
“China has executed two men placed on death row after separate deadly attacks in the same week in November, according to state news agency Xinhua.”
Two apparently unrelated mass murders “by SUVs”, as the late Rush Limbaugh might have said. Murders happened in November, the human culprits tried and executed by January – less than two months to see justice done.
Presumably if these events had happened in November in the US, “Joe Biden” would have pardoned the culprits instead. We don’t have to like China’s government to admire some of the things they do.
I’m slightly surprised that this one hasn’t come up before in my life, but I was just presented with the problem of folding a suit/sports jacket into a small carry-on suitcase. After several failed attempts—each of which would have ensured that my jacket arrived completely creased and wrinkled (unwearable)—I finally consulted YouTube. I have to admit I was kind of blown away by this. It works extremely well:
A few years ago I bought a Tyrolean Hat in Austria while on a business trip, and again, had the problem of transporting it in a tightly-packed carry-on (only works for “crushable” hats):
