While it is true that in all countries, especially in Spain, always form small jams on the roads when there is an accident because reverse drivers driven by a morbid curiosity that I do not understand, decelerate to look to see what happened, so is that the crowds of onlookers in China are not limited to such situations.
The Chinese are ... gossips and say ... enough about something going on in the street immediately formed a circle of about 15 or 20 people watching closely to see what happens.
In a junction near my home, weekends always standing one or two police cars for routine checks. Well, those same hours if there is a large group of spectators around, like the one on the couch at home watching the soap opera of the day.
But one day, I went there, and there was an elderly gentleman, who not content with their passive role of spectator decided to take action and participate in the control. Thus it was that when the police left the passenger record and started to look at the roles of conductor, Mr., went to the open car door and got half his body inside to see if there was, I suppose, something that I had missed the agent.
Since this, I have witnessed many amazing pictures. Another day in a Hutong, a car had collided with a cycles, and say hit and not hit because the bicyclists in question was standing at the mouth throwing spears against the driver of the vehicle and there, around a crowd waiting that police arrived. Keep in mind that China is not like in Spain, when a mild shock, remove the cars on the shoulder, in China, no matter how slight the coup, the vehicles can not move an inch until bequeath the police and decide who is to blame.
But the funny thing is that the Chinese do not look from afar, no. They come much, much, much that sometimes it is not possible to see what happens in the middle of the tumult.
Today for example there has been an accident on a street near Gulou, the Drum Tower in the heart of the city. Apparently, from what I have seen in situ, a car, jumped a fence at an intersection, getting in way hand and crashing into another that came flowing through the right side of the road.
As usual a lot of passers-by had stopped to watch the scene. In fact, at this time someone just called me to say that right now, hours later, the second car being removed and there is still a group of people gathered around the crane police.
But I think the best or most amazing thing I saw was one that occurred in the same downtown street. Walking on the sidewalk, when suddenly I began to see a lot of amazing people bet on side of the road, stuck to the windows of shops, with the cars standing on the sidings, sitting on their bikes in the middle of the road, come on, missing a man shouting that the "bubble gum, sunflower seeds, candy, popcorn. "
Such was the amount of people I thought I would stop by a parade or something, because there was nothing, no accident, nor quarrel, nor anything unusual.
But suddenly, circulating in the opposite direction at high speed with sirens blaring, there are 4 police cars and a SWAT van (with machine guns and riot uniform creepy included), they all fall vehicle and head towards the door of McDonalds where they get the arm of a middle-aged gentleman, well dressed in his trousers and his pole clamp, and take it to a taxi stand in the street where the driver is shouting something incomprehensible to me.
course the scene was Hollywood movie but there was no camera. I, trying to digest the experience, in that moment I thought several things. 1, How did all these people that something would happen, "but I assumed I had missed the first part of the story, and 2 ยบ SWAT Both SMG and siren so that man did not even put resistance?
That was more than a year, and by then the language barrier that prevented me from finding out that what had happened. Moreover, as the Chinese, or the police see there is a foreigner paying attention to some type of event, quickly begin to understand that sheepishly doing there is nothing to see and it is better to see you go, which means a strong contradiction with the group of Chinese onlookers are around.
But since that day I learned that following the sage English proverb that says when there is smoke there is fire here in China, when a group of more than three Chinese together is that something happens, insurance.
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