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**Wolf Pup**

What is it with people falling through the sidewalk in China?” asks Katie, who brought my attention to the above, which happened in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.

Remember the woman in Beijing who was plunged into boiling water when the ground inexplicably gave out from under her feet? How can you not remember.

Sidewalk. Walking. SUBMERGED BY SCALDING WATER. DISASTER. She would perish from her injuries, which we were told included her skin and flesh getting “almost separated.”

http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/another-...e-on-video

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 89580 04-24-2012 01:07 PM

Sorry. It was my peep hole gone wrong. I tried looking up ladies skirts over there in China, little did I know wimmin are in short supply over there.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67754 04-24-2012 04:30 PM

Really, why are they making it look like there's a firm surface by paving/concreting over a HOLE??? What is the point of that?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89988 04-24-2012 04:31 PM

Did they fall straight through to America?

**ashesandsackcloth**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Really, why are they making it look like there's a firm surface by paving/concreting over a HOLE??? What is the point of that?

Lot of sidewalks within built up infrastructer are the tops of electric and steam line conduets. Yeah tunnels under the sidewalk. Just so you know.

Booner

**ana** · (This post was last modified: 04-24-2012 05:39 PM by ana.)

an added dimension to "made in china" doomed

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89988 04-24-2012 05:34 PM

KeLiy Wrote:

"made in china" takes on new meaning

But you should trust food from Wal-Mart. Hiding3

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67754 04-24-2012 09:35 PM

ashesandsackcloth Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Really, why are they making it look like there's a firm surface by paving/concreting over a HOLE??? What is the point of that?

Lot of sidewalks within built up infrastructer are the tops of electric and steam line conduets. Yeah tunnels under the sidewalk. Just so you know.

Booner

This I know...but shouldn't they have built the infrastructure 1st?

**Currahee**

Looks like really bad construction practices.

$0.02

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 92348 04-24-2012 09:39 PM

Just imagine when our high-speed trains come from China.

Woo hoo, free market capitalism!

Go, Ron "lowest wage" Paul!

**Wolf Pup**

Currahee Wrote:

Looks like really bad construction practices.

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Yes, where are the "caution" signs? or tape?

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 89580 04-24-2012 11:04 PM

Wolf Pup Wrote:

Currahee Wrote:
Looks like really bad construction practices.

$0.02

Yes, where are the "caution" signs? or tape?

maybe they don't care about their people that much?

**My So-Called Avatar**

Rager Wrote:

Wolf Pup Wrote:
Currahee Wrote:
Looks like really bad construction practices.

$0.02

Yes, where are the "caution" signs? or tape?

maybe they don't care about their people that much?

When I lived in Taiwan, I never saw tape around construction sites. I asked someone why, and they replied that Taiwanese would just walk through it anyway. I had to walk past a construction site everyday, and people were doing just that...walking right through it...heedless to the huge beams being lifted above their heads.

**Gibbie** · **Gibbie** ^D ^D ^D whoa User ID: 49076 04-24-2012 11:49 PM **Posts: 7,187**

Wolf Pup Wrote:

What is it with people falling through the sidewalk in China?” asks Katie, who brought my attention to the above, which happened in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.

Remember the woman in Beijing who was plunged into boiling water when the ground inexplicably gave out from under her feet? How can you not remember.

Sidewalk. Walking. SUBMERGED BY SCALDING WATER. DISASTER. She would perish from her injuries, which we were told included her skin and flesh getting “almost separated.”

http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/another-...e-on-video

At least the people nearby got help immediately. In some big american cities they will walk over a dead body.

**Mike In SATX**

A previously undiscovered entrance to an underground city?