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Blow your whistle when you see a terroristPosted by Eric Mu, August 6, 2008 11:44 AM
 Information Times August 6, 2008 The August 4 terrorist attack in Kashgar and the two-day-away Olympic Games guarantee that security precautions in China and especially Beijing are going to be really tight for the next few days. Today, the front page of Information Times, a Guangzhou based newspaper, printed a big photo of a taxi driver in Guangzhou displaying his newly-acquired counter-terrorist equipment: a whistle. According to the newspaper, over thirty thousand taxi drivers in Guangzhou have signed up to volunteer in a "Safe Olympic Monitor" campaign. Volunteer monitors, who are mostly bus and taxi drivers, are required to report any suspicious incidents to the police immediately. Each of them was issued a whistle so they can blow it as well as call the 110 emergency number. The volunteer driver monitors are also required to "blow the whistle" on other taxi drivers who "don't look in a stable mental state." The authorities offer financial rewards to encourage such whistle-blowing behavior. Links and Sources
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Comments on Blow your whistle when you see a terrorist
I hope they have protection for their ears. They could really do some damage otherwise.
And hence...the war on terror is resolved.
Someone told me today that she heard there will be a terrorist attack in Guangzhou, and it will target KFC.
Why KFC? Because KFC serves fried chicken, and the character 炸 "zha" means, in the second tone, fry, and in the fourth tone, bomb.
Oh, that's what all those troops have been missing all this time in Afghan's border regions -- anti-terrorist whistles.
Maybe it's just a practical Cantonese solution on a tiqht budget, given that all our tax dollars (and apparently plenty of our police) have gone north to help the olympic effort.
明天我就去那吹哨，看看能不能引起动荡。我倒要看看我有多大能耐。
[[Point at 大门牙 and blowing whistle]]
THERE IS YOUR TERRORIST!!!
[[HANDS OUT]]
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