People often jog because they don’t want to feel like a wreck — but there’s a good chance they can provoke one in Shanghai:
If Shanghaiist had a nickel for every jogger we have seen along the streets of Shanghai over the past three years, we’d have, oh, about a quarter. There is a reason for this — jogging along the streets of Shanghai will get you killed. And the Shanghai Police don’t try to deny this.
Read the rest — and the police’s proposed solution to drivers who seemingly need to take a mite better care.
TMV Thanks Simon World for the tip.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.