It's a freakin' war zone outside my window at the moment. My cats are hiding under the bed from the noise of the firecrackers (and larger explosive devices.)
I'm just hoping that the outside of my building was not constructed with anything flammable — one never knows until it is too late.
It's important to be safe during the holiday as we usher in the year of the tiger. Just look at what happened last month when fun and games with a stuffed tiger got out of hand:
A life-size stuffed tiger kept on the side of a road in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, scared not just a villager but also the police last Wednesday.
A villager mistook the stuffed toy for a real tiger when he saw it sitting on a lawn in Mengchang village and phoned the police. Four officers arrived on the scene but refused to get out of their vehicle.
When they noticed the tiger hadn't moved an inch in a while, they stepped closer to it and realized it was a stuffed toy.
I couldn't find an actual photo of the stuffed tiger, but the police did publish an artist's rendering:
Tags: China News
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