China Scene: East

Long goodbye nearly costs woman her luggage

A man accompanied his girlfriend to the train station at Nanchong, Jiangxi province, so he could see her off ahead of her trip to Beijing.

He helped her put her luggage on board, and the two said their passionate goodbyes on the platform.

The couple became so engrossed in their farewell kiss that they did not notice that the whistle had blown and the train was pulling out of the station. Only after the train had departed did the girl notice she had missed it.

Workers at the station contacted the conductor, who promised to hold on to her luggage. She caught another train leaving for Beijing two hours later.

(Jiangnan Metropolis Daily)

Boar's visit to museum ends in men's stomachs

At around 6 am on March 27, security

guards at the China Silk Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, spotted a boar that had found its way onto the museum's grounds.

They feared that the aggressive beast might end up hiding in one of the museum's many courtyards, posing a risk to visitors when the museum opened later that day.

They tried to catch the boar, but it kept running away.

It finally gave up the chase and fled the grounds, but its luck ran out when it passed six hungry migrant workers. They killed it with the shovels, harrows and rocks they had at hand and took it away in their truck with plans to feast on its meat.

(Modern Express)

(China Daily 04/09/2008 page6)