China Scene: West

Drunken businessman bites off more than he can chew

A 26-year-old steel products salesman had so much to drink on Wednesday night in Chongqing municipality that he started to chew his cell phone - even going so far as to swallow its SIM card - when police intervened over him being drunk on board a public bus.

Fellow passengers said the man spoke nonsense from his seat, before falling over and acting crazy as the vehicle passed through a roundabout in the city's Shapingba district.