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Blackout no fun to riders at amusement park
Ten customers at Zhengzhou Century Amusement Park in the capital of Henan Province now know what circus performers who perform daring feats several meters off the ground go through.
The visitors were stranded in a roller coaster for more than an hour last Wednesday after a blackout occurred while the roller coaster was at its highest point.
They all descended a 20-meter-high iron ladder to safety.
The blackout also halted another ride the 120-meter-high Ferris Wheel.
The park staff had to gradually draw an iron rope to help pull the wheel around so that riders could get off.
(Dahe News)
Henan man gets 10 years for swindling his dates
A man was recently sentenced to serve 10 years in prison after he had swindled more than 70 single and divorced women in Jiaozuo, Henan.
Wang Biao, whose wife had died, swindled about 500,000 yuan ($64,000) while dating the women over a two-year period. One of them, surnamed Lu, lost more than 80,000 yuan ($10,290).
Police arrested Wang, a junior middle school graduate, in April.
His victims included white-collar workers, entrepreneurs, university teachers and civil servants.
Police said none of the victims believed Wang was a con man.
(Dahe News )
(China Daily 01/19/2007 page6)
