Chinese Butter Hero Strikes Again
Blog Entry: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009
Guangzhou government officials have ordered workers to cover a 1,000ft steel bridge in butter to prevent citizens from using it to attempt suicide.
Government spokesman, Shiu Liang, said: “We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn’t work – and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here. None of it worked – and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. Nobody can get up there and nobody who tries ever falls.”
Bridge guard, Wong Man, added: “The butter makes the bars and frames slippery and hard to climb on to, and we can easily catch them. Each time somebody threatens to commit suicide to get media attention or sympathy over personal problems we end up with several hours of tailbacks and there were lots of complaints.
“Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers.”
Read the report “You’d butter not jump” at The Sun Online.
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