Urban planners in Wenling, China wanted to demolish this old apartment building to make room for a new highway to the local train station. However, four residents of the building said the Chinese version of “screw that noise” and stayed put in their home. In a stunning display of douchebaggery, the city council went ahead and built the highway anyway… completely surrounding the building in question. Yeah, the whole “People’s” part of the name “People’s Republic of China” is a little fuzzy here.
harry p. says:
the first one explains a lot,
MAFF B HURD!!!
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30th November 2012 at 3:39 pm
AWD says:
Why are all devout Christians fat slobs? Isn’t gluttony a christian sin?
Wearing fleece pajamas in public is the new “cool thing”, especially for the FSA. They proudly show they have no intention of ever getting dressed, off their couches, or going to work. Perma-pajamas, a badge of FSA honor. People come into the ER and go to Wal Mart in full fleece pajamas (that usually smell bad). Of course, Wal Mart has a huge selection.
Not available in the U.S yet
Merry Christmas, the shitter was full
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30th November 2012 at 4:05 pm
AWD says:
This looks like the same guy that was getting $20 to get kicked in the sack,
now he’s a gigolo…
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30th November 2012 at 4:49 pm
ecliptix543 says:
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Isuzu truck actually belongs to Hope.
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30th November 2012 at 5:05 pm
Chicago999444 says:
I really sort of LIKE the “douchebaggery” of the Chinese government in building the highway around that building.
What I like is that they let the place stand.
Here in the U.S., they would have condemned the building, forced the owner to sell at whatever the authorities deemed the property worth, and evicted the previous owner and tenants, then bulldozed the building to make way for the highway.
This “solution” at least lets the owner and tenants stay in place and shows a modicum of respect for property rights, and it’s much better and more humane any solution we would have come up with in the U.S.
My congrats to the owners for standing their ground. In a couple more decades or less, they’ll have that highway all to themselves.
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30th November 2012 at 10:36 pm
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Lone Chinese home destroyed; farmer accepts deal
By GILLIAN WONG, AP
Sat Dec 1, 3:47 PM UTC
Authorities have demolished a five-story home that stood incongruously in the middle of a new main road and had become the latest symbol of resistance by Chinese homeowners against officials accused of offering unfair compensation.
Xiayangzhang village chief Chen Xuecai told The Associated Press the house was bulldozed Saturday after its owners, duck farmer Luo Baogen and his wife, agreed to accept compensation of 260,000 yuan ($41,000).
There was no immediate confirmation from Luo, whose cellphone was turned off Saturday.
The couple had been the lone holdouts from a neighborhood that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.
The razing comes a week after images of the house circulated widely online in China, triggering a flurry of domestic and foreign media reports about the latest “nail house,” as buildings that remain standing as their owners resist development are called.
Luo, 67, had just completed his house at a cost of about 600,000 yuan ($95,000) when the government approached him with their standard offer of 220,000 ($35,000) to move out — which he refused, Chen has previously said. The offer then went up to 260,000 yuan ($41,000) last week.
It was not immediately clear why Luo accepted the compensation in a meeting with officials Friday afternoon when the amount of money offered was the same as a week ago.
Village chief Chen said Luo was tired of all the media attention and voluntarily consented to the deal. “Luo Baogen received dozens of people from the media every day and his house stands in the center of the road. So he decided to demolish the house,” Chen said.
Authorities commonly pressure residents to agree to make way for development with sometimes extreme measures, such as cutting off utilities or moving in to demolish when residents are out for the day. In Luo’s case, however, he had told local reporters last week his electricity and water were still flowing.
Real estate is one of the big drivers of China’s runaway growth in recent decades. But the rapid development has run into objections from many of the hundreds of thousands of residents who have been forced out to make way for new housing, factories and other business ventures, creating a major source of unrest.
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30th November 2012 at 1:58 pm
Administrator says:
I’m sure he willingly accepted the $41,000 for his $95,000 house. It’s a great deal.
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30th November 2012 at 2:00 pm