A woman held up traffic outside of Diwang Shopping Plaza in Zengcheng this past Wednesday, where throngs of onlookers gathered to watch her strip dance.
When police arrived mere minutes after the episode, they found the woman belting out ethnic songs incoherently – a result, they discovered, of being swindled by a taxi driver an hour earlier.
According to police, she’d offered her driver a RMB100 bill, but when he refused to give her change in return, she agreed to wait for him to exchange the 100-yuan note for smaller bills. At that point, Tencent News describes her behavior as ‘normal,’ though we’d like to point out that she seems abnormally gullible, given the well-documented deceitful behavior of taxi drivers in our city.
Not surprisingly, the woman's driver never returned, and when another taxi driver kindly informed the woman that he would “never be coming back,” she began tearing up money from her wallet and frantically dancing around.
Police eventually had to drag her to a nearby police station, where they let her rest before questioning her further. When she finally came to, they learned the motive for her spontaneous performance and, after a brief chat to ‘educate’ her about the consequences of disrupting public order, sent her on her way without a fine.
In response to the incident, Chinese state psychological counselor Deng Zanpeng reportedly said that when faced with a sudden dilemma like being cheated out of money, it’s best to just “concentrate on something else” and not, you know, strip dance.
[Photo via Tencent News]
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