Okay, this is an excellent “suicide voyeur” chaser: an unidentified naked man ran out into the middle of traffic in eastern China this past Friday, stopping a taxi as he crossed in front of it. As the driver got out to see what was going on, the man suddenly grasped the front of the vehicle and tried unsuccessfully to lift it. He was heard several times to shout “please give me strength!” by the growing crowd of curious citizens, though his entreaties failed to grant him the power he desired.
The police soon arrived on the scene, but were unable to restrain the man, who then crawled under a police van and refused to come out. He was removed from beneath the vehicle by the combined efforts of police and medical staff members shortly thereafter.
This is the kind of thing we need the Internet for! No one gets hurt, a smile appears on everyone’s face, and moods are refreshed. The strangest thing about this news story isn’t the fact that it happened, however — what’s weirder is that I’m completely unable to come up with any sort of pun-based wordplay to offset the matter-of-factness of this post’s title. Seriously, I don’t know what’s happening here. There have got to be just scads of great nudity-centric jokes to be made, but not a single thing is popping into my noggin. What the hell’s wrong with me?
Oh, wait, you know what it is? It was the previous story that knocked all the humor out of me. But that’s the Internet for you: pushes you down one minute and helps you back up the next. Bravo, World Wide Web; you win again.
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