Brickbat: Chinese Safety

Five people, including one child, were injured when a police officer accidentally fired a gun during a presentation at a kindergarten in Zhengzhou, China. The bullet struck the ground sending bits of cement flying.

Comments

[antisocial-ist]

Clearly the Chinese leos have much to teach ours. 5 casualties with one bullet is impressive, in a twisted sort of way.

[UnCivilServant]

At first glance, I thought the headline read 'Cheese Safety', now I'm disappointed that it's just a 'cop is irresponsible with firearm' tale.

[Bardas Phocas]

Ah cheese safety - Top Men are on it.
http://www.fda.gov/food/guidan.....113942.htm
INTERPRETATION: Hard and semisoft aged cheeses and pasteurized process cheese, each manufactured according to 21 CFR 133 as specifically cited above and maintained under refrigeration, are exempt from the Food Code's date marking provision relating to refrigerated, ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food.

[Steve G]

Thank god they didn't combine Career Day with Bring your Pet to School Day. Things could have been much worse.

[Will4Freedom]

I see what you did there. Cops vs Pets.

I don't think they view animals the same way in China, though.

Yesterdays pet might be today's supper.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

How do you say 'D'oh' in any of the Chinese dialects?

[Will4Freedom]

My Mandarin is a bit rusty, but I believe it's pronounced D'oh.

[LarryA]

"I'm the only one who's professional enough to handle one of these."

[Jgalt1975]

This is a bit surprising to me because I thought that Chinese police normally didn't carry firearms. (At least that was my takeaway from a 1990s-era Chinese movie I once saw whose name escapes me at the moment -- the main characters are police officers and at one point they are shown on break watching a massive shootout on some American TV show and one of the characters says that he wished that they got to carry guns; the other character tells him he'd probably just shoot himself in the foot.)

[LarryA]

It's a new policy.
China's Police Will Carry Guns Unlike Any Others
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinareal.....ny-others/

[GamerFromJump]

"Chinese police normally didn't carry firearms."

Most don't. I'm also not terrified to draw the attention of one, either.