Chinese Butter Bridge Hinders Jumpers
A thousand-foot-long bridge in southeast China is providing an essential lesson in that country’s culinary tastes: The Chinese are not wild about butter.
The proof is in the fact that Guangzhou authorities have resorted to coating the bridge in butter, in order to hinder suicide attempts and the traffic jams they cause. The result is surfaces too slippery for even the most desperate person to climb. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Get a grip!”
The bridge has been a favorite for some time among people looking to end it all, and officials did everything they could think of to discourage the practice. They put up fences, they positioned guards at each end, but ultimately nothing worked.
That’s when someone presumably discovered a mountain of butter sitting idle in a warehouse somewhere. In the States, we would have put that stuff to good gastronomical use, and left our bridge-coating to lard or Vaseline. But the demand for butter among the Chinese isn’t huge—who knows how long it might have languished in storage?
On the brighter side, the situation may have the makings of a potential Guinness record. As we butter lovers are well aware, that greasy stuff eventually has to go rancid. When it does, Guangzhou may end up being the proud owner of the World’s Worst-Smelling Bridge.
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By DanBing on 20-09-2009
Comment by Pamela
September 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Funny,very funny. Maybe we can trade them butter for rice.
Comment by Ryan Lee Hannant
September 20th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Its called barbed wire.
Comment by Chris
September 20th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I definatly wouldn’t want to be around when it turns rancid!
Comment by wambat#9
September 21st, 2009 at 12:47 am
one sniff is worth one thousand pictures
Comment by Will Hiro Akemi
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
woah..O.o
really?wait so suicide is like a normal everyday thing in China?woooo….weirdd..
Comment by Turkey Fryer
September 24th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Ohh I bet that stinks pretty bad. How awful that there is a specific bridge that people go to when they want to end their life! And I can't believe the authorities are actually annoyed enough to coat it in butter. I guess it's not just an every day occurrence where I come from.
Comment by Latest Updated News
September 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
what?
the chinese officials put butter on the bridge??
eww
Comment by Zak
September 27th, 2009 at 7:13 am
whats wrong with vandal grease or barb wire?
Comment by John Burns
October 16th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Brilliant! I'm going to include this in the wierd news section of my Comedy Podcast. i think the downside is that hungry men might come and eat the bridge. They could fry it with a little garlic.
John
Purple Comedy