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Tongren Road, wretched hive of Scum & Villainy

03/18/07

03:30:29 pm, Categories: Back in Warren PA

Tongren Road, wretched hive of Scum & Villainy

Considering most people I know already know the story, including family... I decided to reprint this story for the blog. This was originally posted on Shanghai Expat, edited slightly considering the time difference. Here goes...

I'm not entirely sure how all this went down last week, but suffice it to say, I got myself a good ass whupping that night. After the quiz night, I decided to make my way closer to the Nanjing Xi Lu area, via Tongren. Yeah, I know... "Tongren Road Sucks!" my old battle cry. But even I had to find something to do before going back to Judytown.

Well, busted up hand, face & teeth later, I certainly found something to do. (How my computer survived, I've no clue!) A gang of locals were out there, sticks, chains, pipes & all, and they were beating the living **** out of a laowai (foreigner). Tongren Road cops didn't do a whole hell of a lot.

So I did. Stupid Stupid me.

I rushed the first guy with a pipe (thinking chains hurt less) and knocked him to the ground. Then... I got my ass kicked too. Did any other foreigners jump in? Nope. Locals? yep.

The other laowai got his ass out of there, and I ended up taking his place in the scuffle. Needless to say, I've a bit of a headache today.

Whoever that laowai was, if you're reading this, you owe me one, dude. No good deed goes unpunished.

Since that incident, I do remember rushing a 2nd person, but, well... 15 vs. 2 aren't very good odds to say the least. And as last night was St. Patrick's day (or St. Sneaky Pete's day if you will), all the fun people were out in force. I was out with Alex & a few of his friends, not Shanghai locals, but Chinese locals at least. And I almost saw a repeat of last week, as... this time a foreigner was fucking with one of the locals. Took his Guinness hat, pointed to it & said, "is this mine?".

Highly unlikely.

The foreigner did actually give it back, no incident required. And the whole thing took like 5 seconds. But I did realize, apparently I'm an equal-opportunity brawler.

Sorry, no pics of the newly... renovated teeth.

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Comment from: Matt [Visitor]

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Yikes man, that sounds like a bad situation. Did your teeth crack or did they get knocked out? Either way it sucks obviously but I would think that a chipped tooth is worse in a lot of ways... Well, we'll be in Beijing this summer. Maybe we'll get a chance to meet up.

Matt

Permalink 03/19/07 @ 06:39

Comment from: Jaime [Visitor]

Good Grief !! Was it at least your already messed up tooth? Glad to hear that you survived :)

Permalink 03/20/07 @ 03:05

Comment from: eric d [Member]

· http://www.colourwolf.com

Hey Matt. Wasn't fun, that's for sure. When you get to Beijing, let us know & we'll definitely get together!

Jaime, nope. it's the other tooth. Too lazy to get it fixed too, but Grace will definitely get on me about it. Check her post today...

Permalink 03/30/07 @ 18:43

Comment from: Milo [Visitor]

Sorry but every time I have seen it in person it's been a foreigner who starts shoving, or gets aggressive under the delusion that the little Chinese guy is going to fight them 1-on-1. This is China, no Marques of Queensbury here. My wife and I rarely go out to expat bars anymore because of all the expats who think they are hot shit in China and can grab any girls ass they want- and usually Chinese turn a blind eye to it and let them. So if the guys were really the subject of "random" violence they have my sympathy (we all know those crazy Chinese with their Happy Slapping and..oh wait...) but I've seen a LOT of fellow foreigners who left their manners back west and are just whining about someone getting beat down for behavior that would have gotten them shot back home.

Permalink 05/11/07 @ 22:39

Comment from: eric d [Member]

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Damn, Milo. At least you could do is address ME on my blog. But hey, cutting & pasting ALWAYS drives the point home, doesn't it? Why bother with that whole "reading" thing. Such a waste of time.

Permalink 05/15/07 @ 13:43

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