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Diary reading awakens comatose wife
By reading the pages in diaries he wrote continuously for 150 days, an elderly man in Wuhan of central China's Hubei Province managed to awaken his wife from coma after she was hospitalized for a stroke, Wuhan Evening News reports.
Every evening after finishing his chores, Wang Licheng, a retired teacher at a local middle school, would read to his ill wife, Guo Yizhen, from his diary, sometimes with tears in his eyes.
His efforts paid off after five months - he was surprised to find his wife looking at him with tears flowing down her face while he was reading diary last week.
Guo said that the first thing she would do after being discharged from hospital is to arrange for the preservation of the precious diaries. *** Toddler drives sedan to roadside restaurant A two-year-old who was left alone in a sedan by her careless parents started the vehicle by accident and drove it on to the street, reports Chengdu Commercial News. On Sunday afternoon, several patrons were having lunch along the roadside when they saw a car with a little girl in the driver's seat drive slowly towards them. After banging against several tables, the car finally came to a stop. A young couple then appeared and said they were the girl's parents; they had put her in the car to play but forgot to take out the key. *** Bar customers pay 20-50 yuan for punching others
A bar in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, provides a new service to its customers - they can beat up several young men to vent their anger or fight depression, reports Jinling Evening News.
Around midnight every day, the deejay invites customers to go on to the stage and take a swing at the young men hired specifically for the purpose.
Men pay 50 yuan (US$6) each and women, 20 yuan (US$2.40), for two minutes' of punching. And, it is reported that those taking up the offer are usually aged between 20 and 30, a majority of them women.
*** Woman gets mother's savings 26 years later
A 60-year-old woman got more than 170,000 yuan deposited in a savings account by her mother 26 years ago, Yantai Evening News reports.
Jiang Mingjun has been living in Japan for almost 30 years and when she visited her parents' ancestral home in January after more than a quarter of a century, she recalled her mother depositing 30,000 yuan (US$3,600) in a bank in 1978.
Both her parents have since passed away, and the deposit receipts were lost in a fire; but the bank returned the original amount with years of cumulative interest. *** Cornered thief calls for police help Unable to flee after trying to commit robbery in a local community, a man in Dandong of Northeast China's Liaoning Province had to call police for help, Liaoshen Evening News reports. When Zhang tried to steal a bus from a local public transportation company at 7 am on Friday, he was discovered by Song, a worker in the company, who chased after the thief with colleagues in tow. In his haste, Zhang ran into a residential building, only to find himself trapped since more than 40 people had blocked the only exit in the building. In desperation, he dialled the emergency hotline so that he could avoid a beating by the angry crowd.
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