Friday, May 23, 2008

Tony has a cold. The Chinese "true" story about what happened at the Blue Bar.

The wife and mother-in-law took Tony to the hospital at 500 AM this morning.  He had a fever and wouldn't go to sleep.  When they came back, they told me he had a cold.

 

My wife told me the "true" story of what happened at the Blue Bar.  (I asked about the "true" part but the wife couldn't give me any reasons why it was true)  According to this version, one of the employees at the Blue Bar was from Sichuan province.  The female employee was feeling bad about the Earthquake and thought that Pub was not acting respectfully during the days of mourning.  So she sent a text message to the female reporter (the muckraker).  The female reporter came to investigate and had words with the owner of the pub.  The reporter then called 110 to inform the police.  The police came, drawing a crowd of onlookers.  The police presence was heavy because they sought to guard the pub from attack which was sure to happen as word spread.  The owner of the pub had to apologize.

From the foreigners I have heard this:  The female reporter was seeing a man who frequented the Blue Bar (a trainer at our school actually) for a few weeks.  On her website, she had actually dedicated a page to him.  The reporter had a beer before the incident started.  The employee who text-messaged the reporter was really upset that the pub made her work on her birthday.  The crowd in front of the Blue Bar was big and was demanding that the pub close.  The crowd also formed very fast to have been spontaneous.  The police have told the Blue Bar owners that the reporter is crazy.  The reporter not only called the police but text-messaged friends to come to the bar.

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