Saturday, August 09, 2008

Johnny Law on the Bar Street

Someone is actively blocking my access to YouTube as I write this.  I uploaded a video from last night, showing a police car with its siren going off down in the Sanlitun bar area.  My access to YouTube works fine, then gets cut off, then works again, then stops again.  Now the video is up but it says it’s “no longer available.”

Ironically, there’s nothing bad in it, the police are acting professionally, and when they drive away you see how festive it was down there last night.  It’s not anything the Chinese government should want to block.  If anything they should want this sort of thing to get out because it makes them look like they’re capable of having a good time.

Here’s the URL to the video.  See if you can get it to play because it’s been blocked here.

Update: It appears to be live now, so check it out.

On further review the Brazilians appear to be Mexicans.  But anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish will know what they were chanting when the police left.  The weird thing was that, when we first walked out of the bar, we heard the siren, and the cop inside was switching it off and on, like he was scratching it, and there were all these people dancing right behind the car.  We were like WTF? so we went over to look, and this was the video I got.  So you can see the dancing drunks and the cops doing God knows what with their siren.