CHINA’S ‘GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD’
In China, the haves do not have to actually do the time — that is if they can pony up for a look-like. According to Slate.com’s exposé, if wealthy and powerful criminals are willing to “…spend some money, [they] remain free,” noted a Chinese anonymous police officer. The cost of a ‘replacement convict’ or ding zui seems to vary, one man paid $8000 for a ‘body double’ after a hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian while another agreed to pay $31 for each day behind bars to his ‘stand in’ after his company illegally demolished a home. Off the Great Wall’s clip shows how different a ‘substitue’ looks from the actual […]
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH…AND NOSE DEVIL RAIL
If you are looking for an off the beaten path type of holiday – one that likely no one you know has ever made – look to the Telegraph’s compiled list of the “world’s most extreme places”. This is not a Rick Steeve’s guidebook but rather a how to get to the hottest, wettest, coldest, dryest, flatest, deepest, smallest, most volcanic and highest places around the world complete with trekking and adventure guide firms. From Peru to China the twenty stops include Canada, Norway, Ethopia, South African island and, of course, Antartica.