Two Americans were stabbed in Beijing today by a crazed Chinese man who then immediately committed suicide. The victims were a man who was killed and a woman who was injured, both relatives of a U.S. Men's Volleyball Coach. The stabber, a 47-year-old man from Hangzhou, then threw himself from the second story of the site of the attack, the 13th-century Drum Tower three miles from the main Olympics site.
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It's just like I always say: Those Chinese need better knife control. If they didn't allow people to own knives, this would have never happened.
hehehe @ scout1. Could be worse, they could have been beheaded on a Greyhound in the middle of nowhere.
What we need is better jackass control, so comments like yours could never happen on Gothamist.
Don't forget about the other injured person in this story. Their female Chinese tour guide.
Not that this is any kind of explanation of this attack, but there are a lot of chinese who have been whipped up into a sort of anti-U.S. nationalist hysteria. It's always been safe for americans to visit most parts of China, but I always wonder how all this kind of tension gets released.
Invade and convert to democracy! Oh, wait...no oil reserves.
Carry on, China.
And then people wonder why most Americans pose as Canadians when abroad?!