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Old 07-20-2009, 10:43 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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A Chinese bus company is equipping its vehicles with bricks for passengers to use to break windows in an emergency.

Ananova - Buses equipped with bricks (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3409198.html - broken link)
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Old 07-20-2009, 11:09 PM
 
Location: in here, out there
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That's going to do wonders for fuel efficiency. One wonders if there were a billion too many bricks somewhere and this was the best they could do. Maybe they were made in shapes that didn't interlock.
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Old 07-20-2009, 11:47 PM
 
Location: Bike to Surf!
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LOL, in parts of China and also in Vietnam you will see piles of bricks, flagstones, cinder blocks piled up near properties. Nearest I can figure is that they are part of some government brick quota that everyone is allocated for property improvement or something. Maybe 10% of people actually make something out of them rather than just a pile of bricks.

Most chinese busses are equipped with window-breaking hammers, but people aren't really aware of their existence or how to use them. Some 28 people died in a bus fire when we were there a few weeks ago.
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