If you’ve got a blog and you’re struggling for something to write about just pick up a copy of China Daily and flick to the China Scene page, you’ll have a million (ok, 2 or 3) things to write about.

I remember picking up a copy on my first trip to China and reading about some kidnappers who’d got an agreement from a young girls father to pay the ransom, so they let the girl go, before they got the ransom… Imagine their surprise when they turned up to pick up the ransom and promptly got arrested by the police..

Anyway, I picked up a copy on a flight to Korea on Wednesday, there’s the usual gold in there:

Mouse Fights

Li Rongfu of Dongguan has a mouse which weighs 12kg (about the size of a large sack of potatoes) and challenges any cat to fight it, if the cat wins they can eat the mouse as reward, it has already beaten all local cats. Apparently it was only 1.5kg (one and a half bags of sugar) when he found it but he’s been feeding it for eight years.

I’ve got a couple of issues with this story:

• Mice only live for about a year and half, three years at most, but eight years???
• 12kg??? I’m guessing that’s 3 times heavier than a typical cat

Surely this is just an ugly dog!!

Turtle Crash

Li Shaoping was ordered to pay compensation to a female pedestrian with a broken bone after crashing into her. The reason for the crash? the two turtles he was transporting in his van had crawled under the brake pedal and he couldn’t stop.

After nearly 4 years in China this story doesn’t surprise me at all..

Man Cuts off Penis

A 33 year old man cut off his old chap after rowing with his wife, he was rushed to hospital where doctors sewed it back on, the surgeon said “that’s the most serious case of its kind I’ve ever seen”

How many cases of completely cutting off your tallywhacker can a man see in a career? and how can any one be different from the others?

This is my favourite one:

Poor Lover Forges His Way Into Prison

A man from Tongzhou District, Beijing called Song was sentenced to 1 year in prison for faking official documents.

Apparently his girlfriend was threatened by a man earlier in the year and gave Song 1 week to find him or she would leave him.

Song couldn’t find him so he forged a Police certificate saying that the man had been detained. She was incensed at his failure so she called the police and reported him..

You know, this story would have surprised me until I read Woai’s crazy story