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Woman spotted in Taichung City walking around without a mask or PPE

woman walking around Taichung City naked
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A woman in Taichung City caused tongues to wag, and sent the local media into a frenzy yesterday, after she was spotted walking around without wearing a surgical mask. The woman was seen near the Zhonghua Road Night Market, June 11, at around noon. Not only was the woman not wearing a surgical mask, but she was not wearing any kind of personal protective equipment (PPE) at all. Carrying only a large, black handbag, and donning a pair of slippers,

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Taipei City Mayor accidentally flips the bird during live broadcast

Ko Wenje accidently gives the finger
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Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je appeared to be giving someone the finger during a live broadcast today, May 18, but it turns out that he was just trying to make a point. Mayor Ko said that there was good news amidst bad today, noting that the percentage of positive results at rapid testing stations in the city had fallen from 11% on the first day, to 4.7% today. Ko explained that on the first day of rapid testing, May 14,

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Mystery “jetpack man” flying over Taichung City was just a balloon

Iron Man balloon over Taichung City
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An alleged case of a man with a jetpack flying over Taichung City that was widely reported in Taiwan’s local media today, May 11, turned out to be just a balloon. Most local media outlets reported the story this morning that a man was seen flying by jetpack over a densely-populated part of the city, after a video taken on May 5th went viral on social media platforms. Even English-language outlet Taiwan News reported the “mysterious man flying in the

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Taiwan’s Pokemon Go Grandpa upgrades array to 64 phones

Taiwan's Pokemon Go grandpa with array of 64 phones
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A Taiwanese man who made international news headlines two years ago for using 11 phones at a time to play Pokemon Go, has since increased the size of his array to 64 smartphones. Chen San-yuan was featured in a BBC report August 2018 after being spotted with an array of 11 smartphones mounted to the handlebars of his bicycle. At the time, Chen was planning to add 4 more phones, BBC reported. Chen was 70 years old at the time.

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Man suffers electric shock after climbing onto train roof

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A 26-year-old man suffered burn injuries to his lower body, after he clambered onto the roof of a train and came into contact with overhead power lines at Wuri Station in Taichung City, yesterday, February 3. A train conductor was called to one of the train carriages shortly before the incident at around 1:15 pm, after receiving a complaint that a man was harassing passengers on the local commuter train. The offending passenger, named Wu, alighted from the train after

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Banana man outshines competition at Nantou County lantern festival

bananaman lantern in Nantou County
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A 10-meter-tall rotating, singing rat that takes selfies complete with flashes and clicks every thirty minutes is the official central attraction at the Nantou Lantern Festival this year, but a lantern named “Banana Brother” is proving to be one of the most outstanding exhibits. The festival kicked off on January 18, spanning the Lunar New Year holidays, and running until February 9. Divided into 15 themed subject areas, the lanterns are arranged to illuminate various aspects of Nantou County, its

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Electric scooter rider uses claw machine arcade as free park and charge station

electric scooter park and charge in claw machine arcade
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A woman in Taichung has been charged after parking her electric scooter inside a claw machine arcade in Taiping District two times, and leaving it to charge overnight. The owner of the claw machine arcade noticed the incident when reviewing security monitor footage. The footage showed the woman riding her scooter into the arcade with two children and another woman late in the evening September 5, leaving it parked and plugged in overnight. The arcade owner uploaded pictures of the

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Man gets stuck after putting arm in claw machine

man with arm stuck in claw machine
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A man in Tainan city was stuck in an awkward position after putting his arm into a claw machine, in an attempt to grab a stuffed toy that fell into the hatch, but didn’t make it all the way down, Sunday evening. The man, named Du, successfully clipped a large, stuffed, Snoopy doll, and managed to maneuver it into the top of the hatch, but it failed to fall all the way into the retrieval bay. Mr Du called the

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Man dressed as woman caught taking pictures in university’s female dormitory bathroom

suspect dressed as female to enter university dorm
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Police arrested a man at Tamkang University this morning after he was found in the bathroom of a female dormitory with a spy camera. The 24-year-old man, named Chen, was dressed in a skirt and a wig, and is suspected of having sneaked into the dorm by following a resident into the access-card-secured building. Shortly after midnight, residents noticed Chen on the fourth floor of the building. Despite 180-centimeter-tall Chen’s disguise, the residents thought his appearance and movements were suspicious,

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Pro China-unification leader falls into his own coffin in protest cock-up

Chang An-lo falls into his own coffin
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The leader of the extremist minority party – the China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) – became a laughingstock when a protest stunt backfired and he fell into a coffin today, Tuesday, February 26. Chang An-lo, also known as “the White Wolf,” took umbrage at comments made by Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌)  the other day, after Su said that he would fight against China with just a broom, if that was all that was left. “You would pay a price if

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NT$18,000 Forensics Tests to solve theft of NT$59 Bottle of Yogurt

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A university student in Taipei City forced police to run DNA tests to identify which one of her roommates consumed a bottle of drinking yogurt valued at NT$59 dollars. The tests are estimated to have cost the public NT$18,000, according to an Apple Daily report. The woman who is unnamed in the report, left the bottle of yogurt in the refrigerator in the house she shares with 5 other roommates of the private Chinese Culture University. After finding the empty

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