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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A man was arrested in Tainan City yesterday, after a speed camera was set on fire earlier this week. At around 2:00am, Monday, October 1, firefighters in Tainan City responded to a report that a speed camera was on fire on Yongcheng Road. After the fire was extinguished a preliminary investigation determined that the fire had been deliberately lit. Police investigators accessed roadside traffic camera footage which showed a man putting tires under the camera, soaking them in gasoline, and
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Police in Changhua County failed to apprehend two foreigners who were spotted sunbathing on a traffic separator outside the Changhua County Art Museum today. At around 4:00pm, two men of Caucasian appearance were spotted sitting topless on a blanket on a painted traffic divider at the intersection of Gongyuan Road and Dongmin Street. Enthusiastic citizens took photographs of the pair and uploaded them to the Facebook Group “Changhua People’s Affairs,” urging drivers to take care when passing through the vicinity.
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Taipei 101 managers have closed the outdoor observation deck of the 509 meter-high building after 2 men breached security, tied ropes to the barrier, and climbed over the top of the railings. One man was pulled back by security officers, while another made it down from the 91st floor to the 90th floor. Shortly after 9:00pm last night two 19 year-old men entered the observation deck, went to the east side, and tied ropes to the 3 meter high safety
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