Beijing Olympics may encounter unexpected guests -- Add locusts to China's list of calamities

-- Micky's humble opinion: What a fiasco with Chinese characteristics! Could it be the ghosts of
Tian An Men Square massacre seeking for revenge ? --

Add locusts to China's list of calamities
Riots -- check. Earthquake -- check. Flood -- check. Plague -- check. Such a concentration of woes
in this high-profile year has fanned rumors and superstition.
By Mark Magnier
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 3, 2008

BEIJING ― First there was the freak snowstorm in February. Then the Tibetan riots in March. Then in
rapid succession the controversial torch relay, Sichuan earthquake, widespread flooding and an algae
bloom that's tarnishing the Olympic sailing venue. Just when it seemed that nothing else could go
wrong this year in China, the locusts arrived.

Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine,
frogs and smiting of the first born.

The Middle Kingdom's parade of problems has threatened to put a major damper on China's anticipated
moment of glory less than five weeks before the start of the 2008 Beijing Games.

"This sure has been a weird year," said Ma Zhijie, 20, who works in a coffee shop. "There are so
many disasters, it's hard to know what's happening."

locust is nothing... good source of protein to the chinese
peasants...within weeks these pest will be turned snacks for the
olypmpic....if not some chicken feed

ni moa dai problem

On Jul 5, 11:01 pm, "z...@hotmail.com" hotmail.com> wrote:

You know Chinese eat everything that walks on all fours, or sixes, or
eights,...

rst0wxyz wrote:

Isn't why we had the SARS outbreak?

rst0wxyz wrote:

I feel sorry for the robots..... How do you cook 'em, anyway?

Biped Pig

The old Chinese saying was: "everything with its back to the sky is for
human consumption."

Dirty Sick Pig wrote:

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