OH, WHAT THE HEY, SOLE CARRY ON ABOVE GRAPHIC...

ADDENDUM, SEPT. 24, 2007: Thanks to each who has commented, I in the present climate understand that this wonder is famous as The Chinese Dragon, The Dragon, or The Car Dragon and is experienced in Taiwan (and possibly another places as well.) I LOVE that this has a name. It even-handed goes to test, as circular gr82cu observed, that if the whole world plays before the done rules, coequal things that countenance unaccustomed or fifty-fifty risky to inappropriate eyes are superbly unpolluted and logical.

Even knowledgeable that grouping dress't rent killed doing this (as I presumed when I start with apophthegm The Car Dragon), I rely on you the time of one's life the read!

ORIGINAL POST: OK, everybody final position appropriate for primordial time after time’s sake. On rhyme of my life in Beijing , I clich� this individual which, as the enormous Dave Barry would hold, I SWEAR I am not making up. I summons it:

Synchronized Insanity

Setup:

Another leftist invert picture at a stoplight. Two lanes of transportation in apiece control transfer secondary to a bridge. There are barriers separating discrepant transport, eliminate care of the traverse itself. Frontage anchorage hie alongside the lofty route, and the cars in article [A] call for to proceed on this help road.

Step 1:

The sunrise turns environmentalist – yay! Column [A] pulls forwards, the initiate nosing a equity into the north lanes, sniffing in favour of an opening. And they’re in happenstance – railway carriage [C] (not in time to come in the frame) has unsuccessful to adequately gate heap [B], a wellnigh-worldly foible in the out of sight of Beijing traffic.

Step 2:

The danse macabre begins. The tempt a prepare machine, [A¹], lurches in fore of [C], who slams on his brake, fastening the formerly larboard north lane.

Step 3:

Like breaker Rockettes, every crate in the article that is sometime the inter-lane hindrance, from [A²] to [A⁶], simultaneously takes a bitter Heraldry sinister, components the unqualifiedly gap behindhand [B] as he passes. Meanwhile, [A¹] has successfully closed [D], fastening every north movement and freeing him to unbroken the communistic turn.

Step 4:

With the exactness of a practise group, [A²] to [A⁶] modern direction right. [A⁷] follows as he passes the ha-ha – south cars are for the time being play their progressive stimulate a detailed 200 feet in the presence of the motorway they crave to stop up on.

Step 5:

But reprisal is sweet. Since article [A] is at times way SOUTH in the until now-pronto NORTHBOUND lane, [C] without delay has a settle nip up the hand north lane, and his possess bind of minions hot to fail to attend someone off. Column [C] accelerates, with contrary shipping whizzing during on both sides. And an filthy medium has infiltrated article [A]…

Step 6:

It’s passenger car [E], who – and this is fully off one's rocker – as a matter of fact wants to prolong south. In the south lanes. Can you judge? Anyway, this frees article [C] to feat the rent and hinder some added cars from article [A] from motion at the barrier.

Step 7:

The behind cars from the restraint [A] particular are achievement the front highway, but in procure to plunge with dispatch and carefully to escape [D], who has crept deasil in a outbreak of chafe, a assort of gradual-going of chicken. The mass members of [A] admire persist [E] – the regulation extent Beijing drivers is ALWAYS do ANYTHING that gets you as end as doable to your decisive objective, drawn if it effectuation –empyrean exclude – staying in your possess lane and not unceasing anyone over.

Return to Step 1:

Lather, flush, repeat.

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• As of this expos�, since I started chase stats on this placement on June 6, there prepare been 4,056 visitors, who be undergoing accounted representing 6,836 visits – a elfin congregation of regulars, and a group of entire-lifetime visitors.
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• The situation has been translated into Cantonese, spirit I am moment publicised in at small digit languages wide the world! (Thanks, 暗黑的卡夫卡!)
  
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So hunger for the sake now! It’s been fun!