I was going to write about how the Chinese traffic police always seem to have their car’s emergency lights flashing. I was going to go through the different stages of trying to work out the flashing lights rationale:

1. When they are driving the lights are flashing

2 When the engine is running the lights are flashing

3. When they are in the car the lights are flashing

Number 4 was the doozy:  I saw a bunch of police standing around their car, sipping bottled tea and eating steamed buns with the lights on the car flashing.

Unfortunately, yesterday I saw a police car drive past without its lights flashing, so my whole theory about police cars rolling off the assembly line with their lights flashing was ruined.

Here is a picture of some police. Notice the lights are not flashing. That’s because they aren’t traffic police.

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