Skip to main content

Chinese police unpack people-packed mini-van

Packing people into telephone booths in the 1950s was a lot of fun! How many people can you squeeze in? The same thing went for packing people into an old style Volkswagen Beetle car in the 1960s. All were pranks, jokes to be played out for fun. But there were no laughs among the 50 people police were helping disembark a six-seater mini-van in the Chinese city of Guiyang. All 50 passengers were on their way to work when police, not believing their eyes, pulled over the vehicle. Click here to watch
May 15, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Packing people into telephone booths in the 1950s was a lot of fun! How many people can you squeeze in?

The same thing went for packing people into an old style Volkswagen Beetle car in the 1960s. All were pranks, jokes to be played out for fun.

But there were no laughs among the 50 people police were helping disembark a six-seater mini-van in the Chinese city of Guiyang. All 50 passengers were on their way to work when police, not believing their eyes, pulled over the vehicle.

%$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Click here china van carrying 50 people video false http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/may/14/china-van-carrying-50-people-video false false%> to watch the video of the steady stream of passengers disembarking through a side door. It’s as if passengers were then going around the back of the van and re-entering by way of another door, only to go out again through the original door.

Related Content

  • Video: Passenger car gives a lift to a white van in Spain
    December 23, 2015
    Maybe the driver of the Ford Focus passenger vehicle didn’t notice at first that he had a white van on the roof of the car. Or maybe he did, as the video, taken this year, shows. However, police in the Spanish town didn’t take kindly to either the driver of the passenger car or the person taking the video, according to media reports.
  • Video: Chinese cars levitate at crossroads
    December 23, 2015
    Watch as the vehicles appear to be grabbed by some invisible power, tossed around and chucked backwards up in the air. Startled onlookers stare at the van drivers struggle to get out of their cabs.
  • Seoul, city of contemplation and the 25th World Road Congress
    March 18, 2015
    It’s been a decade since South Korea’s capital city Seoul took the bold step of replacing a major urban throughway with a park, complete with a river, to create the Cheonggyecheon Walkway. Now, Seoul is getting ready to host the 25th World Road Congress from November 2-5. The event is being produced in cooperation with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea, the Korea Expressway Corporation, the Korea Road & Transportation Association and the PIARC Korean National Commit
  • Top down parking in South Africa
    July 3, 2015
    Some events defy understanding, many of which happen on the road. But this accident in South Africa really puts gives the imagination a workout. Nobody was injured when a car came crashing through the roof of a small house in Durban, according to the Times Live newspaper. Click here for the report. A person was asleep in a room close to where the vehicle buried itself into the home. The driver, too, escaped and claimed he recalls going over some kind of ramp that launched the car into the air and over the