Chinese police say they are powerless to act against the parents of a four-year-old girl who filmed her driving their car.
The little girl appeared to be driving at speed, even overtaking several vehicles, during her two minutes behind the wheel.
In the clip, which has been uploaded online, the parents, from Jinan, Shandong Province, kept reminding their daughter to concentrate.
The mother was sitting in the passenger seat, while the father sat behind the girl, who didn’t even wear a safety belt.
At one stage, the girl queued for traffic lights in the wrong lane but managed to manoeuvre the vehicle into the neighbouring lane.
Eventually the father says: “Jia Zheng, stop the car. Let Daddy drive.” He then jumps out of the back and into the driver’s seat, while the girl crawls over to sit on her mother’s knee.
The video shows the parents had fit extensions to the brake and accelerator pedals to allow their daughter to control the car.
Local police spokesman Li Xiaobin revealed that there was very little they could do, under Chinese law.
“Kids absolutely are not allowed to drive,” he said. “However, as for drivers under 14 years old, we can’t give them tickets.
“If we caught them, we could only educate the parents. In the worse scenario, if an accident happened, we could only ask the parents as guardians to compensate the other parties.”
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Viral Video Of The Day: Dancing Squid Bowl Dish in Hakodate
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Video Description:
A seafood bowl I ate in Hakodate in Hokkaido, Japan. It had salmon roe and seaweed and some other things, with the highlight being the “dancing” squid on top.
Dancing squid dishes seem to be at many restaurants in Hakodate, but this particular one may have been the only one with this bowl set. The place was located in the seafood restaurant arcade across the parking lot from Hakodate Station if anyone is interested.
Edit: I added some information in a reply comment but it’s now buried somewhere. The basic idea behind the sodium in the soy sauce causing the legs to move has been covered in the comments, but there’s still some question as to whether or not it’s officially “dead” at the time of serving. The brain is probably still in the body, but a significant part of its nervous system, the giant axon, I believe extends into the mantle, which has been cut. I’m not an expert on squids so I can’t really come to a definite conclusion about that.
As you can see in the beginning, it’s not moving at all when it’s brought out so I assume that signals around the body have stopped, whereas a fresh intact squid out of water would constantly move around. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s “dead” but it seems to me that it’s at least incapacitated.Here’s an explanation of a similar occurrence using frog legs.
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