▲ 272 ▼ A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 2 years ago by roastedDeflator@kbin.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.
[–] Aatube@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) Apparently they didn't notice until photos of the violation went viral online permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Like I said. The weakest form of enforcement possible. Their policy accomplished nothing here, and somehow they were proud enough of that nothing to try to get papers to crow about it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* Chinese papers didn't crow about it: the marathon released a statement on Chinese Twitter, the freaking Daily Mail somehow managed to pick up on it, and then Business Insider™ then re-reported the stuff reported by Daily Mail with s'more links to the sources. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Like I said. The weakest form of enforcement possible. Their policy accomplished nothing here, and somehow they were proud enough of that nothing to try to get papers to crow about it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aatube@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* Chinese papers didn't crow about it: the marathon released a statement on Chinese Twitter, the freaking Daily Mail somehow managed to pick up on it, and then Business Insider™ then re-reported the stuff reported by Daily Mail with s'more links to the sources. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aatube@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* Chinese papers didn't crow about it: the marathon released a statement on Chinese Twitter, the freaking Daily Mail somehow managed to pick up on it, and then Business Insider™ then re-reported the stuff reported by Daily Mail with s'more links to the sources. permalink fedilink source parent