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A Chinese man who chain-smoked his way through a marathon was disqualified for smoking on the course (www.businessinsider.com)
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A Chinese man was disqualified from the Xiamen Marathon for chain-smoking during the race, violating a new rule against uncivilized behavior.

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[–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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