I don't know if this made the news back
home but here's an excerpt from the Chinese news.
“Big Dorky American Saves MagLev
Train”
Shanghai – A big American foreign
devil was the hero of the moment after he helped stop an
out-of-control Magnetic Levitation Train linking Shanghai and the new
airport. The super high tech train, which achieves a top speed of
430 MPH, had a minor glitch after all the nerds on board
simultaneously took flash photography of the speedometer.
The
American, being the most excited of all the nerds, was appointed to
the job of rescuing the train via a vote carried out in binary code
that left non-nerd passengers perplexed since it sounded like they
were talking “fax machine” to each other. Nobody was hurt and
the unknown hero, said by witnesses to be “the tallest nerdy type
white person” they had ever seen was not identified but was
reportedly “very excited to take a MagLev train”. Also his
female companion was reported as saying “It's kinda funny, post it
if you want.” The meaning of this code phrase is not yet
understood.
