A ‘graveyard’ of bicycles

It looks like a magic eye picture, but look closely and you can make out thousands and thousands of bike frames.

Around 84,000 bicycles have been left here at a field in Hangzhou, in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province. They belonged to bike sharing businesses which are growing in popularity around China, but have been abandoned.

Similar to the ‘Boris Bike’ scheme, people can ride off with the bikes (the first hour is free) and are asked to dock them again in one of the city’s 2,700 stations.

Instead, lazy cyclists often just dump the bikes when they no longer need them. And the companies have been slow to come and pick them up as well, leaving them to rust to avoid the hassle of reclaiming them.

The ‘graveyard’ of bikes comes from police rounding up thousands and thousands of bikes and storing them. It is not clear what will happen to them now — the Chinese government is considering how to regulate the industry to prevent it happening.

Crabs and luggage together!

Passengers on a plane got a rather bizarre surprise when they turned up to collect their suitcases from the airport carousel.

Travellers usually stand beside the conveyor belt for bags to make their way off the plane, but nobody expected to see a huge infestation of crabs.

The crustaceans shocked the passengers, who were waiting to collect their suitcases after a flight. As the carousel moved around, crabs appeared on the belt, many clinging onto the bags. Others decided to make a break for it, with one crab even managing to make it off the conveyor and leaping for freedom (otherwise known as the airport floor).

It is not known where the bizarre video was filmed, although one user suggested the incident occurred at an airport in New York. It appears that the crustaceans had escaped from a box they were being shipped in.

Published in Dawn, Young World July 15th, 2017