May Day, May Day!

I must say that I prefer the system of having a public holiday on the date that it is intended, such as how things are in Hong Kong, rather than the British way of shifting your day off to the nearest Monday. This way your working week can be broken up rather nicely, as it was this week, with May Day falling on Tuesday. This allowed us to have a couple of extra beers after squash (I know, it defeats the purpose), without having to worry about going into work the next day. I awoke on Tuesday morning to find that Dim Sum with the inlaws had been cancelled :-) and went promptly back off to sleep again for another couple of hours - bliss.

The day was fairly uneventful all in all, with very well behaved attendance at the May Day marches, as is the norm in Hong Kong.

In Macau, however, things were a touch more lively. The May Day protest on the other side of the Pearl River delta turned somewhat ugly with a police officer firing his pistol into the air to try and gain order. This, however, apparently escalated things somewhat and it was quite a while before order was resumed. Thankfully none of the public who were stood on the footbridge directly above the police officer when he fired his weapon were shot, which was rather fortunate.

However some poor chap minding his own business riding his bicycle some three hundred metres away ended up with a bullet entering his neck and finishing up somewhere near his lung. Thankfully he is now in a stable condition, however it would appear that what goes up, most certainly does come down, and in this case with enough force to do you some damage. So if you have ever wondered can anyone be shot by a bullet returning under force of gravity after being fired directly into the air, you now know!

Photo nabbed from Hemlock's Diary