Because Umbrellas Don't Work

I've covered this ground previously (so to speak), but it's time for a quick refresher.

As the nature of Hong Kong is high-rise buildings, it's only natural that from time to time items will be blown or knocked off terraces or rooftops, by accident. But wind doesn't explain a 25-inch television set falling from a housing estate at 8.30pm. Perhaps a local resident finally got fed up with the lousy programming.

It reminds me of Scissors in the Skull, written in 2006.

But the TV isn't the only thing that's dropped lately. In the past four weeks the following objects have either fallen or been pitched from high spots:

· an air conditioner;
· an aluminum window;
· a sledgehammer;
· a 1.5-metre metal bar;
· a metre-long metal bracket;
· a piece of concrete;
· a pair of scissors;
· a chopper;
· a laundry pole.

This doesn't include the bottles of highly acidic drain cleaner that some wacko has been tossing into busy shopping areas in Mong Kok.

The moral of the story is: if you're a pedestrian in Hong Kong, it pays to walk beneath a building's concrete canopy when it's available.

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