#5. Chinese “Nail Houses”
” If you’ve been paying attention for the last 15 years or so, you know that China is like a rapidly but awkwardly developing teenager — they’re growing so fast that their pants don’t fit right, and theirboobs are a little lopsided. In the midst of all this haphazard and frantic development, there are a few people who refuse to vacate their government-owned homes to make way for new Chinese strip malls. Builders call them stubborn nails because they won’t budge.”
” In 2007, Wu Ping and her husband, Yang Wu, refused to give up their home in Chongqing to make way for a shopping mall. Officials tried to keep them off the property (they’d excavated the area around it so that it was situated in the middle of a massive pit), but they woefully underestimated how utterly badass this particular couple was. Yang was a martial artist, so he managed to scale the cliff leading up to the house using a pair of f@#*ing nunchakus; after Chuck Norrising himself to the top, he unfurled a Chinese flag from his roof, as well as a banner that said “no violation of legitimate private property.” “
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