CSI: Shanghai

Now and again I've made light of a not so great situation. Even though this may seem humorous at times the following was the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in Shanghai, no make that ever.

I woke up on Sunday morning, trying hard to make a mental note that Sakae and I should never hang out again, and made my way to the couch. As I was settling into a nice lazy morning/afternoon, I looked out the window onto the roof top of the building across the street. There on the roof was a man lying on the roof. My first thought was that maybe it was a homeless person but as several police showed up and then the guy with the shiny silver briefcase. My friend Denise and I spent much of the morning watching what happened. From the body language of the police, we decided that the man must have jumped of a higher building and landed on the roof of the lower one. In the end after they police had examined the body, they didn't put it on a stretcher. They wrapped the body in a white sheet and lowered it off the roof with ropes.

There was a novelty at first, but as the whole thing played out and we realized what was going on... well it was extremely strange and I still don't know really what to think about the whole event.