Shot in dark misses Cheung Chau target

Dan Wong of Cheung Chau was waiting for his ferry, and his attention turned to the video monitors at the outlying islands piers. These play endless boring advertisements to torment their captive audiences.

Suddenly a man holding a rifle came on to the screen.

'It's some sort of movie,' thought Dan.

The picture cut to a man in a Mercedes Benz. The sniper fired at the car, but the bullets bounced harmlessly off the window. The man in the car leaped out, and nipped into an office building.

The gunman again tried to shoot him, but the bullets bounced off the glass doors of the building.

Was it a trailer for a thriller? No. A company name flashes up on to the screen: Shen Fung, a firm which sells bullet-proof glass.