Quirky China: breaking traffic laws to get divorced, boys return US$1,500 and a 30kg honeycomb falls through a ceiling

The Chinese internet was amused by a marital squabble that led to broken traffic laws and a 5-hour shift at a roadblock as punishment

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A man drives through highway barriers to get divorced (left) and a student makes sure to return US$1,500 found in a shared bicycle (right). Photo: SCMP composite

Published: 12:00pm, 5 Jul 2022

The Chinese internet is poking fun at a couple from eastern China who drove through a barrier on a highway exit ramp because they were rushing home to get divorced before the validity of his Covid-19 test expired.

The man surnamed Yang, and his wife, sitting next to him in the passenger’s seat, used their van to muscle their way through the barriers to return to Yang’s hometown in southern China.

Yang said he was worried that China’s strict Covid-19 testing regime, in which residents must have valid negative Covid-19 tests to travel across the country, would make it impossible for him to return home to divorce his wife.

Stressed out, Yang decided to break the traffic rule and continued driving, reportedly quarrelling with his wife along the way.

They were caught at a later checkpoint when staff there called the local police. Yang was forced to work at the checkpoint for five hours as punishment for breaking the traffic law.

Yang reportedly calmed down during that time and made up with his wife. The couple eventually decided not to get divorced.