Urumqi Needle Stabbings. Just strange.

[Razmear]

Saw this on the AFP feed:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090903...20090903195522

Snip:
"The reason for the protest was because people were stabbed by the needles," the woman at the clinic added.

The Xinjiang-based Bingtuan Television said authorities had been receiving reports since August 20 of people being attacked with needles, putting the number of assaults at 476.
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No one had been infected or poisoned in the assaults, the agency said, but it remained unclear why attackers used syringes, or what these contained.

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That comes to 34 needle stabbings a day since the 20th.
Seems odd to me, in kind of a 12 monkeys way.

eb

[Reason]

odd indeed.

[Kotin]

wow... sounds just great.