18. The infamous “zombie attack” on a subway

A retired teacher gnawed on a younger man after being shoved for a subway seat.

(Due to horrific nature of its image, we decided to not post the actual photo.)

According to the Huffington Post, the man is a 67-year-old retired teacher, only identified as “Chen”, from Guangzhou, China who brutally attacked a 28-year-old man identified as “Wu” over a subway seat squabble on Monday, October 8, 2012. He boarded the subway at around 8:30 in the morning when he was shoved out of his seat by the younger man who scrambled to get a seat. He reprimanded the young man for not respecting the elders. Witnesses said that Chen punched Wu first, resulting in the fight. It ended with Chen repeatedly biting Wu until they were both drenched in blood.

19. “Body doubles”

Chinese elites hire people to serve their prison sentence for them.

According to Luxury Launches, the pictures above are of Gu Kailai (right), the Chinese woman accused of the murder of Neil Heywood, who hired a body double to serve her prison time. In China, the rich and powerful can actually hire “body doubles” to do their prison time for them because of the system of “replacement convicts”. The practice is so common that they even have a term for it: ding zui [ding (substitute) zui (crime)]; in other words, “substitute criminal”. This so-called substitute criminal system is just one of the many ways China’s extreme elites are able to live by on their own rules.