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TIL after a girl in his community was killed by a red-light runner, this 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. With his neighborhood cheering him on, he smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop, no charges were filed against him

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