{"id":38450,"date":"2014-03-17T23:13:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38450"},"modified":"2020-07-10T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T03:13:31","slug":"fung-wah-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38450","title":{"rendered":"Fung Wah 2.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-38451 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fungwah2.0-e1395054594906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fungwah2.0-e1395054594906.jpg 490w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fungwah2.0-e1395054594906-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/4-injured-georgia-bound-bus-crash\/nfFHx\/\">Long story short<\/a>: bus headed from Queens, New York to Doraville, Georgia overturns on I-95 in Virginia on account of unsafe speed and snowy conditions.\u00a0 Four people are injured, driver is charged with reckless driving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">You know, before I even clicked on the link, I knew, I KNEW that this was going to be a story involving some Asians.\u00a0 With every passing fact, the hunch was confirmed pretty quickly, and in spite of the unfortunate circumstances that there were some minor injuries, it has me snickering with intuitive satisfaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Bus was headed to Doraville, Georgia; Doraville is pretty much all Asians and Hispanics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Bus departed from Queens, which has a massively known Chinese population<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And of course, driver of the bus is a Chinese man named Qilong Xiao<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Don\u2019t ask me why, because I really don\u2019t know how to answer it, but I\u2019ve always been fascinated with the Chinese-run econo-bus company Fung Wah.\u00a0 I have never ridden it, or any long distance bus service for that matter before, but I\u2019ve always been fascinated with its existence.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s because they charged people peanuts to go from Chinatown to Chinatown across the eastern seaboard, if it\u2019s because they had the ironic reputation of using mechanically questionable buses and\/or questionably qualified drivers.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably because their name was \u201cFung Wah,\u201d which quickly identified them as a Chinese company, and it\u2019s the sadistic Asian rivalry notion that always finds amusement in whenever their name was associated with crashes and other shortcomings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But anyway, Fung Wah was shut down about a year ago, after among all things, 60% of their buses were found to be structurally unsafe to be driven during a surprise inspection, and upon further investigation, they were pretty much shut down because they really shouldn\u2019t have been in business for a laundry list of safety and code reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Naturally, skeptics like me figured Fung Wah would lay low for a little while, repaint and duct tape all the cracks in their busted up buses, and then come back under another name, and pretty much operate similarly to how they did it under the old name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Now I can\u2019t prove it, but this has got to be Fung Wah 2.0 here, under the name\u00a0<strong>Princess Tours, Inc<\/strong>.\u00a0 Their website is pretty epic in an ironic way, since it looks like it was thrown together in an hour (By a company called \u201cToo Sexy Designs\u201d lawl), and timestamped to claim that they\u2019ve been in business since 2010.\u00a0 They\u2019re operating out of New York just like Fung Wah did, and it appears that they\u2019re tweaking their business plan a little bit, probably to throw off investigators from realizing that they\u2019re just Fung Wah 2.0, by instead of hopping from Chinatowns, they\u2019re bussing people to places where Asian people would want to go \u2013 like casinos, outlet malls, and apparently Doraville.\u00a0 The irony of all the stereotypes being perpetuated make me chuckle arrogantly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But the modus operandi hasn\u2019t changed a bit from the Fung Wah days, since drivers are driving recklessly and causing massive highway wrecks and overturning their buses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Same company (speculated), different name.\u00a0 Welcome back to the roads, Fung Wah.\u00a0 Meaning everyone else, fucking be careful if you see a nondescript white bus roaring down the road with smoke and\/or sparks emerging from somewhere, with a Chinese guy behind the wheel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short: bus headed from Queens, New York to Doraville, Georgia overturns on I-95 in Virginia on account of unsafe speed and snowy conditions.\u00a0 Four people are injured, driver is charged with reckless driving. 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