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. Four people are injured, driver is charged with reckless driving.
You know, before I even clicked on the link, I knew, I KNEW that this was going to be a story involving some Asians. 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.
- Bus was headed to Doraville, Georgia; Doraville is pretty much all Asians and Hispanics
- Bus departed from Queens, which has a massively known Chinese population
- And of course, driver of the bus is a Chinese man named Qilong Xiao
Don’t ask me why, because I really don’t know how to answer it, but I’ve always been fascinated with the Chinese-run econo-bus company Fung Wah. I have never ridden it, or any long distance bus service for that matter before, but I’ve always been fascinated with its existence. I’m not sure if it’s because they charged people peanuts to go from Chinatown to Chinatown across the eastern seaboard, if it’s because they had the ironic reputation of using mechanically questionable buses and/or questionably qualified drivers. It’s probably because their name was “Fung Wah,” which quickly identified them as a Chinese company, and it’s the sadistic Asian rivalry notion that always finds amusement in whenever their name was associated with crashes and other shortcomings.
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’t have been in business for a laundry list of safety and code reasons.
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.
Now I can’t prove it, but this has got to be Fung Wah 2.0 here, under the name Princess Tours, Inc. Their website is pretty epic in an ironic way, since it looks like it was thrown together in an hour (By a company called “Too Sexy Designs” lawl), and timestamped to claim that they’ve been in business since 2010. They’re operating out of New York just like Fung Wah did, and it appears that they’re tweaking their business plan a little bit, probably to throw off investigators from realizing that they’re just Fung Wah 2.0, by instead of hopping from Chinatowns, they’re bussing people to places where Asian people would want to go – like casinos, outlet malls, and apparently Doraville. The irony of all the stereotypes being perpetuated make me chuckle arrogantly.
But the modus operandi hasn’t changed a bit from the Fung Wah days, since drivers are driving recklessly and causing massive highway wrecks and overturning their buses.
Same company (speculated), different name. Welcome back to the roads, Fung Wah. 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.
