The Benches That Bruise Butts

“We have to make sure the facilities are shared out evenly and this seems like a fair way to stop people grabbing a bench at dawn and staying there all day.”
-An official at the Yantai Park in Shangdong province, eastern China, discusses the new method to prevent bench-hogging: sharp steel spikes, which emerge from the benches each time a coin-operated meter expires.