The house of Luo Baogen and his wife who refused to accept an unfair compensation for relocating and stubbornly remained living in their flat as allowed by law, forcing developers to refrain from tearing down their side of this apartment building Xiazhangyang, a village in Zhejiang province, China and eventually building the planned 4 lane highway around the house itself. / Photographs courtesy of AFP/Reuters/Getty Images
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What?!
Crazy!
The house has been demolished since December 2012.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9717218/Chinese-home-surrounded-by-highway-demolished.html
yes, thank you for the link…we heard it was, but havent checked when it happened :)
Wow. Why didn’t they just slightly alter the location of the highway?
:(
mad stuff…