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Taiwan's Typhoon-Bent Mailboxes Have Become Celebrities
Some Taiwanese look on the bright side of a deadly storm by posing with slumping receptacles.
When it hit Taiwan, Typhoon Soudelor was powerful enough to hurl a car down the road, ragdoll a scooter, and crush mailboxes into a drunken-looking slump.
Though locals are no doubt still bemoaning the storm’s destruction—the latest toll is about two-dozen dead in Taiwan and China—some have embraced the damaged boxes, flocking to pose for goofy pictures. They’ve become such a sensation there are now toys of them circulating. Reports the Taipei Times: