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Bicycle repairer pets his doggie, in Beijing (photo)

Xeni Jardin at 7:04 pm Fri, Nov 25, 2011

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A bicycle repairer strokes his dog inside a storage box on his tricycle as he waits for his customer in Beijing November 24, 2011. (REUTERS/Soo Hoo Zheyang)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/superbug Maryn McKenna

    fantastic.

  • noah django

    annnnnnnnd …  posted to /n/.

  • phisrow

    I am a total sucker for that “I’m genetically engineered to love you in my fuzzy way” look puppies have.

  • Vivian Leonard

    Might I point out that there are in fact two dogs in the picture?

  • http://japansunset.blogspot.com igzabier

    nice cultural insight, cool moment, and this is so different than typical West(micro repair shop mobile maker handyman) but then same(human loving animal, human making existence).

  • avocadotoe

    Oh look, is it a Stockbroker?
    Is it a Quantity Surveyor?
    Is it a Church Warden?
    No! It’s BICYCLE REPAIR MAN!

  • http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

    Dogs  ♥♥♥

  • koko szanel

    straight from Blade Runner, just wait few hours to get dark and some acid rain

  • flowergardenslayer

    Dude’s bike reminds me of the old adage “The cobbler’s children always go bare”

  • http://twitter.com/BonzoDog1 BonzoDog1

    Cue Monty Python: It’s bicycle repair man!

  • http://twitter.com/winkytwit Neil Winkelmann

    I’ll bet he can fix just about anything. My local bike shop can too – once they order in the part – and wait two weeks for it to arrive. There was a guy who would set up repair services along the Bristol-Bath cycle path in the UK when I lived there a few years back. Can’t recall if he had dogs. Cool photo.

  • http://twitter.com/VagabondAstro Robert Little

    I initially wanted to make a statement about the whole “east vs west” mindset, but instead, I think I’ll say that this is simply wonderful. 

  • PrettyBoyTim

    There are mobile bicycle repair outfits here in the west as well:

    e.g: http://cycleserve.co.uk/

  • http://twitter.com/ALVTalk ALV Woods Natter

    they look like pedigree english cocker spaniels, i’d hazard a guess that this is a fairly unusual dog for someone to own in china?

  • needsleep99

    Preparing his dinner.

    • Aurvara

      He’s been reading about this Kobe beef lark and thought why limit it to cattle.

  • dainel

    I see the text in my RSS reader “A bicycle repairer strokes his dog inside a storage box on his tricycle as he waits for his customer in Beijing”. I think of a man on a something like a bicycle, with a small dog in a box on his bike. He’s reaching in to pet the dog.

    I click the link. Instead of what I imagine, I see a an enormous box. The man is actually sitting in the box. Along with his two dogs.

  • grimatongueworm

    Bicycle repairer pets his lunch