Not Such a Happy Valley Anymore, Is It?

When I first started read about last Wednesday’s “plot to fire poison darts at horses” at Happy Valley racecourse in Hong Kong, I’m not gonna lie, I spent a good five minutes trying to figure out how men would pull off blowing a dart through a long tube from the stands and then retreating unnoticed. Boy do I ever feel silly:

Though still considered “unwanted and weird” by Hong Kong’s Olympic equestrian chief, these poison darts were buried in the ground at the starting gates in a remote controlled device that included 12 1-foot long tubes. China’s criminal gambling syndicates have thought of everything.

But fret not, Hong Kong equestrian aficionados, as police and organizers had “stringent arrangements” already in place for the 2008 Olympics. It just would have been nice if they had been more stringent before Tuesday, is all.

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