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A prick of a tour in Beijing

When I was a strapping young bloke I thought nothing of backpacking my way over European mountain ranges carrying all my belongings with me.

The older I get the more I enjoy the comforts of home and, when touring around overseas, the stability and organisation of a bus tour.

It is true you don't have the same freedoms as when hiking or driving a rental car, but you do have someone around to sort out cheeky concierges, carry your bags or pre-chew your food.

However, news just to hand has put me off travelling anywhere by bus in China.

Apparently authorities have decided to modernise the legal system and have had a good hard look at the death sentence and blowing people's brains out in public places.

Yup, the good old Party bosses have decided that - despite charging the dead villain's family for the bullet - it is too expensive to shoot so many people (about 15,000 a year - that's 300 aweek - or 40 a day) and so they are creating execution buses.

These new wheeled wonders will drive around the cities while the dead-crim-walking will be tied on to a bed and a whacking great needle stuck in their arm.

Now I don't have a lot against the death penalty - particularly for paedophiles - but bloody hell, what if the Death Truck's driver gets road rage?

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