This may be the only thing we did NOT see in the last session of the Maryland General Assembly:
Hat Tip: Wonkette
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Posted: 1620 GMT (0020 HKT)
TAPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -- Pandemonium broke out in Taiwan's parliament
Tuesday when deputies attacked a woman colleague for snatching and trying to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in a bid to stop a vote
on the issue.
Lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) charged
toward the podium and protested noisily to prevent the review of an opposition
proposal seeking an end to decades-old curbs on direct air and shipping links
with China.
Amid the chaos, DPP deputy Wang Shu-hui snatched the written proposal
from an opposition legislator and shoved it into her mouth, television news
footage showed.
Wang later spat out the document and tore it up after opposition
lawmakers failed to get her to cough it up by pulling her hair.
During the melee, another DPP woman legislator, Chuang Ho-tzu, spat at
an opposition colleague.####
