"Government officials in Guangzhou in south east China ordered 
workers to smear butter on all of the climbable surfaces of the 1,000 
foot long steel bridge.

Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: "We tried employing guards at 
both ends but that didn't work - and we put up special fences and 
notices asking people not to commit suicide here. None of it worked - 
and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very 
well. Nobody can get up there and anybody who tries either falls" "

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