This was the dramatic moment when a crazed motorist staged a tense stand off with cops - by threatening his own daughter with a razor sharp samurai sword.
The horrific scene was captured after Zhang Gang, 34, caused an accident with another car and instead of stopping to exchange details tried to speed off.
But police who were in the area chased the hit and run motorist - finally stopping him 15 minutes later just outside a farmer's market at Yongren country, in Yunan province.
Terror: Crazed motorist Zhang Gang threatens his daughter May with a samurai sword
Daredevil Travis Pastrana has smashed the world record for the longest jump in a rally car by leaping 269ft in his Subaru.
He made the near perfect jump from a pier in Long Beach, California to a barge anchored in the harbour, beating the previous record by 98 feet.
His vehicle skidded sideways after landing and slammed into a safety wall at the end of the barge.
Pastrana emerged and ran up to the landing ramp where he did a backflip into the water.
Around 20,000 people had gathered to see the stunt which is part of Red Bull New Year, No Limits series.
The 26-year-old said afterwards: 'It was a wild ride.
'The flight was awesome. I couldn't have asked for anything better.'
After teasing the crowd with a warm-up run down the 1,000-foot run-in and up the take-off ramp, Pastrana did it for real, flying across approximately 220 feet of water to the landing ramp.
Pastrana said he skidded at the end because the dew had set in about 10 minutes before he took off.
Had he landed straight and stopped before the wall, he planned to spin doughnuts in celebration.
Asked about the condition of his car, he laughed and said: 'Good-ish. It's not a submarine, so I think that's good.'
The old record was 171 feet set by Pastrana's Subaru teammate, Ken Block, in a rally car in November 2006.
Pastrana, who had wanted to break that mark by more than 100 ft, added: 'There's a 40-foot window where I wasn't going to break or die, and I hit it right in the middle.'
The driver is well known for his stunts. He was the first to do a double backflip on a motorcycle, and he's gone on to win four straight Rally America championships.
In 1999, Pastrana announced himself to the action sports world when at age 15 he celebrated an X Games gold medal by jumping his motorcycle into San Francisco Bay.
That stunt got him into trouble, and he lost his prize money along with his medal.
As part of his Nitro Circus TV show, he's done such crazy stunts as riding dirt bikes off a ramp into the Grand Canyon and parachuting the rest of the way down; and jumping out of a plane without a parachute, confident that a fellow skydiver with a parachute who jumped out at the same time would catch up to him and guide him to earth.
There he goes: Travis Pastrana's car reaches the top of the ramp as it prepares to take flight
Mid air: The Subaru managed to jump 269ft across water
Almost there: The vehicle looks tiny against the skyline as it reaches the barge
Back on dry land: The Subaru skids sideways as it touches down
Close shave: The car slams into the safety barriers
Celebrate: Pastrana emerges jubilant at his new world record
World record: The daredevil has a number of stunts already under his belt
Mischa Barton was removed from her LA home yesterday by police. And it wasn't for possion of a shitload of marijuana. Details are no clear but it's believed that Mischa called the police herself after having a "freak out," whatever the hell that means. Mischa Barton was placed on involuntary psychiatric hold at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She has been falling apart in recent months and it was awful to watch. So we all should have seen this coming, and I hate seeing a beautiful girl turn into shit. From Us Weekly: "We responded to her home last night on a medical issue," Officer April Harding tells Us. "We assisted with it. She was removed from her home."
Harding tells Us no 911 call was received, and that she was not sure if Barton, 23, was in distress. When asked if the actress was cooperative, she tells Us: "I guess."
Harding did not release details on where Barton was taken, citing California privacy laws.
The police picked up Mischa Barton yesterday and at first people speculated that it was because of a toothache. But it look like it was more than that because the LAPD has placed her under an involuntary psychiatric hold, better known as a 5150. This is the same 5150 they put Britney Spears under twice in January of last year when she was acting crazy.
According to the code, authorities can hold a person involuntarily if they present a danger to themselves or others, are gravely disabled or suffer from a mental disorder.
Mischa’s spokesperson confirmed that she will not be attending the premiere of Homecoming tonight in New York. Anyway, I wonder if this has something to do when the tons of weed she smoke each year. Now, I know a lot of people who smoke the stuff and it seem to me that insanity is a bit more prevalent among potheads. I don't know if it is the marijuana or something they put in it (like LSD or something) or they were crazy to begin with but it is a fact. The first set of pics are the most recent
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born January 24, 1986 in London, England) is a British-American film, television and stage actress perhaps best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C.
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