The Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to Beijing

Steven Schwankert | Aug 22, 2014 1:00 pm | 4 comments | 2598 reads

Beijingers are dumping ice water on their heads.

No, it's not a hangover cure or an attempt to escape the heat of August. The Ice Bucket Challenge simply asks people to film themselves pouring a bucket of ice water over their head, and then challenging three more people to do the same, all to raise awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), formerly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, "a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord," according to the ALS Association.

Kro Bauer, Marty Handley, and Zachary Lewison of Kro's Nest pizzeria decided to kick it off in Beijing:

One of the people the trio called out is none other than Dave Bob Gasper, the Beijinger 2014 Reader Bar and Club Awards Personality of the Year. Dave Bob responded promptly:

With a number of other local personalities having already been called out, it looks like this is just the start of some icy weather in Beijing.

On a related note, in an incident that would be ironic if it wasn't so tragic, Corey Griffin, a co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge, drowned last weekend off the coast of Massachusetts. He was 27 years old.

Photo: Kro's Nest/Youku/the Beijinger

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Re: The Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to Beijing
Posted Aug 26, 2014 10:43am by Designated Drinker

Its to raise money and not awareness. If you dont donate money to ALS you just look like a bunch of D-bags wasting water in a water starved country....get it right or don't do it nor support it.

Re: The Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to Beijing
Posted Aug 23, 2014 12:41pm by artedesenyo

guess its more than enough for the very rare ALS desease.... how about the people dying in syria and iraq???

Re: The Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to Beijing
Posted Aug 22, 2014 3:28pm by anchorsaway

I think it would be an awesome idea if The Kros Nest set up a donation spot at their restaurants where Beijingers could leave some RMB for ALS research.

Re: The Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to Beijing
Posted Aug 22, 2014 3:16pm by TX_Chick

It's not just to raise awareness of ALS. Its main goal is to raise money for the research, and they've raised over $42 million.

I think it started as send $10 if you dumped the ice and $100 if you don't want to dump the ice on yourself.

So my question is did the guys/restaurants all send money?