New York City – World’s Shortest Man Brings NYC To A Halt

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    New York City – It apparently takes a visit by the world’s shortest man to bring New York City to a halt. Cab drivers, police officers and other busy New Yorkers paused in their hurried lives to look at tiny He Pingping as he walked along 42nd Street in Manhattan on Thursday.

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    The 20-year-old Chinese man is 2 feet 5.37 inches tall. He was in the city to launch the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. He is listed as the shortest man on the planet.

    His brother-in-law told the Daily News in Friday editions that coming to New York is “like a dream” for Pingping, who lives in Mongolia and was born with primordial dwarfism.

    Crowds in Manhattan stopped to gawk wherever he went. His brother-in-law said Pingping likes the attention.

    He Ping Ping - the shortest man in the world from China is in New York City  -  Ping Ping, who is shorter than a NYC fire hydrant  poses with Police Officer Anthony Bonnano

    He Ping Ping - the shortest man in the world from China is in New York City  -  seen with doormen from the Grand Hyatt Hotel on E. 42st


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    OMG!!!!!!!!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    FUNNY

    dork
    dork
    15 years ago

    Try looking him straight in the eye…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    what brocho does one say if you see him “M’Shane Habriyos”???

    Murray
    Murray
    15 years ago

    Very Political bringing him out now. I heard that the Obama campaign was going after the midget vote. Hey, who can blame them, its a very tight vote. Midgets might determine the outcome.

    Avraham Abba
    Avraham Abba
    15 years ago

    Boruch Hashem!

    anonymous
    anonymous
    15 years ago

    yes

    yiddishe mommy
    yiddishe mommy
    15 years ago

    Baruch Ata Hashem Meshane Habriyos!

    midget inc.
    midget inc.
    15 years ago

    Esther Malka Says:

    Oi nebech far alle goim gezukt

    09-19-2008 – 10:18 AM

    ———————————————

    including you.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    to midget inc.

    why are you cursing esther malka?

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    Their treating him as if he were some sort of, well, godol…

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    On cross-country trips, he sleeps in the

    glove compartment.

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    I hope he steers clear of street-cleaning

    crews.

    Joe
    Joe
    15 years ago

    He should run for Mayor!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    he could ride free on the MTA!!!

    Spell Check
    Spell Check
    15 years ago

    For all those people with the joking comments, just grow up,,,Uh,,,bad choice of words

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I think he ought to seek a profession as a ‘Shoe Shiner”! No need to bend down!

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    He Pingping? That name takes up more spach than him.

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    His jewish name is Mr.’Klein’

    Pe'tcha
    Pe'tcha
    15 years ago

    The MTA probably made made a special turnstyle for him lest he ride for free.

    anonymous
    anonymous
    15 years ago

    He broke up with a recent date because

    they couldn’t see eye to eye

    Joe
    Joe
    15 years ago

    He got hurt once while jumping off a rug, lol

    MDA
    MDA
    15 years ago

    letz Says:

    His jewish name is Mr.’Klein’

    09-19-2008 – 12:40 PM

    ===========================================

    would you like people making fun of you when u contract a terrible desease?

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    You can blindfold him using dental floss.

    Lock & Load
    Lock & Load
    15 years ago

    Can I bring him home so my kids can play with him??

    A Live Puppet….

    Did you see him standing next to the Tallest Woman?

    What a Sight…..

    LOCK & LOAD

    Murray
    Murray
    15 years ago

    No one is “making fun of him”, that is very “small” thinking on your part. He has my vote, simply because he is for smaller government.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    It aint funny, pick your own size.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    It’s a rachmoness on such a person, but fortunately he has something going for him. He has a good humor and likes the attention. Hashem gives everyone what they need. Please stop poking fun. it’s not nice.

    big_shot
    big_shot
    15 years ago

    What does he use for a bed? Venetian blinds. I would like to wish him…ze hakatan gadol yeeheh

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Please stop with the jokes, it’s cruel.

    Murray
    Murray
    15 years ago

    Stop with the Jokes?? Is the little guy reading these posts and getting offended? Whats your problem, its not doing any harm-lighten up.

    letz
    letz
    15 years ago

    He recently lost a lot of money on the

    stock market selling short

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    maybe mrs gross should marry him !

    YAAKOV
    YAAKOV
    15 years ago

    The jokes are tasteless. Would you do the same if it were a fat person or a deformed person? I’d expect better from Yiddin.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    i asked him for change and he said he was a little short.

    he can play handball on a curb

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    i heard he is the guy who poses for trophies

    Elchonon Hellinger
    Elchonon Hellinger
    15 years ago

    He says he likes the attention…

    Fortune
    Fortune
    15 years ago

    And all you people are so called frum!!!!!!

    HaShem knows what is for every human on this planet. Goy or Jew. Have pity, you only see the outside of him not the inside and his feelings.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Please be nice. He, too, was created in tzelem elokim.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    People, please be kind. Life is too short.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Mr. Ping Ping is not the only one who is affected by dwarfism who may be reading these posts. Some commenters are very insensitive. Would have expected more from heimishe.

    And even if Mr. PingPing is not reading this, does that make it okay for you to carry on? How about the anti-semite who makes his comments behind closed doors or in his private country-club and says “hey, no jew around here to be offended, so what’s the harm?”

    Esther Malka’s got a problem too — and when idiots like that are given a public voice, it reflects poorly on the entire community.

    Midget Inc should have just let it go so that her commented would indeed have been edited out.

    yankel ben shmoger
    yankel ben shmoger
    15 years ago

    it seems to me that chinese people in general are very small is that true?althouh i think this person should make a rally and scream change like obama, he will earn lots of money.

    anonymous
    anonymous
    15 years ago

    yankel, you make no sense. why should he scream change, and why should he make $ from it?> i think he should be a public attraction, pple. should pay $ to see him and speak to him. then he’ll make $. by the way, where does he buy his clothes and shoes? is he planning to get married?

    Heimish Yid
    Heimish Yid
    15 years ago

    Actually when people feel uncomfortable with a situation and they are misinformed they say the “wrong” things and have the wrong reactions. Well what do we say when we meet someone who is so short he comes up to our knees? Should they cry? Or should they pity? Or should they make light of the situation? Or just ignore the entire person? Ofcourse he is used to this attention! And again he is used to it and actually “Likes it” …So no harm in these harmless jokes!

    yomtee
    15 years ago

    wow.but nebech ver iz am mkana

    detective
    detective
    15 years ago

    I have difficulty understanding why he should be a target, as evident in the above comments. Anyone here thought about the possibility of ”live and let live?”

    The best
    The best
    15 years ago

    This is very iteresting.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    some of the remarks are cruel, insensetive and being such yiras shomayim downright stupid since he is briye from hashem, stupid idiots