Brazilian pirate rolls into town
By Bai Jingnan
Audiences everywhere fell in love with Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks’s star character, in the same-titled 1994 movie. A new “Gump” came to Guaixia Street, Dongchengstrict, at noon Tuesday atop a “Harley-style” bicycle, looking like a pirateThe man, a Brazilian whose real name is Alexandro, rode his modified bike all over Europe and Asia since 2003, his little dog in tow. Alexandro said he doesn’t know why he travels, but that he is just looking “for fun, for people, for everything.He compared himself to Forrest Gump, running forever on the road.