Weddings are chock full of ceremony and duty. Particularly for the best man. It could be booking the hotel rooms or finding an additional supply of champagne glasses. Or as a local cop found out recently, taking the bride to hospital.
婚礼充满仪式感和责任感。尤其是对于伴郎来说。 它可能是预订酒店房间或寻找额外的香槟杯供应。或者正如当地警察最近发现的那样，将新娘送往医院。
On 29 January at around 10:00, officer Xu Yunzhong, with Jiangsu’s Xuzhou Traffic Police, was on duty as usual, stationed at a local expressway toll point.
1月29日上午10时左右，江苏徐州交警徐云忠民警照常在当地高速公路收费站执勤。
Then the duty room called through instructions to attend to an accident that had occurred on the Lianzhou to Huozhou Expressway. There had been a rear-end collision and a person was injured.
随后值班室接到指令，要求处理连霍高速发生的一起事故。发生追尾事故，造成一人受伤。
But the vehicle in question also just happened to be a wedding car, and the injury had been sustained by none other than the bride herself.
但涉案车辆也恰好是一辆婚车，受伤的不是别人，正是新娘本人。
The police arrived at the scene and found that a small white car had rear ended the wedding car, the occupants of which were the groom, his bride and a bridesmaid.
警方赶到现场后发现，一辆白色小车追尾了婚车，车上坐着新郎、新娘和伴娘。
Officer Xu very quickly found himself playing the role of impromptu best man, taking on responsibilities to ensure the safety of the bridal party at the roadside and attending to the bride’s injury, that fortunately was not serious.
徐警官很快就发现自己扮演着临时伴郎的角色，负责保证路边迎亲队伍的安全，并照顾新娘的伤势，幸好伤势并不严重。
Xu then took the bride and bridesmaid to the hospital in person and escorted them into a treatment room, much to the bemusement of other patients and hospital staff, as per this report by the Yangtze Evening News.
据扬子晚报报道，徐随后亲自将新娘和伴娘带到医院，并护送她们进入治疗室，这让其他患者和医院工作人员感到困惑。
Duly treated, the bridal party were able to go safely on their way to their wedding ceremony. They may have been a little late, but with groom in place, at least officer Xu did not also have to marry the bride.
经过妥善处理，新娘一行人得以安全前往婚礼现场。虽然来晚了一些，但新郎就位了，至少徐警官不用再娶新娘了。
Of course, this is far from the first time that local law enforcement has responded to the downright bizarre. Also on the roads, in October 2021, Nanjing’s finest were in the odd position of having to pull over a 10-year-old boy for driving a toy car down a public road.
当然，这并不是当地执法部门第一次对这种彻头彻尾的怪异事件做出反应。同样在道路上，2021 年 10 月，南京最优秀的选手也遇到了奇怪的情况，一名 10 岁男孩因在公路上驾驶玩具车而不得不将其拦下。
Then there was the burglar who, in November, 2020, walked into a police station in Nanjing to complain that he was slapped about by the very person from whom he was looking to steal.
还有一名窃贼，于 2020 年 11 月走进南京派出所，抱怨说自己被他想要偷窃的人扇了耳光。
But still topping our list of police officers who go beyond the call of duty is the mother who, also in November 2020, called police to say her son was not doing his homework. During their increasingly heated discussion, the two had come close to blows. The mother felt she had little choice but to to ask law enforcement for assistance.
但在我们超出职责范围的警察名单中，位居榜首的是一位母亲，她也在 2020 年 11 月打电话给警察，说她的儿子没有做作业。讨论愈演愈烈，两人差点打起来。这位母亲觉得她别无选择，只能向执法部门寻求帮助。
