A misunderstanding in Lhasa

Lhasa, the afternoon of March 29

The situation in Lhasa is still tense, proves a weblog by a local blogger, translated by ESWN.
The story recalls the situation in the Tibetan capital on March 29, when all most all shops in Lhasa are shuttered, because of what later proves to be an absurd chain of misunderstandings, nicely described by Ji Han.
The start of the events:

At around 2:30pm, the western suburbs municipal administrators went to inspect the street vendors. As soon as the street vendors saw the municipal administrators, they began running. This resulted in a a scene of the municipal administrators chasing after the vendors. The pedestrians saw them running and, without knowing why, they thought that the rioters were back. So the pedestrians began to run as well. So the road was filled with people running. When the shop-owners saw the street was filled with people running, they thought that there was another riot and they immediately shuttered their shops. After shuttering their shops, they phoned their friends and relatives elsewhere and told them that there was another riot and everybody else had better be prepared.

Well, the whole story gives a nice picture of the atmosphere in Lhasa today.