If this happened on the street, people would be charged with assualt. But in Taiwan's parliament, it's all ok...

Rival lawmakers exchanged punches, climbed on each other's shoulders and jostled violently for position around the speaker's dais Tuesday, as Taiwan's legislature dissolved into chaos over an electoral reform bill...

One of the main protagonists was Yen Ching-piao, a KMT-aligned independent lawmaker who has been convicted of corruption, attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms and attempting to pervert the course of justice, but is free pending an appeal.

Yen, a short, squat man with owlish eyes and the piercing look of a mafia godfather used his large physical presence to try to create a corridor to Wang, but to no avail.

During the melee a small group of police stood by without intervening.