Don’t Scare Chinese Chickens! By James Reed
There was, once upon a time in China, a mysterious land, far, far away, in space and time, two neighbours who fell into a rather nasty dispute. One neighbour had trees that the other neighbour cut down and he took the wood. The aggrieved neighbour took revenge by taking his trusty flash light and scared the neighbour’s chickens to death. This led to a large fine, but the chicken-slayer went to the next level and killed hundred of more chickens. We do not know if there was yet another round of this business. Maybe H5N1 bird flu got to the chickens first?
“A man was fined for scaring his neighbor's chickens to death during a neighborhood feud, but it wasn't enough because he returned to the farm to do it again.
The escalating feud from the Hunan Province of China was documented and reported in China Daily, a state-owned media outlet.
The feud reportedly began in April 2020 when a man known only as Gu cut down trees belonging to a man known only as Zhong. The second man's wife then towed away the trees that had been cut down and angered Gu.
Gu retaliated against Zhong by sneaking onto his property at night with a flashlight to scare Zhong's chickens. The chickens trampled each other after being startled by the flashlight and rushing to a corner of their chicken coop.
Gu was fined equivalent of $436 in yuan, the currency of China, for the callous killing of approximately 500 chickens, but that didn't satiate his taste for vengeance against his neighbor.
China Daily says that Gu later returned to the same property with a flashlight at night and caused another 640 chickens to trample and kill each other.
In total, the man was accused of killing more than 1,140 chickens, which are worth about 13,840 yuan, or about $2,015.”
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