Posts Tagged ‘china’

Don’t you hate that when you have five mistresses but you can only afford one.  Well I can’t say it has ever happened to me but one man in China did wake up one morning with this very problem and he thought to himself that the best way to solve the problem would be to hold a “Best Mistress Competition”.

The whole competition was going so well too – one mistress was out of the running leaving four to fight between themselves for the glorious position of being the winning mistress of the Chinese business man, who is being known as Fan.

However, Fan neglected to realise that the mistresses that didn’t make the cut might be a little up set and as the first mistress failed to progress to the next stage of the competition because of her looks she decided to drive the husband and the other four wives off a cliff according to Chinese media.

The police had originally thought that the whole situation had been an accident and the car hadn’t meant to drive off the cliff.  However they understood what happened after they found out about the contest in a letter that the aggrieved mistress had written before her drive.

The mistresses apparently knew each other but when the businessman announced that he could only afford to keep one of them none of them wanted to leave – they were living somewhat of a nice life in rent-free flat and a 5,000 Yuan monthly allowance.

The man therefore decided that the best way to judge which one would be best to keep would be through a competition and started the competition in May without any of the mistresses knowing what was going on.

Fan managed to get hold of a local modelling agency instructor to judge the mistresses and the mistresses were judged on their looks, their singing voices and how much alcohol they could handle.  Is that what we’re supposed to look for in women?

The first mistress knocked out was Yu who was a waitress in a restaurant in Qingdao when she met Fan.  She was knocked out in round one for falling short in the “looks” department.

Apparently this insult was enough to tip her over the edge as she convinced Fan and the four other wives to take a driving sightseeing trip with her before she returned home.

She then took the opportunity to put the brakes on Fan’s competition by driving the man and the four other contestants off a cliff – unfortunately for Yu she was the only one to suffer from fatal injuries and the other passengers were only injured.

According to reports, after the incident, Fan sold off his business and paid Yu’s family 580,000 Yuan as compensation for her death.  Once his actual wife had found out about the mistresses and the competition she left him and quickly behind her followed the four other mistresses.

He’s got a lighter.  Everyone down on the ground…

Smoking was never so dangerous – six police patrol cars were rushed to a scene where a man was carrying a hunting rifle in a Chinese city and the whole situation could have gotten very messy…if the hunting rifle wasn’t infact an oversized lighter.

Police in the Chinese city of Nanjing were suddenly inundated with emergency telephone calls claiming that there was a man on the loose brandishing a hunting rifle.

The police obviously responded to the emergency calls and were expecting a possible dangerous situation but instead they arrived at the scene to discover the man, clearly unaware that people around him were scared out of their skins, was simply carrying a gigantic lighter on his back.

“We sent out six patrol cars immediately, trying to stop the man before anything bad happened.

“On spotting the man, officers forced him to stop. The man was obviously very scared and said the gun was only a toy lighter, which he just won as an award in a restaurant,” commented a police spokesman.

Well, the flame was pretty hot.

After getting the supposed rifle back to the police station, the police tested the object but once they had pulled the trigger they realised the mistake that had been made as a small innocent flame poked out of the barrel of the gun.

Unfortunately the man who was allegedly stalking the streets with a deadly firearm was given a warning for carrying the lighter, which was confiscated.

The end of novelty lighters?

The news comes as fire officials in Louisville in the United States demanded that novelty lighters were removed from stores as they are apparently responsible for several deaths a year, although not because they are parading as hunting rifles.

The fire officers claimed that the lighters can easily be picked up by children who will play with what they think is a toy and then there is a strong possibility that a fire could start.

“Anytime a child can get to it and they think it’s a toy and they get by themselves in a closet and they’re playing with it and a fire starts, that’s the biggest concern we’ve got,” said Henry Ott of the Louisville Fire Department.

“Kids are playing with lighters, kids are cooking at home, using candles in the room, or they may lay a curling iron down.”

According to an arson investigator in Louisville children are responsible for around half of all fires in the United States.

No real proof…

However, the fires have not been connected with novelty lighters, partly because the United States Fire Administration only started to keep their eyes on the cigarette accessories since January of last year.

Although the move by the Fire Department doesn’t have the backing of some hardcore smokers, the plans do indeed have the unanimous backing of the Louisville Metro Council Public Safety Committee and the full council will be meeting next Thursday to vote on the move.

What do you think?

Is this proposal to ban joke lighters a good decision or is it just another example of how wrapped up in cotton we are as a culture?  Let us know…

Is it a cat?  Is it a dog?  No…it’s a wolf…

Imagine Mr Li’s shock when he discovered that the dog he had been raising from a puppy actually turned out to be a wolf that was scarring the neighbourhood – I’d say he was a bit more than shocked!

Mr Li, based in China, claimed that he found the shivering, lonely puppy in the mountains when he was on an excursion last year.  Li then brought the puppy home and started to raise it as a household pet.

Li gave the puppy all the amenities that come with being a household puppy, such as a den, meals and of course the daily walk – without a clue that the puppy was actually a wolf!

Sneaky little wolf.

The wolf managed to trick the innocent Mr LI, but when it came to the village suspicion was rife.  The neighbourhood started to get apprehensive and wary when they started to hear howling in the middle of the night.

“I never dared to let my child to go out alone at night after we started hearing the wolf,” claimed a resident in Li’s village.  Image Halloween in that village!

Didn’t have a clue.

However, Li was always ignorant to the dangerous animal he was rearing from a puppy and according to him got very connected to the wolf.

“I took it for a walk every day after work, and it grew very close to me,” said Mr Li.

Once the neighbours had had enough of the dangerous animal around the village the police were informed.  Once the police arrived and took a look at the supposed “dog” they immediately became suspicious and got in touch with an animal expert from the local animal centre.

No barking, no dog…

The rest, as they say is history…the specialist came to the village to look at the dog and immediately recognised the “dog” as a wolf.

The expert recognised immediately that the animal was not in fact the household dog that Mr Li had originally assumed.  The wolf’s lack of barking and thick fur coat and tail were apparent dead give-aways.

“It looks very much like a dog to me. I would never have suspected that it was a wolf,” continued Mr Li.

The wolf has now been taken to the Qinling Zoo to be looked after.

Two men have been give the death penalty for their part in the contaminated milk scandal that left 6 babies dead and around 300,000 ill. The former boss of the Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison. In all 21 sentences are being dished out to those involved.

The scandal, which rocked China and shocked the world, involved large quantities of melamine being added to raw milk to make it appear higher in protein. The global outrage has damaged China’s food industry both at home and abroad.

The most senior figure to be given a sentence was Tian Wenhua, who was the company’s chairwoman. When the scandal was revealed in September it emerged that Sanlu had known it was selling toxic milk – allowing 900 tonnes of it to reach shop shelves. The truth was revealed by the company’s New Zealand partner.

Wenhua pleaded guilty to charges of producing and selling fake or sub-standard produce in December. The Intermediate People’s Court in Shijiazhuang gave her a life sentence and orderd her to pay a fine of 20m vuan ($2.9m). They company itself was fined a further $7.3m, even though the firm was declared bankrupt.

Three other Sanlu executives were given between five and 15 years each, while Zhang Yujun and Gen Jinping were given the death penalty.

Yujun was accused of running an illegal workshop in Shandong province in eastern China, producing 600 tonnes of the fake protein powder. He was sentenced along with Zhang Yanzhang who sold on the powder, who was handed a life sentence. Jinping was convicted of producing and selling the toxic food to dairy companies.

The scandal left Chinese parents terrified and caused outrage throughout the country. This was worryingly similar to a milk scandal around 4 years ago that left 13 babies dead. The government has tried to fight allegations that it reacted to slowly to the crisis.

Families of the victims say that the Chinese government’s lack of openness, public accountability and official corruption means that they have little faith that something like this won’t happen again.

In total, 22 companies sold the contaminated milk. The dealers added the chemical to boost the protein count of the milk, but it was often watered down to make more money.

Dairy companies were also at fault for not running safety tests on the milk they bought, and the result was death and illness due to kidney failure.