CNN
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There’s an outdated Chinese language saying that goes: “Kill the rooster to scare the monkey.”
Roughly translated it means the easiest way to intimidate an enormous rival is to destroy a smaller one.
However what occurs after that? One man in China seems to have simply discovered.
In a curious courtroom case being reported within the nation’s state-owned media, a person recognized solely by his surname Gu was this week sentenced to jail after a courtroom discovered him responsible of scaring to dying 1,100 chickens that belonged to a neighbor with whom he was feuding.
The pair had reportedly been squabbling because the neighbor, Zhong, lower down Gu’s bushes with out permission in April 2022.
The courtroom in Hengyang county of central China’s Hunan province heard that Gu had responded by sneaking onto Zhong’s rooster farm in the course of the night time on a couple of event.
It’s unclear what Gu’s intentions have been however the flashlight he used triggered the flock to panic and because the birds crowded right into a nook in worry, tons of of them died within the ensuing crush.
The primary time Gu trespassed onto his neighbor’s property, he triggered a crush through which 500 chickens died. He was apprehended by police and compelled to pay Zhong compensation of three,000 yuan ($436).
However he didn’t cease there and returned to Zhong’s property a second time, this time killing 640 chickens.
On Tuesday, the Hengyang courtroom dominated that Gu had deliberately triggered “property loss” to Zhong.
Chinese language authorities stated that the 1,100 lifeless chickens have been estimated to be value a complete of 13,840 yuan ($2,015).
The courtroom ordered Gu to serve six months in jail with one 12 months of probation – a sentence it stated took into consideration the regret Gu had proven for his crime.
