China jails man who scared chickens to death

TL;DR

There’s an old Chinese saying that goes: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey. In a curious court case being reported in the country’s state-owned media, a man identified only by his surname Gu was this week sentenced to prison after a court found him guilty of scaring to death 1,100 chickens that belonged to a neighbor with whom he was feuding. Chinese authorities said that the 1,100 dead chickens were estimated to be worth a total of 13,840 yuan ($2,015)

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