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china bắt giữ người đàn ông khiến 1.100 con gà sợ mà chết...

There’s an old Chinese saying (câu ngạn ngữ) that goes: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” (sát kê hách hầu = giết gà cho khỉ sợ)

Roughly translated it means the best way to intimidate a big rival (đối thủ) is to destroy (tiêu diệt) a smaller one.

But what happens after that? One man in China appears to have just found out.

In a curious (kỳ lạ) 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 (hận thù).

The pair had reportedly been squabbling (cãi nhau) since the neighbor, Zhong, cut down Gu’s trees without permission () in April 2022.

The court in Hengyang county of central China’s Hunan province heard that Gu had responded by sneaking (lén lút) onto Zhong’s chicken farm during the night on more than one occasion.

It is unclear what Gu’s intentions were but the flashlight (đèn pin) he used caused the flock (đàn, bầy) to panic (hoảng loạn) and as the birds crowded into a corner in fear, hundreds of them died in the ensuing crush (chen lấn).

The first time Gu trespassed (xâm nhập) onto his neighbor’s property, he caused a crush in which 500 chickens died. He was apprehended (bắt) by police and forced to pay Zhong compensation (đền bù) of 3,000 yuan ($436).

But he didn’t stop there and returned to Zhong’s property a second time, this time killing 640 chickens.