4 year old Chinese kid kills hundreds

[Oradea]

Boy's screaming kills chickens?

Wed Jan 24, 10:13 AM ET

BEIJING, Jan 24 (Reuters Life!) - Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China -- and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported on Wednesday.


The bizarre sequence events began when the boy arrived at a village home in the eastern province of Jiangsu in the summer with his father who was delivering bottles of gas, the Nanjing Morning Post reported.

A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.

"One neighbor told police that he had heard the boy's crying that afternoon and another villager confirmed the boy screaming by the henhouse window," the newspaper said.

A court ruled the boy's screaming was "the only unexpected abnormal sound" and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.

The boy's father was ordered to pay 1,800 yuan ($230) in compensation to the owner of the chickens.



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[baka tono]

Damages ha! Its not bird flu so eat up.

[t3hWIT]

Odd...

[Iraira]

This is just another reason why I don't want to have kids.

[GuyJean]

This is just another reason why I don't want to have kids.

Or 443 pussy-ass chickens..

Wait a minute.. Shouldn't the owner of barking dog, which scrared the kid, which scared the chickens, be responsible?

GJ

[Samurai_Jerk]

That kid sounds like a fucking pussy. His father should be ashamed of him.

[kamome]

[quote="GuyJean"]Or 443 pussy-ass chickens.. ]

Nah, there's no proximate cause. Should the dog owner have had the reasonable belief that his dog would cause the chain of events that led to the death of the chickens? Probably not.

However, the baby's crying was the direct cause of the chicken tramplings. Since it was provable that the child caused the chicked deaths, the father is on the hook to pay damages. Of course, the fact that anyone should be paying compensation is pretty ludicrous, but that's how the argument probably went.

[GuyJean]

Since it was provable that the child caused the chicked deaths, the father is on the hook to pay damages..

It was proven? How? The chickens told the court they ran from the screaming child? Maybe they were frightened from the barking dog..

GJ

[kamome]

[quote="GuyJean"]It was proven? How? The chickens told the court they ran from the screaming child? Maybe they were frightened from the barking dog.. ]

I'm just assuming it was proved (I suppose it had to be proved in order to award damages). I guess you can prove it through eye witness accounts. Or prove it through a negative - maybe nothing else could have scared the chickens but the baby's crying? Anyway, pretty bizarre news no matter how you look at it.

[GuyJean]

I'm just assuming it was proved (I suppose it had to be proved in order to award damages). I guess you can prove it through eye witness accounts. Or prove it through a negative - maybe nothing else could have scared the chickens but the baby's crying? Anyway, pretty bizarre news no matter how you look at it.

I know.. I was just giving you shit, Mr. DA.

GJ

[kamome]

[quote="GuyJean"]I know.. I was just giving you shit, Mr. DA. ]

I know! Keep dishing it out, I think I can take it.

[sublight]

In other news, the male residents of a nearby Jiangsu University dormitory were arrested for choking 792 chickens over the course of a single weekend.