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Greenbacks used to light kitchen stove
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-03-09 08:55
Mistaking US bank notes for valueless paper money burned as offerings for
dead people, an ignorant woman in Jixian County of Tianjin Municipality used
some of them to light a stove, Beijing Star Daily reports.
She got the notes worth more than US$14,000 from her husband's younger
brother Chen Li, who stole the money from a local attire company.
Chen was caught several days ago by local police, who found the bank notes in
the woman's kitchen - she found the "ghost money" didn't easily light up so she
left them there.
Woman wants money for losing sex rights
A woman in Baoji, Shaanxi Province, is demanding compensation from a telecom
company for losing her right to have sex with her husband who became impotent in
a work-related injury, reports Chinese Business View.
The husband, Huang, fell off from a telegraph pole when he was working for
the company in North China's Shanxi Province in December 2000.
The court ordered the company to pay 26,000 yuan (US$3,100) but it only
released 10,000 yuan (US$1,200).
Now, the woman put forward a claim for another 100,000 yuan (US$12,000).
Piqued man fakes own kidnap
A man in Guangzhou, who sparked a massive
police manhunt to track down a "kidnap victim" was arrested on Monday, reports
Information Times.
Huang dropped a cigarette box from a building with a
message claiming he had been kidnapped by gunmen; and it was taken to police,
which mobilized 60 men.
However, he remained silent and calm when police
broke into the apartment - Huang was punished by the police a few days earlier
for a minor offence; and this was his way of getting back.
Leaking pipe
mistaken for spring for 27 years
A primary school in Taipei mistook water
from a leaking pipe for a spring for 27 years and even received NT$8 million
(US$240,000) in "government" funds for building a swamp around it for ecosystem
education, reports China News Service.
Water, for some unknown reason,
continued to be pumped into the disused pipe, which leaked 5 tons of water every
day and cost the utility company about NT$300,000 (US$9,000).
Calling it a
"beautiful mistake," Taipei mayor Ma Yingjeou decided last week to leave the
leaking pipe as it is, and the water supply department agreed.
Men wear funeral costumes to collect
debts
Three young men were seen
collecting debts from a restaurant owner by wearing traditional Chinese funeral
costumes and holding the internal organs of fowls at a restaurant in Taiwan
recently, reports China News Service.
Representing an asset management
company, the men cried as loudly as at funerals, which drove away some
customers.
Police are investigating the case, which is seen as a new way of
collecting debts.
Angry boyfriend beaten up by passer-by
A man in
Haikou, Hainan Province, was beaten up by a passer-by last week after his
girlfriend, who was trying to make up with him after a quarrel, called him a
robber, reports Business and Tourism News.
Ye broke free from his girlfriend
Chen after a quarrel when she tried to pull him back; she then shouted "robber"
and a passer-by Li rushed in and beat him up.
The situation became
even more confusing when Chen tried to stop Li; it was resolved when a policeman
came by.
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