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Raise the Red Panties to ward off evil
One family was found hanging six mirrors on a piece of red cloth at a window; and another hanging two mirrors and red panties. Both were targeting the family in the opposite building, which started the whole drama by hanging a mirror on top of the balcony. None of them is willing to remove the items unless the others act first. Traditional Chinese belief dictates hanging mirrors in certain ways could bring bad luck to other people. Couple blackmail officials in five provinces A couple suspected who blackmailed 20 government officials in Sanshui, Guangdong Province since last month were caught in Fushun, Liaoning Province, reports Information Times. Police found Lan and Fu had sent 1,110 blackmail notes to government officials in five provinces including Guangdong, threatening to publicize their extramarital affairs or corruption unless they send money to certain bank accounts. Lan and Fu said they got the idea from a news report on a similar case last year. Compensation for forced sex in marriage denied A woman who asked for a huge sum in compensation for forced sex from her husband who wanted to divorce her had her plea turned down by a court on Monday, reports Chongqing Commercial News. Liu's husband sought a divorce at the beginning of the year and she said she would agree only on condition that he paid her 200,000 yuan (US$24,200). Liu said her husband always forced her to have sex, which damaged both her mental and physical health; and, as evidence, she said she had lost about 10 kilograms in the past decade. Liu also said her husband was divorcing her because of an affair but the
court granted the divorce without any compensation. Accidents can happen anywhere as a 17-year-old girl can testify - she was bathing in her apartment on Sunday and was slightly injured when a bus crashed into her house, reports Chongqing Commercial News. Deng Ling, a native of Chongqing Municipality, had just finished bathing and was about to put on her clothes when the out-of-control vehicle sped 200 metres down a slope and came to a stop after crashing into her house. The girl was rushed to hospital; and no-one in the bus was seriously injured. Bicycle thieves' contest takes them to jail Two thieves were caught by police as they raced to see who could steal more bicycles in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, reports Modern Express. Last Wednesday, Gu stole a green bicycle and made a show of it before Geng; and to find out who was a better thief, they decided to compete with each other that evening. However, they were arrested because of their suspicious behaviour.
Two young men in Beijing who pretended to be members of a suicide squad from a Middle East country tried to extort money from residents in Chaoyang District, Beijing News reports. Xu Zhong and Song Guo from Central China's Henan Province, not content with their 500-yuan (US$60) salary in a restaurant, sent letters to several households in the neighbourhood demanding that they remit 1,000 yuan (US$120) each to a certain account within 12 hours or risk their lives. They were caught on Sunday when checking their account at a nearby ATM after the residents reported the matter to police. |
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Three families in the suburbs of Guangzhou, Guangdong
Province, are engaged in a race to outdo each other with Taoist charms -
including mirrors and panties - to "deflect evil emanating from others' homes,"
reports Information Times.
