Around the nation: Son runs up hug tab at hotel spa to take revenge on Dad
Also: Teenage son, abducted as toddler, rejects real parents after reunion; Lottery winner fails suicide bid after squandering his fortune
PUBLISHED : Friday, 13 February, 2015, 9:18pm
UPDATED : Friday, 13 February, 2015, 9:18pm
Staff at a Kunming hotel spa show the tab for a 14-year-old boy's four day spending binge to get even with his "negligent" dad. Photo: SCMP Pictures
YUNNAN
It's on Dad
A 14-year-old boy seeking revenge on his father ran up a 14,000-yuan (HK$17,700) bill at a hotel spa in Kunming over four days, the Spring City Evening News reports. Hotel records showed more than 130 orders from the boy including 37 massages, 23 packets of cigarettes and 31 bottles of alcohol. The boy phoned his divorced parents when he was unable to pay his bill. He "felt neglected" by his parents who did not even try to stop him smoking. Asked why they had let an underage boy spend so much, staff said he looked mature for his age.
A neighbourly thank you
An entrepreneur from Luquan county is celebrating his success this Lunar New Year by building a 200-square-metre villa for each of the 40 households in his home village, Chinanews.com reports. Guang Xiangzu, 66, spent 1.2 million yuan to build the homes in the remote mountain village. He spent another million yuan on the local primary school.
GUANGDONG
Long wait for justice
A local court in Dongguan has compensated a man for being wrongfully detained for 662 days, the Southern Metropolis News reports. The man was detained in February, 2012 and jailed for five years for fraud that August. The charges were dropped on appeal in December, 2013. His first demand for compensation was rejected, but an intermediate court in Dongguan finally overruled that decision.
Son rejects parents
A teenager wants to cut ties with his biological parents 15 years after he was adopted by a wealthy family in Guangzhou, the Southern Metropolis News reports. The youth, 17, was abducted by traffickers at age two and sold to his adopted family for 13,000 yuan. His biological parents recently found him with police help, but the son said he did not want to keep meeting them and wanted to move on with his life.
HENAN
Bee all and end all
Firefighters in the province received nearly 60,000 calls for help last year, nearly half of them requests to remove beehives, the Dahe Daily reports. A fire department director said people could remove small hives with pesticides, and should not tie up valuable manpower that was needed for more urgent cases.
Zhengzhou official jailed
A former deputy director of the Zhengzhou pubic security bureau has been jailed for six years for taking 710,000 yuan in bribes, the Dahe Daily reports. The official accepted the money between 2012 and last year in return for promotions and job opportunities for those who bribed him. The court handed him a lenient sentence after he returned the money.
HUBEI
Bus trip nightmare
A migrant worker from Henan was stranded at a roadside service area in Wuhan as he travelled home by bus for the Lunar New Year, the Changjiang Daily reports. The bus left Fujian on Saturday and made a comfort stop at dawn. While the man was in the restroom, the bus left with his luggage. Police contacted the driver and took the man to Wuhan train station. He arrived home on Sunday, with his luggage.
Woman driver sought
Wuhan police are looking for a woman after a hit-and-run incident left a sanitation worker critically injured on Tuesday, the Wuhan Evening News reports. Surveillance video showed the woman driver left her car to check on the victim at about 6.30am. As passers-by gathered and called police, she returned to the car and fled. Police said the driver stopped later to wipe blood stains from the front of the vehicle.
HUNAN
Fortune ends in misery
A Changsha man attempted to kill himself on a railway track after he wasted 5 million yuan he won in a lottery two years ago, Rednet.cn reports. The 41-year-old was rescued unhurt by railway staff and police on Wednesday. Neighbours said he had splurged the money on two properties, two cars and drugs. His wife had walked out after a business venture failed, leaving a large debt. He had gone to his brother's home for Lunar New Year, the report said.
Swindler arrested
A fraudster in Changsha swindled more than 500,000 yuan from five single women over two years, the Xiaoxiang Morning News reports. The man, 50, met the women online and asked them out for dates, telling him he owned a nationwide medicinal wholesale business. Later he told his victims he would like to buy a flat and marry them, but his company's funds were tied up. After getting their money, he disappeared. He is under arrest.
JIANGSU
Stepmother killer to die
A man in Nanjing was sentenced to death on Thursday for the fatal stabbing of his stepmother, the Modern Express reports. The man, in his 30s, came to the city in search of work last year, but he spent all his money on lottery tickets. He had asked his father, who lived with the stepmother, for 10,000 yuan, which he squandered. Last June, he quarrelled with the woman when he asked his father for another 50,000 yuan at a metro station. He stabbed her in the chest, killing her.
Failed carjacking
A man, 26, in Nanjing has been arrested for stealing an Audi convertible during a test drive, the Modern Express reports. The man took the car out accompanied by the dealer's wife. After a while he pulled over and threatened her with a knife. He took 4,000 yuan from her purse and ordered her out of the car. The wife called police, who set up a roadblock. Other drivers blocked him with their own cars.
SHANGHAI
Biodiesel from gutter oil
The city plans to recycle gutter oil into biodiesel for its buses, the China News Service reports. The move follows a local environmental protection bureau report that found motor vehicles and ships were the main source of the city's air pollution. The city started a pilot scheme in 2013 to run buses on converted waste kitchen oil.
Classroom thief
A young man disguised as a university student stole seven mobile phones, two iPads and a laptop from several English training institutes over five days, Thepaper.cn reports. The man sat at computer desks and stole the electronics from students in adjacent seats when they left their desks, the report says.
ZHEJIANG
Woman robbed, raped
A labour contractor robbed and raped a sex worker in Hangzhou , before helping her get home for the Lunar New Year, Cnnb.com.cn reports. The man threatened the woman with a knife and took 3,000 yuan and two phones from her on Sunday. He also forced her to withdraw 10,000 yuan from her bank account, then brought her to a hotel and raped her. The next morning, he drove her to the airport for her trip home and returned 1,000 yuan for travelling expenses. He was arrested on Tuesday.
Village chief gunned down
A village chief was shot dead in Pingyang county, Wenzhou , on Thursday night, 66wz.com reports. The victim, 46, was shot in the back of the head while walking along a neighbourhood street. A witness saw him fall to the ground but did not clearly see the gunman's face. Relatives think the crime was related to a construction project and disputes with families facing eviction, the report said.
