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There’s an old Chinese saying that goes: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.”
Roughly translated it means the best way to intimidate a big rival is to destroy a smaller one.
But what happens after that? One man in China appears to have just found out.
In a curious 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.
The pair had reportedly been squabbling since the neighbor, Zhong, cut down Gu’s trees without permission in April 2022.
