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July 21st, 2006

Dog-cooking, tree-stealing, school-burning guy may lose job

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

So this headmaster, like some kind of Satanic Mr. Magoo, sells off the trees around his school, and then to keep his teachers from squealing he promises them a meal, and while he’s cooking dog meat for them he sets fire to the school, destroying televisions, computers and textbooks and leaving nearly 100 children unable to study.

But here’s the good part.  Local school officials have recommended that he be fired.  Recommended? Cripes, what do you have to do to get canned for sure there? Here’s the story:

2 comments so far

What a nutbar. Sounds like it might have been the dog’s fur that burst into flames. The story reminds me of a fiend who lived at the top of the best tobogganing hill in my neighborhood. I guess he didn’t like the delightful sound of children at play so one day he got an axe and chopped up the ice at the top of the hill and pelted us with it. Then he put up a fence halfway down the slope so we wouldn’t return.

- Posted by Janet

The part about the trees would itself not be at all newsworthy in today’s China, but I guess when you add in the rest ….

- Posted by China Law Blog

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