A man was fined for scaring his neighbor’s chickens to death during a neighborhood feud, but it wasn’t enough because he returned to the farm to do it again.
The escalating feud from the Hunan Province of China was documented and reported in China Daily, a state-owned media outlet.
The feud reportedly began in April 2020 when a man known only as Gu cut down trees belonging to a man known only as Zhong. The second man’s wife then towed away the trees that had been cut down and angered Gu.
Gu retaliated against Zhong by sneaking onto his property at night with a flashlight to scare Zhong’s chickens. The chickens trampled each other after being startled by the flashlight and rushing to a corner of their chicken coop.
Gu was fined equivalent of $436 in yuan, the currency of China, for the callous killing of approximately 500 chickens, but that didn’t satiate his taste for vengeance against his neighbor.
China Daily says that Gu later returned to the same property with a flashlight at night and caused another 640 chickens to trample and kill each other.
In total, the man was accused of killing more than 1,140 chickens, which are worth about 13,840 yuan, or about $2,015.
A Hengyang County court charged Gu with intentionally causing the property loss of his neighbor and sentenced him on Tuesday to six months in prison and one year of probation.
The court said that it ordered a lesser sentence because Gu had shown remorse about killing so many of his neighbor’s chickens with a flashlight.
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