Housewife in central China seasons family meal with dead mouse
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 09 April, 2015, 1:57pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 09 April, 2015, 5:50pm
The housewife suspected nothing was wrong until she found a suspicious lump in the bottom of the bag. Photo: SCMP Pictures
XIAN - A woman in Lantian county found a dead mouse at the bottom of a bag of seasoning powder that she had just used up, the Xian Evening News reports.
The woman was adding the seasoning to the lunchtime meal she was preparing for her family on Tuesday, but could not get the last bit of powder out. She cut opened the bag and found a dead mouse lying at the bottom, covered in the powder.
She had bought the product from a supermarket in February. It had not past its expiration date.
She filed a complaint to the local food and drug administration department. The authorities found that the business licence of the non-staple food wholesale centre, which imported the seasoning powder, had expired two years ago. The case was still under investigation.
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Chinese doctors told to improve handwriting or lose bonus
ZHEJIANG - Hospitals in Ningbo are requiring their doctors to write neatly in patients’ medical record books to make them more legible, the Qianjiang Evening News reports.
Seven doctors at a local hospital had their bonuses deducted due to their illegible handwriting last week.
The head of the hospital’s outpatient department said the hospital set up a reward and penalty system for the medical record books in September.
He said the hospital decided to change the messy handwriting of doctors because sometimes even their colleagues could not understand what was written in the records when patients came in consultations and follow-up examinations.
Illegible records also could not serve as evidence in medical conflicts between patients and doctors.
But doctors protested that they were too busy to write neatly.
“In half a day, I have to see at least 50 patients, and sometimes the number of patients would reach 100. How many minutes can I spend on a single patient? To improve efficiency, I naturally have to write faster,” a lung specialist said.
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Young boy burns 5,000 real yuan at ancestors’ tomb
HUBEI - A 4-year-old boy in Wuhan burned 5,000 yuan in real cash while visiting the grave sites of his ancestors with his great-grandfather on Friday, the Wuhan Evening News reports. The boy arrived at his great-grandparents’ home on Friday. The delighted 82-year-old great-grandfather bought the boy a new school bag and put 5,000 yuan in it as a pre-birthday gift.
That evening, the old man took the boy to a nearby shop to buy ghost money, before heading to their ancestors’ tombs to pay respects.
He set up five small fires next to the graves and started burning the ghost money. At the request of the boy, the grandfather handed some ghost money to him and let him take care of one fire.
The grandparents did not realise that all the real money was gone until the next morning when the grandmother opened the boy’s bag to check.
When grandmother asked where the money was, to their surprise, the boy answered: “Didn’t great-grandpa let me burn it to offer to his father?”
The old man admitted that the ghost money he bought looked a lot like the real thing. He recalled that the boy had asked him at the shop whether that kind of money can be burned, and he said it could.
The grandmother gave the boy another 5,000 yuan to make up for the gift, the report said.
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Shenzhen taxi driver hands in 300 gold necklaces left under seat
The driver said a young man left the gold in his taxi. Photo: He Huifeng
GUANGDONG - A taxi driver in Shenzhen found more than 300 gold necklaces left by a passenger on Wednesday and handed them to the taxi company, the Southern Metropolis News reports. The necklaces weighed more than 1kg and were worth at least 250,000 yuan (HK$316,000), the report said. They were wrapped in a plastic bag and left under the front-passenger seat by a young man. Police were looking for the owner.
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Lottery criminal steals thousands of tickets but is still out of pocket
SHAANXI - A man who stole 40,000 yuan worth of scratch tickets in Yulin this week had only won 100 yuan by the time he was arrested, the Huashang Daily reports. The man spent 1,000 yuan on the tickets on Sunday without winning a penny. In the early hours of Monday he broke into a lottery shop and stole thousands more. He also spent another 1,000 yuan to hire two accomplices to help him scratch the cards, but they only found one ticket worth 80 yuan and another worth 20 yuan. The culprit was arrested as he tried to redeem his pitiful earnings. He still had more than 3,000 unscratched tickets with him at the time.
