Telegraph poles take over sidewalk, restaurant owner in soup over salt, man held for celebrating probe

Telegraph poles take over sidewalk

About 70 telegraph poles have been installed on a sidewalk that is just 300-meter-long in Beihai city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Friday, according to dfic.cn.

As there are too many poles, pedestrians are unable to walk on the sidewalk and are instead forced to risk injury and even death by walking on the road.

According to the report, only a few of these poles are for electricity, while the use of the rest is not clear yet.

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Owner of a diner in Xinyi city, Jiangsu province, surnamed Chen, bought 3 kg salt from Lianyungang city, Shandong province. The two cities are neighbors separated by provincial boundaries.

But he got into trouble 10 days later. Law enforcement officer showed up at his door claiming he had broken the law by purchasing the salt from another province. To rub salt in his wounds, the location of his diner is closer to Lianyungang, a place from where he cannot buy salt.

Chen has been fined 5,050 yuan ($826).

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Guangdong officials sued for stealing corpses

One man from Guangxi province and two from Guangdong have been sued for allegedly stealing corpses. The two suspects from Guangdong are former government officials, Yulin Daily reported.

The two officials from Guangdong surnamed Dong and He were both county-level officials in charge of reforming the funeral system. In order to fulfill their mandatory quota for cremation, Dong and Guo bought corpses from Zhong, a Guangxi native, who stole corpses from Beiliu, Guangxi province. Dong said he bought 10 corpses from Zhong for 3,000 yuan ($491) per body and cremated them afterwards.

China has been encouraging cremation since the 1950s. Because of faith and Chinese traditional views, many still prefer ground burial rather than cremation.

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Man held for celebrating probe of official

A man surnamed Zhao has been detained for 15 days after he celebrated the investigation of a senior municipal official in front of the Party committee building in Datong, Shanxi province.

According to a report by Beijing News, Zhao set off firecrackers, waved the national flag and sang the national anthem in front of the building, after hearing the news of the investigation into Feng Lixiang, the former municipal Party secretary of Datong, on Oct 15, 2014.

Zhao was trying to "stir up public emotions" and had "seriously disturbed the social order", according to a document reportedly from Datong police provided by a Weibo user.

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Karma strikes fatal blow

Sometimes karma is fast. Three thieves who stole two vintage plagues and an incense burner from a temple in Taishun county in Zhejiang province were injured in a car accident on their way back on Oct 20, according to Today Morning Express on Sunday.

They collided with a van on their way to a service area. When they tried to avoid the accident, the incense burner flew forward and hit one thief so hard that he died. Another one was seriously injured and the third is in custody.

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