Taken from msnbc.com:
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BEIJING - Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in eastern China — and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a 4-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported Wednesday.
The bizarre sequence events began when the boy arrived at a village home in the eastern province of Jiangsu in the summer with his father who was delivering bottles of gas, the Nanjing Morning Post reported.
A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.
“One neighbor told police that he had heard the boy’s crying that afternoon and another villager confirmed the boy screaming by the henhouse window,” the newspaper said.
A court ruled the boy’s screaming was “the only unexpected abnormal sound” and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.
The boy’s father was ordered to pay $230 in compensation to the owner of the chickens.
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I keep reading this article over and over, and the only thing I can picture is my son. Only, the scenario would be completely different. He would not be crying, but rather laughing at the chickens as they ran around in a frenzy from his yelling. Just picturing this, I myself cannot stop laughing!
This is probably one of the most difficult to believe stories I’ve come across lately. Witches being killed for using their powers to murder someone? That’s believable… but for hundreds of chickens to die as a result of one boy screaming? There has to be more to this story. What’s more, the father only had to pay $230 adjusted US dollars in compensation for the deaths of hundreds of chickens… that’s less than or equal to a buck-a-chicken.
Want to know what I think? The chickens were killed by witches and the boy was just a distraction. Wrap your mind around that.
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January 25th, 2007 
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