AN attempt to use emergency services as a personal disciplinary tool backfired when police sentenced a man to seven days in administrative detention for calling them 47 times in three hours, China Press reported.
Frustrated by his son’s refusal to stop playing video games and eat dinner, the heavily intoxicated man from Ningbo, China, escalated the domestic spat into a police matter.
He dialed the emergency hotline multiple times, demanding that officers come to his home to educate and punish his son.
Even after police and community workers arrived to mediate, the man refused to back down and repeatedly called the hotline while officers were still standing in his living room.
His outburst led to his arrest for disturbing public order.
> A heartbreaking video of a young girl sleeping beside her grandparents’ grave in Guizhou province has gone viral, touching millions across China.
China Press also reported that the girl reportedly refused to leave the cemetery, insisting on resting as close to her grandparents as possible.
According to the girl’s father, the grandmother passed away five months ago, and the grandfather died from a heart condition three weeks ago.
She was raised primarily by her maternal grandparents.
The footage sparked a massive wave of sympathy on social media, with many users moved by the child’s innocence.
> What started as a festive drive through Yunnan’s Water Splashing Festival spiralled into a nightmare when a mob of revellers forcibly sprayed high-pressure water into a car.
Oriental Daily reported that the family of four in the vehicle was drenched after the group yanked open the moving car door and sprayed water at them.
The mob even tried to force open the boot to flood the rear of the vehicle.
The situation turned from a nuisance to a safety hazard when the car’s electronics began to short-circuit.
Smoke started billowing from the dashboard, eventually causing the vehicle to stall and fail entirely.
The car was towed to a local dealership for emergency repairs. The owner is pursuing legal action.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
