A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings.
Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in the southern city of Zhuhai said in handing down the sentence on Friday. The victims were exercising at a sports centre at the time of the attack. Fan pleaded guilty to endangering public safety by dangerous means, a court statement said.
Dude 35 people? That’s so sad. Makes me think the spouse made the right choice to GTFO.
China has a habit of limiting body counts to maximum 35. There were likely many more.
Really? O_o
Yes. If I had access to a dataset, I’m sure I could show a peak at 35 reports. But I don’t, and I’m not sure one exists, given China’s tight control over anything that might make them look bad.
Source?
What in the weird ass sinophobic nonsense…
Zixing storms: 30 dead, 35 missing.
Yuxian mine explosion: 35 dead.
I don’t know what the deal is, maybe it has to be reported to the government differently if there are more than 35 casualties, but it’s suspicious how many times an incident has exactly 35 casualties.
This is not the evidence you think it is. Plus there might be a missing cultural context here. Arabs for example use multiples of seven to denote uncountable. Seventy in the Quran often just means “numerous”. Now I don’t understand Chinese language or culture and I bet neither do you. But I know that I don’t know enough about them, you meanwhile pass judgement willy nilly. Seeing Westerners talk about my culture cluelessly with confidence makes me think something similar is happening here. Even without any cultural context, 35 is a common number when you have over a billion people. If only China had mass shootings we could probably test this theory and see if they’d report a higher number, but I’d rather people don’t die.
This is next level schizoposting.
They provided a bunch of links to examples. You provided name calling.
I feel like I stepped in the crazy pile. This works with nearly any real number, with any country above 10 million people.
Did neither of you watch the movie 23?
I saw Pi in the theater.
This works with nearly any real number,
- You mean natural numbers, not real numbers
- You can disprove it by showing any link with casualties greater than 35. Based on your logic, should be very easy.
I think we’ve found a paid shill.
They can’t give up no matter what and will throw anything at the wall to make it seem like they came out on top.
Looks like he’s desperate because he’s probably compensated based on how well he can convince people on china’s greatness.
Isn’t that right?
Are you talking about yourself?
Oopsie, the pen broke, guess we’ll have to stop counting. 🤷♂️
I mean, if we are going to go by body count because of lunatics taking out their hate on strangers, she made a worse choice coming here, no?
Dude allegedly did this because of… marriage issues?
Bro go find some government official and do something (🗡) about them, not random people in the street.
In my country couple of weeks ago a guy ordered a hit on his ex girlfriend’s store. The store blew up and collapsed including the several apartments above it. Six unrelated people died. A kid survived, he lost his parents and sister.
Some men need to stay single forever and never get into a relationship.
But not being in a relationship is what causes them to do these things…
Cars have been around for almost a century. Has this “goimg postal in a car” thing started happening only recently (and increasingly) or it was just outside of the news cycle?
It’s been done the same rate the past 80 or hundred years, but incidents have only attracted attention, so widely, due to internet.
Source: am old, used to read physical newspapers
oh absolutely not. The information has just not been reported on… for some reason.
The kindergarten stabbings that are really common in China are hardly talked about in the west and have been happening for iirc 5 years.
Here’s a video by someone who used to live in China talking about it https://youtu.be/bEjsGj-NTFwIt’s new, along with the uptick of other mass violence events. It’s just that in the US it’s guns, in other places, it’s cars or bladed weapons.
