There are school rivalries and then there are Chinese school rivalries. In Beijing, two girls are dead after the head of a rival school allegedly poisoned yogurt and put the food outside of the kindergarten where children play. The two schools have been competing for students. (The picture is a common yogurt drink in China and not necessarily the brand used in this crime).
The head of the school has reportedly confessed that she injected rat poison in the yogurt and had someone put the yogurt with some books outside of the rival kindergarten in Pingshan county in Hebei province. The children found the material and took them home. Two them suffered convulsions after drinking the yogurt and died later.
Source: National Post
Chinese educational systems have always been known for sharp-edged competitiveness … this sure gives it a totally new dimension.
J Brian:
i guess that principal wasnt their pal.
Looks like they need Yogurt control laws,
When I had mice I didn’t kill them, the kitties kept them in check was one reason; that I wouldn’t feed rat/mouse poison to even a rodent was the other. That is a horrible death, no being should have that visited upon them.
Michael Val: “It’s crimes like this that make me vascilate on my opposition to the death penalty.” ** I know exactly what you mean.
An unprincipled principal?
Death from rat poisoning is a particularly gruesome and painful way to die. Absolutely horrible that someone would intentionally kill kindergartners like this just for such a stupid reason. It’s crimes like this that make me vascilate on my opposition to the death penalty.
Frankly:
Yes it should. I actually meant it both ways.
Gary, that sentence should be read both ways
This ‘administrator’ needs to die, badly.
This ‘administrator’ needs to die badly.
I wonder if the defense will claim she was inoculating it to kill the rats unscrupulously put into the yoghurt.
That calloused humor aside, This is a deplorable crime and a death from rat poison can be particularily agonizing. Given China’s legal system a death penalty might be sought.
Do they have to copy everything Americans do? Sheesh:
(Wikipedia). They need to work on their originality.
Betty,
Comparison of evils…. Is like claiming you the winner in Russian roulette…..
This honestly makes me cry.
Innocent children, just trying to live.
This ‘administrator’ needs to die, badly.
Aaaaaaaah, Population control in China, ain’t it great? In a population of 1.3 Billion…. whose going to miss a few kids??????????????
Don’t get that principal mad! Wow.
And we think some of our school administrators are deranged!