Chicken Killing Chinese Boy

For whatever reason, China plus animals equals bizarre animal deaths. This case is no different. A little boy screamed at a bunch of chickens and caused them to kill each other in a chicken stampede. A single Chinese person hadn’t killed this many chickens out of sheer willpower since General Tso.

From Reuters here:

Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China — and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported on Wednesday.

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.

Why do I worry that this is all just one more reason for the Chinese to slaughter their dogs?