Mentally ill man mistakes dad for burglar, axes him

A mentally challenged man living with his parents in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, mistook his own father for a burglar and chopped him with an axe before throwing his body out of the window last week.

During interrogation, the man said he woke up on Thursday night and saw "the burglar" rummaging through the house, when he picked up an axe, went behind the intruder and chopped him down.

Police saide the accused still does not know that he killed his father.

Dog 'commits suicide' after pup's death

A female dog possibly jumped off a building in Xiyi, Guangdong province and committed suicide just days after its newborn pup dies on Monday.

Local residents said the dog, which gave birth earlier this month, stopped eating after its pup died a few days ago.

The dog reportedly climbed up the roof of a three-story building and leapt to its death in the dead of the night.

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China's tallest man traveling in search of wife

Zhao Liang, 27, a resident of Henan proivince, believed to be the tallest man in China, reached Jinan, Shandong province, earlier this week in search of a bride.

The 2.5-m0tall former basketball player received more than 2,000 responses from all over the country to his advertisement for a wife, which he had published in a newspaper a couple of months ago.

Zhao is visiting several cities to meet the women who responded to his ad.

Qilu Evening News

Teenage lovers on heat attack annoyed taxi driver

Two teenage lovers attacked a taxi driver who told them to stop fondling each other in the backseat of his cab in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, last Tuesday.

According to the driver, the two youngsters wouldn't stop "touching and caressing" each other all the way to a hotel near the city railway station.

The driver asked them to stop and just as soon as he dropped them off at their desired hotel, the couple pounced on him and started hitting him.

Police arrived on the scene and asked the youngsters to apologize to the driver and pay for his medical treatment.

Hebei Youth News

Residents kill rare deer with kindness

A roe deer, one of a species under State protection, died from stress after being caught by residents with good intentions in Dandong, Liaoning province.

Residents caught the beast in a courtyard on Sunday but didn not know what it was and took it to experts at a local wildlife protection bureau.

The experts took the deer for further care but found it had died from stress.

"It's really a pity that the roe deer died...it misunderstood our intentions," they said.

Liaoshen Evening News

Man detained for kissing neighbor forcibly

Police in Jinan, Shandong province, detained a man for kissing a woman by force last week.

Xu, the accused, broke in to his neighbor's apartment and kissed her while she was brushing her teeth last Thursday.

He was arrested after the woman phoned the police.

Jinan Times

Drunken man slips into toilet hole, keeps sleeping

A drunken man fell into a village-type dry toilet last week and slept inside until he was rescued the next morning.

Fortunately, another man spotted him and phoned the firefighters, who carried the drunkard out of the toilet pit and rushed him to a hospital in Hohhot, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

To thier surprise, he told them that he could not remember what happened to him after regaining conciousness early the next day at the hospital. The doctors found no injury on him.

Lesbian held for kidnap of ex-lover's new man

A lesbian who abducted her ex-lover's boyfriend after the woman left her for the man was detained in Beihai of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Tuesday.

After Li, 27, kidnapped A Peng, 24, she asked her ex-lover Xiao Li to pay her ransom money valued at 800,000 yuan ($117,165).

Li waas detained after police launched an investigation into the case.

Xiao was Li's lesbian girlfriend but she left Li and began to date A Peng early this year.

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