The Card Game Blew Up

"Beijing - Four people died in northeast China after a dispute over a game of cards ended in bloodshed when one of the players returned with a hand grenade which later exploded, state media said Saturday.

The four were playing cards on Wednesday in Meihekou city in Jilin province when a quarrel broke out, said the Beijing Times. One of the group later returned with a hand grenade and it went off during a scuffle.

Three people died on the spot while the fourth died in hospital the next day, it said. Two passers-by were also slightly injured by the blast."
Who needs a gun when you have a couple of grenades lying around the house.

3 comments:

AbbaGav said...

Is it safe to guess the Palestinians don't play cards much? In following the various work accidents, I don't notice the casualties coming in sets of four.

Jack Steiner said...

Apparently not.

Regina said...

The Chinese are famous for their hacking deaths as well. Practically every day we were in HK, I read in the newspaper of some guy hacking up his wife or some weirdo guy hacking up a bunch of people... crazy...

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