Were They Hungry Again in an Hour?

Tuckerfan · Aug 6, 2014

Hong Kong man kills and eats his elderly parents.

HONG KONG: An elderly Hong Kong couple were allegedly dismembered by their son and his friend before being salted, cooked and packed into lunchboxes "like barbecued pork", a court has heard.

The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March last year, stuffed into two refrigerators in a bloodstained apartment, days after they were reported missing.

The other remains were found in a rubbish bin, cooked and packed into lunchboxes with rice, in an attempt by the duo to hide the crime after they ran out of space in the refrigerators.

Their 30-year-old son Henry Chau pleaded not guilty to both counts of murder on Wednesday, reports said, as he and alleged accomplice Tse Chun-kei appeared on the second day of the trial before a packed court.

The South China Morning Post reported that Chau pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsiblity on Tuesday, while Tse, 36, denied both counts of murder.

Both men have admitted preventing the couple's lawful burial. Prosecutors allege that Chau and Tse planned the murder for months, buying knives, refrigerators, microwave ovens and a rice cooker.

Chau initially told police that his parents had gone to mainland China, but later admitted to the murder on an Internet messaging group.

In evidence read to the city's High Court Wednesday, he claimed that he planned to mislead the police in order to buy himself some time to say goodbye to friends.

"My murdering partner and I were planning to make it a missing person case and dump the body piece by piece," he said in a group message.

Chau also called himself a "psychopath" in the messages and said: "I cannot empathise with people's pain because of my experience from childhood and adolescence".

The Post reported that Chau claims to have killed his parents with the help of Tse in the middle of an emotional breakdown, but prosecutors allege that the murder was carefully planned.
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Liet · Aug 6, 2014

Sadly, I don't see any actual claims or charges of cannibalism in that article. If you're going to package people as lunch, at least have the decency to use them as food!

Tamar Garish · Aug 6, 2014

Such a misleading title!

Still...a terrible thing to do. Clearly, well planned or not, he's gotta be mentally ill to do such a thing at all.

ed629 · Aug 6, 2014

That sounds like the North Korean dad that had a surprise dinner for his wife, apparently the dinner did not sit well with her.

“In my village in May a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad.” The informant told how the man even offered meat from his daughter and son to his wife when she returned from a business trip. He was arrested and sentenced to death after she informed the authorities and the children’s bodies were found. The reports were originally compiled by Asia Press using “citizen journalists”
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I'm guessing they were hungry an hour later too.

evenflow · Aug 6, 2014

In all seriousness, I assumed that this thread was about this story.

Japanese whaling crew 'eaten alive by killer whales, 16 dead' story definitely a hoax

Fake quotes from Greenpeace smelled fishy, but it didn't stop people being duped

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The story of a Japanese whaling crew attacked and eaten by a school of killer whales that supposedly left 16 people dead, has been called out as a hoax.

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Reportedly sourced from the Japanese government, the story was published by the World News Daily Report, and despite its apparent 237,083 shares on Facebook, neither the story nor its popularity added up.

"A Japanese whaling crew has fallen victim to a dramatic full on assault by a school of killer whales, killing no less then [sic] 16 crew members and injuring 12, has reported [sic] the Japanese government this morning," the introduction read.

According to the story, Japan’s primary whaling vessel, the MV Nisshin Maru, described as "the world’s only whaler factory ship", suffered a gas leak while carrying "1,000 tons of oil" that led the crew to abandon safety procedures and leap off the boat into the sea.

The crew members were then "ferociously attacked" by a school of killer whales where the ship had been sailing, which happened to be the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary – a "controversial" area to be whaling in, the article suggested, considering that in March this year Japan’s government-subsidised scientific whaling programme in the Southern Ocean was found to be illegal by an international court.

This was, perhaps, the hook for the satirical piece, which quoted Greenpeace as saying: "It seems that Japan just doesn’t give a damn about international law. The waste of life is always a shame, but the whales are not to blame here, they were only doing what they are born to do: kill for food."

Despite the various markers that the story was more than playful, it didn’t stop some anti-whaling readers from rejoicing in the news. The story’s actual Facebook shares numbered around 450, with varying comments. One person wrote: "Too bad the Whales couldn't have sunk the KILLING SHIP--Japan was breaking international law Now maybe they will be held accountable and stopped," with others writing "What goes around comes around," and "Whoa… if that’s not karma, I don’t know what is! Awesome".

A quick surf around the publication’s site however, gives the impression that World News Daily Report is not something that covers factual news. Headlines such as "Alien Abduction Cases Soar in Cape Town, South Africa," and "Bengali Man Pregnant with Twins," or "Moldova: Tobacco-Free Cigarettes Highly Popular with Children," give its intentions away somewhat.

Not to mention the disclaimer carried on its site, calling it a "news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real name, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction, and presumably fake news".
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