Animal cruelty in China is clearly alive and well: Europics.at

Animal cruelty is clearly alive in China, judging by these astonishing pictures.

Locals attacked a wild boar in a city centre with sticks and clubs, before police shot the animal – and then ate it.

The huge pig had burst into a hospital complex in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, northern China, and charged at staff.

“It was mad with hunger and when we tried to stop it, the boar came after us,” said a hospital spokesman.

“No matter what we did we couldn’t drive it away.”

But when police arrived and finally cornered the 200lbs animal, rather than trap or tranquilise it they pumped 13 rounds from their handguns into it’s exhausted body – and then carted the carcass off to the local butcher.

One officer, who asked not to be named, told the Austrian Times: “He turned it into some very tasty cuts which we cooked and ate that night as a feast for the whole station.

“It’s sad he had to die but he made a delicious meal.

Animal cruelty in action: A policeman takes aim

Animal Cruelty: A man ties a rope around the dead carcus

Animal cruelty: The bloody dead animal is dragged into a police van

The good luck charms he was cutting up didn't work, obviously

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD has had a miracle escape after slipping over on a pair of razor-sharp scissors.

The tiny tot had been cutting up traditional good luck scrolls at his family home in China.

But when little Yuqi Lui’s father arrived home, the boy sprinted to the front door to meet him, tripped and the blades  slammed through his face and became embedded next to his brain.

His mother Fengshuang said: “I heard him shout ‘Papa!’ and run out.

“I looked out the window expecting to see him come into view and then suddenly I heard him scream.

“It was a terrible high pitched wail and my heart leapt into my mouth.

“I ran and when I got to him I saw the huge pair of scissors that he had been using to cut up the scrolls was jutting from his face.”

The child’s parents borrowed a farm truck for an agonising ride around local hospitals seeking treatment for their stricken son.

And after 17 hours on the road, surgeons at Beijing’s Capital Institute of Pediatrics at the Xiehe Hospital agreed to operate.

X-rays showed the blades had only been stopped from reaching Yuqi’s brain because thet had caught on his jawbone.

His mother added:”He told us that if the scissors had been pulled out when the accident happened our son would have died.”

Yuqi has now made a full recovery after two weeks in hospital.

“It cost us all the savings we had but it was worth it to get the sunshine back into our lives,” added his relieved mother.

The four-year-old has made a full recovery...and now has a cool scar

The fat 49-year-old before weight-loss surgery (Europics.at)

ONE of the world’s fattest men has spoken of his his joy after surgeons sliced a whopping 264lbs of fat from his body.

The man with his pants around his ankles before and after the surgery

This X-ray shows the needles inside the man's stomach Pic: europics.at

But after finding his blood pressure was fine they sent him for X-rays – and found 11 long needles buried in his intestines.

Medics believe that Ching Goha of Leping, eastern China, may have unwittingly injured himself by following an ancient Chinese tradition to ward off evil spirits by carrying big needles.

“I used to carry a bag of them around in my pocket but I never felt anything jabbing into me,” claimed Ching.

Now hospital staff have removed nine of the needles – with some measuring nearly two inches long – and say they will get the final two in a second op.

Some of the needles were more than two inches long

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Medics and firefighters try to free Peng's right arm from the meat grinder

THIS horrified worker got his right forearm mangled by a meat grinder when a co-worker turned on the switch by accident.

The 18-year-old was cleaning the grinder after work when a colleague accidentally turned on the machine, sucking his right arm into the grinder.

The victim, a Mr Peng, was rapidly transferred to Bujie Hospital in southern China’s Guangdong province – along with the machinery.

“I heard a scream so turned it off ,” said the terrified co-worker.

Mr Peng was finally freed several hours later by medics and firefighters using heavy cutting equipment.

His right arm was badly fractured, but miraculously does not need to be amputated.

Most toddlers can't even use cutlery, but he managed to find his own brain with a chopstick Pic: Europics.at

DOCTORS have saved a toddler who fell while trying to walk – and stabbed a chopstick into his brain.

Chao Chao – just 14 months old – was playing by himself at his family home in Shandong, eastern China, when he slipped and fell on the chopstick sending it straight up through his nose.

His parents drove 10 hours to Beijing to a specialist head injury hospital where medics managed to remove the stick during a four hour operation.

“We got to it before any infection set in and he should make a full recovery.

“Although it pierced his brain, it doesn’t seem to have done any long term damage,” head surgeon Dr Sun Wei told the Austrian Times.

What a 54-year-old might look like... Pic: Europics.at

MEET Cindy Jackson who, aged 54, is the most surgically enhanced woman in the world.

Cindy has spent this year altering her appearance to look like movie icon Brigitte Bardot.

On top of the 50 procedures she’s had in the past, she’s filled 2009 with botox, lower lip injections, Restylane injections to fill out her cheeks and Strawberry Laser Lipo treatment on her jawline, stomach and thighs.

In total, she has blown more than £130,000 and had 14 major operations trying to make herself look younger.

She said: “Some say that life begins at 40, but I am loving my 50s.

“On a good day I get chatted up by men in their twenties who think I’m their age and on a bad day I look like I’m in my thirties.

“It’s nice when people say you look great but there is a down side and I have had plenty of nasty comments as well, with people calling me vain and shallow.”

The American, who recently set up own website, has even pledged to keep going under the knife until she is well into her seventies.

She told the Austrian Times: “People say you should grow old gracefully and for me, that is exactly what I am doing! There is nothing graceful about falling to pieces and letting yourself go.

“I have all the benefits of wisdom that come with age but see no reason why I should let those years show in my face.”

Brandy taster Liu Ge's nose has expanded by several inches

A BRANDY taster has been left red-faced after his nose exploded.

Veteran Liu Ge landed the plum job as a teenager and has been drinking up to two litres of strong booze every day for the last 52 years.

It is thought the 68-year-old from Beijing has put away more than 35,000 litres of brandy in that time.

And now he has finally sought medical advice for his damaged hooter.

He said: “Drinking alcohol has been just like drinking water to me.

“I had to drink sometimes two litres a day just to test the quality.”

Doctors in the Chinese capital say Liu has a condition called ‘rhinophyma’ caused by the constant expansion of blood vessels in his nose, which is now a staggering four inches long and two inches wide.