Kang Wan Nian, a villager from an area south of Kunming, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting and eating possibly the last wild Indochinese tiger in China. A previous sighting back in 2007 is believed to have been the same creature.
Kang claimed he was simply digging for freshwater mussels when he was forced to shoot the tiger in self-defence. He then took it home and ate it with his friends! But the court questioned why he had taken a shotgun to collect mussels(!) and how threatened he could have felt when the tiger was shot 35m (115ft) away. The case seems cat and dried to me.
Kang claimed he was simply digging for freshwater mussels when he was forced to shoot the tiger in self-defence. He then took it home and ate it with his friends! But the court questioned why he had taken a shotgun to collect mussels(!) and how threatened he could have felt when the tiger was shot 35m (115ft) away. The case seems cat and dried to me.
