Re: Karma: Billionaire dies from eating cat stew

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On Jan 6, 9:29 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> A very wealthy man in that socialist paradise called the People's Republic
> of China -- a billionaire -- died from eating a dish of slow-boiled cat
> meat stew.
>
> The AP reports<http://news.yahoo.com/police-think-poisoned-cat-meat-killed-china-tyc...>from
> Beijing, Jan 3, 2012, that Long Liyuan, 49, died on Dec. 23 in China's
> booming southeastern Guangdong province after sharing a dish of slow boiled
> cat meat stew, "a southern delicacy," with two men over a business lunch.
>
> One of the men, local official Huang Guang, was arrested by police on
> Friday on suspicion of poisoning the hotpot with a toxic herb, Gelsemium
> elegans. Police say Huang and Long had economic disputes and had met for
> lunch to discuss a business contract. Long, who ran a forestry company in
> Guangdong, wanted to lease a piece of woodland and develop it.
>
> All three men were sickened, but Long died because he consumed more of the
> cat stew -- and thus, more of the poisonous herb. The third man at the
> table, Huang Wen, a friend of Long's, was quoted by media as saying he had
> only eaten a little because it tasted "more bitter" than usual.
>
> Long, who ate more than the others, soon felt dizzy and sick and was taken
> to a hospital where he went into cardiac arrest and died.
>
> Police initially detained the restaurant's owner on suspicion of serving
> unsanitary food. But the businessman's family refused to believe it was a
> simple case of food poisoning, pressed the police to investigate further
> and offered a reward of 100,000 yuan ($16,000) for information about his
> death.
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> Gelsemium
>
> *Gelsemium elegans <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsemium>* is a poisonous
> plant found in forests in parts of China. *Gelsemium* is a genus of
> flowering plants belonging to family
> *Gelsemiaceae<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsemiaceae>
> *. Appropriately, *G. elegans* is nicknamed "heartbreak grass."
>
> *~Eowyn*
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>  *Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
> January 6, 2012 at 5:25 am | Tags:
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