Chinese Billionaire Dies After Eating Poisoned Cat Meat Stew
- Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:30am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A Chinese billionaire is dead after apparently ingesting some slow-boiled cat meat stew — though it wasn’t the cat meat that killed him.
Police in southern China have detained a local official on suspicion of poisoning the stew at the restaurant where the two were eating in Guangdong province on Dec. 23.
Agriculture official Huang Guang, billionaire Long Liyuan and a third diner were sharing a cat meat hot pot — a local delicacy — when Huang allegedly dropped some toxic herbs into the stew, the BBC reported.
Long, who ran a forestry company, was taken to the hospital after feeling dizzy and sick and later suffered a cardiac arrest. Huang and the third diner were hospitalized as well, though both survived. According to the New York Times, Huang had apparently eaten some of the poisoned stew himself to avoid suspicion.
Police detained Huang on Dec. 30, after discovering evidence that Huang had embezzled money from Long.
Police initially took the restaurant’s owner into custody on suspicion of serving unsanitary food, according to the BBC. Long’s family, not believing he died simply of food poisoning, offered a $16,000 reward for information and insisted police keep the case open.
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Comments (110)
spurjimmy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:47amI hope he shared his recipe with George Soros.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:14amsoros probably gave it to him.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:29pmI believe the recipe came from ALF but since he was alien it may have been Interpreted wrong.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:33amWow, and I thought the whole selling a cat to a Chinese restaurant thing was a stereotype.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:40amRon Paul smells like the Constitution. Wash your upper lip.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:29amThan how can you vote for Ron Paul?
Report Post »GLENNONALL
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:14amFour more years of Obama and we all might be looking for cat recipes
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:11amThis brings whole new meaning to… Catfood isle
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:17am@ republicorp
Report Post »I have’nt yet, and i will support whomever our nominee is… Including Ron Paul, if he wins it, cuz Obama’s gonna have us all eating cats and dogs by the end of his next term…. We gotta stick together folks, none of our folks are perfect, but all of them are better than a full blown Marxist !!!!! AGREE ?
Twobyfour
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:01pmDP, of course AGREE.
I am just concerned that Paulistinians if them don’t get RP as nominee (waaaah, waaaa…), they may get some idiotic ideas like pulling the lever for Teh Won. Don‘t say that they won’t, I’ve heard it here too often for comfort.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:33amThe two principles in this story were Huang and Long. Clearly porn.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:06am@baddoggy
Report Post »You forgot the third priciple….. eating poison Pu22¥
lovinight
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:10amServes him right, best story I have heard on this topic! They skin up to 100k Animals (dogs & cats) alive daily for fur. The cats served at these restaurants are boiled alive, I wish it killed them all!
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:49am“Serves him right” Haha
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:57amFYI: When in China, never pass a shop full of kittens and puppies and point to one. You maybe soon met at the door with it skinned and neatly wrapped. No kidding.
Report Post »Docroxall
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:09amConfusius say, “Man who eat cat stew, must face the PURRRFECT destiny”.
Report Post »ItTakesFaith
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40amEverybody, count your blessings… you, too could’ve been born in an area where “cat stew” was considered a “local delicacy”… (Gag!)
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:05amI’ve never tried cat meat. I don’t think I could get passed the cat box smell.
Report Post »I haven’t been around a cat in years. But I can still smell it……………….
ItTakesFaith
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:35amCat meat stew will get you every time…!
Report Post »GeneTracy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:20amPlease pass the catsup.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:37amThat is why I love the Southeast Asians and coyotes….they eat cats. I hate cats. That is like a match made in heaven.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:38amCrazy
They eat dogs to
Report Post »Cat
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:34amDarn cats
Report Post »K commonsense
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:00amA leopard or Jaguar that weighs as much as your dog would shred both of in minutes and carry you and your smelly dirty dog up in a tree to eat. I love dogs
11 years zero baths for my cat and no smell + catbox included go walk your dog
Report Post »Warm In The Desert
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:25amGiven recent history…Why pray tell would any person or their beloved pets, ingest or even topically apply any product produced in whole or part thereof, anything China puts forth on the open market.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:06amCause thats all we have to choose from?
Report Post »theBigToe
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:06amA Chinese businessman’s cat stew was probably poisoned with Mousey Dung.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23387994@N02/6639735615/
Report Post »Docroxall
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:07amOh no you DIDN’T! LOL
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:04amThat was good!!!!!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:45amIt would appear that this is one that can actually be blamed on the Bush. No mention of what the herb was though.
Report Post »majorsco
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:58amMaybe Obama had a hand in it??
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:38amShould’ve had the hot dog instead.
Report Post »Yip….
theyrecomingtotakemeawayhaha
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:15amOh those zany commies. Now,if OWS could get PETA to look the other way when it came to faux gras, by making it faux paws with an arsenic chaser, then they could effectively deal with their precious 1%. I wonder if Glenn knows about the “end around the puty attack” that is coming fur sure.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:02amWhat a loving family, $16,000 reward for a billionaire, the cat’s out of the bag.
Report Post »Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:14amKeep your day job. Comedy is not in your future.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:16amYou are right, but your name sure makes me laugh.
Report Post »Thank You
Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:21amIf you click on it, you’ll see that I joined TheBlaze in Sept. 2010 (before Huck was out and Newt was in) when it was brand new. Huck is obviously my candidate of choice, but, now I’m all in for Newt. Let me guess. Paulsy?
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:58amNo, no Pauly here, but the Huck is the one that makes me laugh.
Report Post »Got to sign off, over and out.
Dr Vel
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:34amNext time try actually reading before you speak in ignorance. The restaurant owner arrested for serving contaminated food was innocent and is not a billionaire. His family put up the reward trying to prove neither he nor his food was to blame. Let me guess, you actually vote too. No wonder we have dictators and criminals running the country. Lovinight if boiled food cats bother you, cannot you also defend all those poor lobsters tortured in boiling water over here?
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:08amDr. vel, you must have a degree, why else would you be so f–king stupid, cannot read? F–k you, f–king Derilict.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:20amI love cats and dogs, anyone wanting to eat them, should die.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:55amI was wondering why my alley cat had that huge grin on his face all day, now I know.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:52amwho cares.
Report Post »Tretka
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:46amHmmmm. The tainted cat food that China shipped over here a few years back killed my big male cat. I wonder if this man’s family felt as bad as we did about big Sidney? RIP ole Sidney.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:03amSorry for your loss. More sorry for the Chinese kids who have died from tainted food.
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:45amWhat did he have a billion of ? ……………
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:51amNo longer matters; he is dead, and it would not suprise me if it actually was an assassination.
Report Post »ItTakesFaith
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:38amHe earned his billions in the restaurant business…
Report Post »newhickschick
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:44amGosh, I wonder if all those Occupy people who were served organic gourmet meals would appreciate eating anything they can get their hands on as the people in those countries whose governments they admire so very much.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:24amNEWHICKSCHICK, They would eat their own mother for their puppet master.
Report Post »deadb4red
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:39amIt was the cat’s meow! Probably choked on a fur ball
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:39amBy who’s standards, was he a Billionaire?
Report Post »Got2bRoni
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:32amLol.. really;??
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