China sentences man to life in prison for avoiding tolls

[tonado]

It is like tax evasion in this country. Don't do it.

 

 

http://www.wwltv.com/news/strange-news/China-sentences-man-to-life-in-prison-for-avoiding-road-tolls-113610104.html

 

"A Chinese court announced Friday it will retry a farmer sentenced to life in prison for evading highway tolls after a massive public outcry over his heavy punishment."

[K.M.]

Reading carefully, it is not just evasion of the tolls -- although that in and of itself to the tune of over 3.5 million RMB is not like stealing a bottle of milk -- but he did so by impersonating military personnel.

 

He's damned lucky they didn't give him the needle.

Edited January 15, 2011 by K.M. (see edit history)

[Mike and Yan]

"The court in central Henan province had sentenced Shi Jianfeng to life imprisonment for fraud for avoiding highway tolls that added up to more than 3.68 million yuan ($560,000), the official Xinhua News Agency reported. He was also fined 2 million yuan ($302,000).

 

Shi mounted fake military license plates on his two trucks so they could avoid paying tolls more than 2,300 times between May 2008 and January 2009 when he ran a business transporting gravel. Military vehicles don't have to pay highway tolls."

 

That is 1600Y or $240 (at 6.6 Y/$) every toll, YIKES!!!

 

YEAH!....OFF with his HEAD!!!

 

(for getting caught)