Farmer builds his own cannon to defend his property against demolition.
Regardless of the fact that we’re usually 100% behind any form of demolition, the enforced demolition of so-called Chinese nail houses is a process that we simply cannot condone or defend, particularly when it has led to the death of numerous Chinese citizens killed whilst trying to defend their homes.
But news reaches us that one Chinese farmer has decided to fight fire with fire by building his own cannon to fend off “attackers”.
Yang Youde, aged 56, has a house and a vegetable patch near Jinyinhu part of Dongxihu District in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, where some developers wanted to start a project in 2009. However, before the two sides agree on the compensation, the developer hired security guard to tear down his house.
Angered by the forced defoliation, he made a blockhouse on top of his house, and beat back the “attackers” twice using his home-made cannon.
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