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Kung Fu Expert in China Beats Up Mob of 50 Trying to Evict Him
To understand the background of the incident - and the plight of Chinese homeowners attempting to resist eviction when the government wants to build something on their land - watch this short video:
Now that you’ve got the background, you’re ready for the story from the Telegraph on the Kung Fu hero:
When 38-year-old Shen Jianzhong was faced with a mob of thugs trying to evict him, he asked himself what his hero, Bruce Lee, would do.
The answer, according to a video that has attracted more than two million hits on the Chinese internet, is turn to kung fu.
For 20 years, Mr Shen had been practising kung fu, teaching himself Bruce Lee’s system in his courtyard home in Bazhou, Hebei province.
Working in a local gym as a fitness coach, he is also the holder of a world record, at least according to an association in Hong Kong, for the most press-ups in a minute using a roller. “I am now training to break the record for most press-ups on a balance beam,” he said.
At the end of October, Mr Shen was able to put his kung fu into action. For six months, a property developer had been trying to get his hands on Mr Shen’s house.
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At first, the property company stuck up posters warning of dire consequences for any families who held out. Then, Mr Shen said, when 70 of the 100 households had left, the threats escalated.
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This mob of thugs would block the street most days. They would pick on the women, threatening to kill their kids. Then people started tossing bricks through windows and letting off fireworks at night. Some people got beaten on the street.”
On October 29, as Mr Shen went to work and his wife popped out for a packet of instant noodles, a mob of “30 to 50 men” materialised at their front door.
“My wife tried to close the door, but they pushed it back and she tripped over. That is how the fight started,” said Mr Shen.
With a flurry of kicks and punches, he and his 18-year-old son, a fellow kung fu devotee, set about the attackers, rendering seven of them near unconscious in the hallway.
“It was self defence. I really cannot remember what kung fu skills I used.
It was quite messy. Only seven people were injured because the rest were scared and stayed outside. Some of them ran away,” he said.
When the police arrived, however, they were little help, insisting that since the thugs were unarmed, it was Mr Shen and his family who were in the wrong. They urged the family to sign the contract.
Instead, the Shens posted their homemade video online, where it has gone viral as a rare David versus Goliath moment in the bleak fight against China’s avaricious property barons.
They then fled, on the evening of November 21, to Beijing. Upon arriving in the capital, however, Mr Shen’s son was arrested by the police, who said they would charge him with assault.
“I do not regret the fight, but I am worried about my son,” said Mr Shen.
“I think they are trying to fit up him up with some crime. I am concerned that my actions will end up hurting him,” he said, acknowledging that officials may try to emotionally blackmail him into signing over his lease.
Here’s video of the aftermath … showing the injured thugs:
And - since this is fight club - here's Bruce Lee:
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I'd offer em a chance to change sides; why shoot someone who could be useful?
COMING TO THE USA!!! It's been here....people don't fight. They just leave with no resistance.
As it stands now, but when things get bad the whole dynamic falls apart.
L.A. Riots and Katrina? Imagine that in a major city over food/shelter.
S.W.A.T. could easily be overwhelmed by numbers.
In the USSA , they deploy the swat team and the Army and shoot you. Problem solved,
Bullshit. It would be decade long court case here. People bitching about socialism, communism, etc.. need to understand how shit goes down in other countries... you are SO lucky to live here.
Perhaps you are right....for now sunshine.
Get real -- shoot at a cop or at the military and it's over, pal.
Or even have the cops believe they were shot at like in Cleveland where an unarmed couple was shot by police 137 times & died.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/11/cleveland_east_clevelan...
Bullshit... you got 50 guys trying to bum rush your residence and they come in the front door? There wouldn't even be a prosecution for the dozen bodies that hit the floor before the rest could flee back outside... it would be a mess to clean up though... like a damn slasher movie or something.
Agreed that 50 men is an unlikely scenario, as you must have done something really big to piss off so many people that they'd band together to pull you out of your home. If there were 50 attackers going up against a domicile, it would likely play out very differently: The dumbest ones would be told to kick down the front door, upon which the homeowner would (if properly armed and ready) blow perforation holes in two of them as soon as their feet crossed the door's threshold. The rest of that small group would panic at the sight of blood/spatter on their shirts and would run back out to the street where the bulk of the attackers are still standing.
Now that the smarter ones know for sure that you're armed, they produce some Molotov cocktails and calmly announce that you have one minute to exit the front door or you'll be burned alive. You could, of course, shoot the leader SOB in the head while he's attempting to intimidate you with a death threat, but if YOU'RE armed, you can be certain a mob of 50 has their own guns as well. Unless you live in a solid brick house, we can safely assume that your outer walls are "ballistically transparent", and they'd simply let fly with 30 seconds of random hostile fire. They would only burn your house as a last resort, as a tall column of smoke would alert the countryside to the situation and possibly present a "spreading fire" danger to nearby structures, but they might do it just to retaliate for the two dumbasses you dropped in your front hallway.
(...wouldn't it be a sight, though, to pop a bullet through a flaming Molotov as the guy is screaming threats at you, only to have the liquid spatter on him and light him up, providing an excellent deterrent to anyone else in the crowd from trying to pull out a bottle of his own against you?...)
So either you get shot through your walls, or you get shot as you exit, or you burn in your own home. The only remaining strategy is to drop as many attackers as possible, as quickly as possible. If they scatter and leave, you can be certain they WILL be back to kill you with a vengeance, so no matter what your house will be toast in the end. Grab your family (and arm every one of them if possible), get your PMs and important paperwork, your go-bags, and sneak out. Kiss your house good-bye, but be thankful to have a chance to maybe get out with your lives and the shirts on your backs.
If the S truly does HTF in any appreciable manner, this exact scenario will play out in some form or another in various areas. I would NOT want to be defending myself against a mob all by myself.
This is exactly what happened in Zimbabwe. The attacked lost, except for those who said, "fuck this, I am out of here."
Must build moat.
Dunno.
My Ex. Wife's door was kicked in by local police in the middle of the night.
Knocked, waited 30 seconds. As she was coming down the stairs to open the door they kicked it in.
No probable cause, no warrant, no apology, no money to repair the door/locks.
She works for an attorney's office and they told her not to bother to file a case as the judge would dismiss it out of hand.
3 fucking Rottweilers would send them home in a sec
Land of the Brave and home of the free.
can you say banana?
The bigger issue is that the filing fees probably cost more than the door... I strongly suspect she would win her day in court in virtually every venue in the country, but the cost would be obscene to get there... and she wouldn't recover it.
I don't think she would have won her day in court; whole new attitude with the Police and Justice System these days.
Kind of... most of the changes seem to be to the inidgent->slave labor side of the law or lack of prosecution for the cream of the crop, but this really isn't anything new. Cases get thrown out daily for lack of warrant, knock and announce, you name it... if the popos come in and break your door down, a jury of your peers is going to give you the money for your door. The only problem is that it takes a really, really long time and costs a lot of money... that you'll never see back.
Or, an officer "accidently" trips and kills you:
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20110106grandpa_killed_in_dru...
The officer was cleared.
Rottweilers prevent these accidents; also, your petite girlfriend/daughter can walk around anywhere without any funnyguy
Remember this?
brings so many ideas to mind
Thanks for that. Many don't want to see the reality that we are rapidly devolving into a complete police state.
Agreed. In Norfolk VA, a small time marajuana dude had his doors busted in the middle of the night without any attempts at knocking or announcing they were the police. Logically fearing for his safety, he shot one of the cops, non-critically. Natuarally he was convicted on a myriad of charges including resisting arrest, assult bla bla and they hung him. In the papers about a year ago.
Pri he soon evvy von gonto Ku foo fightin.
YU Pee.
Bruce Lee's sign says:
"Diaoyu Islands are mine...bitchez."
Japan is so fucked if they press the issue; and so are us with those outdated target-me-please-carriers
Wasn't that An Anonymous in the bad mullet wig?
No wonder his shit is so scrambled.
Ha! Make me raf!!!
Los Angeles is going to be stealing thousands of homes along the LA River for "Community Redevelopment", fortunately Americans don't have to resort to Kung Fu, we have guns, we'll post on Youtube too.
Better watch out. Head Negro says he has a list of everyone who's naughty or nice.
City officials around here recently designated over half of the city as being "blighted" (including the country club area of town!). They justified it initially as only doing it in order to qualify it for federal funding. After the ensuing backlash, they actually ended up retracting the document, and a council member went so far as to introduce a motion to prevent the city from using blight as a factor in justifying eminent domain.
"Thank God I'm a country boy!"
In Michgan (as elsewhere), Gov Snyder (Gateway Computer founder Rick Snyder) appointed "Emergency Financial Managers" to replace all elected officials of cities in financial trouble. The idea is basically to screw the people and protect the investors, imo. The windfall for your crony buyers from the Serious People set is just an added bonus.
Predictably, prime real estate started being "privatized" to raise funds to avoid bankruptcies and bruised investors.
Here's some on Lake Michigan that got turned into a golf course and luxury condo development:
http://www.invw.org/article/benton-harbor-michigan-1280
It's what neo-liberal sharks are looking for in the era of floundering local and state governments.
Too bad Michigan voters used the recent election to pass a "Fuck You Snyder" referendum that banned imposition of Emergency Managers.
Hard to give a fuck about Michigan, Micronesia, Myanmar, or other 3rd world fuck-ups
Detroit was a first world fuck up...
My guess is MI taxpayers were tired off shoveling endless amounts of money into corrupt Detroit.
So not much different than here (Kelo Decision) except Americans for the most part are to fat or lazy to fight.
How's everyone's iGadget?
your kung fu is strong
A long time ago a simiar exchange happened (in Los Angeles) when some gang members decided to beat up some "old man" (who happened to be some temple mucky muck).
The temple emptied out and the ambulances kept comming.
The police pretty much did nothing.
Was pretty funny.
This is no different than the kind of harassment we are hearing about right here in America from private landowners who are being forced off their land by Agenda 21 psychopaths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oevj6XokVw
Locally, one night approximately 10 years ago, 30 or so fratboys decided it would be a good idea to throw bricks at vehicles passing in front of the frat house... unfortunately they thew the brick into the windshield of a small work truck... whose driver (alone) decided to stop the vehicle, exit, and pick up a baseball bat lying in the pickup bed. Accounts vary, but the man approached the frat house and began cleaning house. Approximately half the kids ran away upon his stopping and of the remaining half, 10 or so got ambulance trips, some with severe injuries.
Turns out the guy was an ex seal... I'm pretty sure he wasn't even prosecuted.
And who says you can't learn anything in college!
the police know they got sniper scopes on them if they fuck up
Postscript: While there's no footage of the actual fight, here are some moves by Bruce Lee - Shen Jianzhong's inspiration - against a martial arts class, and a gang of thugs (from the movie "Fists of Fury"):
Figjhting in real life doesn't look anything like the movies, or like tournaments of any kind.
The range is totally different, it goes from 3 feet to 18 inches very quickly and they don't line up and wait for you, so most of the sports and highly stylised stuff taught by many schools will just get you beat up or stabbed, or shot in the US. If you want to learn self defence forget about "styles", when you get in a fight there is no style. Look for local courses taught by people who deal with people confrontationally constantly; police, military, bouncers, bodyguards.
This guy is clearly a high level stylist:
Note the PLACEMENT of the bodies(stacked up like cordwood)-AND THEIR LACK OF MOTOR NERVE RESPONSE. HE CAUGHT THEM COMING IN AND CRUSHED THIS ASSAULT OUTRIGHT--WITH NO REGARD FOR INDIVIDUAL LEVELS OF SKILL OR LACK OF SAME. HE BLASTED THESE GUYS RIGHT OUT OF THEIR SOCKS. THIS IS WHY ALL THE POSTURING ON HERE ABOUT HOW 'GUNS' WILL GIVE YOU THE EDGE--ARE JUST SO MUCH HOT AIR.YOU DON'T NEED TO RELOAD YOUR BODY. I'M ASTONISHED THAT THIS MAN IS STILL ALIVE-BECAUSE WHO ever SENT THESE GUYS LOST ABOUT 89% OF HIS AVAILABLE FACE--IN A SINGLE ENGAGEMENT.
IMPRESSIVE.
It's not all that esoteric. Just get into a lot of fights and you'll learn soon enough. The "so-called styles" were created by people who had to fight for their lives, health and wealth. Believe me, it was for real - and can still be if taken seriously. All you need to to is take away the rules and let the best man win. The best fighter hits from behind and tries not to even let his opponent know its coming.
Sounds like high school. Of course, I was on the receiving end. Stairwells were death traps.
Reggie, you are exactly right. When I was in martial arts and fighting in a [rather large] tournament a decade ago, I had chased my opponent (who was taller and larger than I was) out of the mat boundary. The ref yelled for us to stop - to get back on the mat and resume - and of course I stopped, came to attention, faced the ref, and waited for his instruction. In a martial arts tournament, all respect goes to the ref, no questions asked.
My opponent chose that opportunity to roundhouse-kick me in the face from behind, and I not only ended up on the floor for the only time in my life, but also with a small scar on my face that required stitches. It remains to this day a constant reminder for me (every morning when I look in the mirror) to remain vigilant to my surroundings, everywhere, especially to my periphery.
The results:
#1) He was immediately ejected from the tournament for poor sportsmanship.
#2) I immediately learned the best lesson in combat - never, ever, EVER turn your back on your opponent or take your eyes off of him. Period. In a real fight where people will intend you harm, you won't just end up on your back with a few stitches...you might end up in the ground pushing daisies.
Sounds like the ref forgot to tell you to "protect yourself at all times."
Must be some reason they say that before every fight??
(I've done dumber things)