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The Bucket Stops Here

Kathryn Quinn

Wealthy businessman Yang Lin fought dirty when a KFC branch ignored his complaint about hygiene.

Angry Yang blew 14,000 GBP buying 2,000 family buckets at the branch in central China after staff did nothing when he saw a chef preparing food without gloves or a face shield.

Then he began lining them up outside the entrance to the shop with signs warning people not to eat them because they were a health risk.

"I wanted to buy all their food so they couldn't poison anyone else and I wanted to warn people what sort of food they were eating," said 30-year-old Yang.

"I'm lucky to have made money in business so I can afford this protest. At first KFC wanted my money, but soon they were begging me to take it back," he added.

Yang only agreed to end the bucket blockade after KFC managers in Wuhan, Hubei province, publicly apologised for their behaviour and agreed to improve staff hygiene.

"If they'd done that at the start they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble," said Yang.

Tragic Ski Girl Dies
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Peak Performance
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Chinese Fakeaway
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Serial killer survivor walks away alive after fall
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The son of Qatar Airlines BA beaten up in Romania
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Majority starts president’s suspension procedures
A day after the Social Liberal Union (USL) legislators dismissed with a large majority of votes the two Speakers of the Parliament, the Union started today the procedures for the suspension and possible impeachment of President Traian Basescu. This is the second time when the Parliament asks for Basescu’s suspension.

Some 177 Roma repatriated by French authorities to Romania
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