Some reader is not going to like this. :-)
“我每天读《人民日报》（英文版）！”
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200005/15/eng20000515_40851.html
Police Detains Man for Training Dumb Kids into Thieves
Police have seized a person who trained a number of dumb children into thieves. Chen Linhu, himself a dumb person, was recently caught in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province.
Chen had been looking for dumb children in the northern Shanxi province and kidnapped them to other parts of the country to receive training on theft tricks.
With some legal knowledge, Chen even saved a lot of dumb thieves as a "lawyer". Many dumb pickpockets worshipped Chen and would offer part of stolen money to him.
Chen used to be a reporter at a journal of the Association of the Handicapped in the city of Linfen in the Shanxi Province. Recently, Chen and another dumb man kidnapped two dumb children from a school in Linfen to Nanjing but fell into the hands of the police.
The two abducted children have returned home.
"Could the reporter have meant deaf boys? I wonder."
Now, "society news" of the day:
"Wooooo! Violence, titillating violence, I like!"
http://dailynews.sina.com.cn/society/2000-05-15/89422.html
酒店员工持锹围攻种树人员 绿化办调冲锋枪护驾 《辽沈晚报》
本报讯：(记者宋建波陶刚报道)上周五14时，位于沈阳市于洪区沈辽路上的一个饭店门前，沈阳市绿化监察大队与该饭店老板发生冲突。一边是饭店女老板手持铁锹率领10多个店员阻止绿化办人员种树；另一边是绿化监察大队治安人员手握3支微型冲锋枪、外加两支五四式手枪助阵植树。虽然双方没有造成人员伤亡，但这种真枪上阵的场面实不多见。
30分钟后，记者闻讯赶到冲突地点时，双方的对峙已经结束，但是手持枪支的治安人员未撤。在武装人员的保护下，绿化办雇来的数十名工人在饭店门前一大片空地上加紧种植丁香树。
据一位曾被饭店员工围攻的工作人员说，上午时分，根据市有关部门的规划，沈阳市绿化办在这个地方种植树木。当进行到一半时，从一个叫舒静园的酒店里出来一个30多岁的女老板，领着几名员工用铁锹把已经挖好的树坑填上土。他上前阻止这种行为，并说明这个地方是绿化地带，这个女老板手拿铁锹比划着说：“我看谁敢再挖坑。”这时有一辆面包车突然开进正在种植的空地停下，挖坑只好停下来。绿化办的工作人员见状忙让干活的工人把车抬出去，店方也组织员工实行阻拦。这样，双方经过近半个小时的“唇枪舌剑”后，火药味越来越浓。
沈阳市绿化监察大队50多人接警赶到现场。店方见对方手持冲锋枪前来助阵，顿时软了下来，赶紧声称“你们种吧”。
据了解，在此之前绿化办曾先后两次向这家饭店下达办理用地“通知单”，但该饭店置之不理，绿化办只好按规定办事。
记者离开那里时，该饭店的女老板表示要办理“沈阳市占用园林绿地申请表”。[不懂上面两段，没翻。]
但是，这时记者看到饭店的门前树已种上，变成绿地一片了。
Trees planted after showing of guns, in Shenyang
(Shenyang, 05/15/2000) Reported at 2:00 PM, last Friday, at a location on Shenliao Road, Yuhong District, was a clash between an enforcement squad of the city's Urban Beautification Department and a proprietress of a nearby restaurant. On one side were the woman and her posse of ten Employees of the Month, all with shovels in hand, trying to block the planting of some trees by a UBD crew. On the other, the SWAT team of the UBD's enforcement arm, equipped with three miniature-sized machine guns and two .54 caliber pistols, in favor of the tree planting. There were no casulties reported in this incident. Militarized feuds like this have been rare since the closing of the Great Cultural Revolution.
At 2:30 PM, this Reporter rushed to the battlefield on the double, only to see the last of the show. Under the protection of armed men, dozens of UBD-contracted gardeners worked against time to plant the lilac trees in a large lot in front of the restaurant.
According to an enforcement official who had been pushed around a little by the kitchen staff in the scuffle, the work crew was dispatched by the city planning department to plant the trees. When the project was halfway through, a woman who claimed to be the owner of Calm Gardens Restaurant and several of her employees came over and started to shovel the dirt back into the tree holes. The official confronted the woman and asked her not to interfere with official city business. She waved her shovel at him and said, "Yeah baby, tell it to my friend here!" That's when a van dashed into the tree lot and parked, making impossible the continued hole-digging. As the UBD staff ordered the workmen to push the van out, more waitresses and busboys joined their colleagues to block the way. After half an hour of a tug of war or a war of words, you could have smelled the sulphurous gun powder in the air.
Riding to the resuce were 50 of the UBD enforcement's finest, who were tipped off by the police. With gun sights trained on them, the restaurant people were reduced to a whimper, "O.K., plant those damn trees! Knock yourselves out!"
At last glance, the trees were like an oasis in a desert.