Pair sentenced over attack on goose eggs

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 16, 2019
By: Chen Kuan-pei and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Changhua District Court found two local residents guilty of pouring boiling water on goose eggs at

A gander and two geese owned by a woman surnamed Lin approach a reporter on Lin’s farm in Changhua County’s Yuanlin Township on Sunday.
Photo: Chen Kuan-pei, Taipei Times

a neighbor’s farm in Changhua County’s Yuanlin Township (員林).

Chang Chen-mei (張陳梅), 74, and her son Chang Tzu-hsi (張慈錫), 53, were handed prison sentences of 28 and eight days respectively for property damage, which can be commuted to fines of NT$1,000 per day, the court said.

A woman surnamed Lin (林) who lives on a farm near the Chang residence, said her family keeps geese for security reasons and she installed cameras after their eggs failed to hatch, court documents showed.

Footage showed that the Changs had entered the property and poured boiling water on the eggs, Lin said.    [FULL  STORY]

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