Probably the most renowned example of Chinese human-flesh hunting saw a Hangzhou woman vilified and eventually sacked after a clip showing her crushing a cat underfoot went viral in 2006. The subsequent outrage was ferocious and reached right across the country. “Find her and kick her to death like she did to the kitten,” wrote one user on Mop, a Chinese online forum. Her identity was eventually gleaned by thousands of netizens piecing together fragments of clues from the footage. After noticing a credit on the video belonged to a company in Hangzhou, it was not long until the cat killer, named Wang Jiao, was traced to Luobei, a small village in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. She and the clip’s cameraman lost their government jobs and had to flee town soon afterward.
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