China threatens death penalty in oil theft

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Chinese police have threatened to begin imposing the death penalty in their all-out war on pipeline oil thieves, the BBC reported Saturday.

Senior police officials said production facilities had been wrecked by oil thieves in many cases. Police figures show oil theft cost the industry more than $124.6 million and led to 2,877 arrests.

Criminal punishments will be meted out, including the death penalty, Ma Weiya, vice director of the police social security management department, said.

He said most of the thieves are peasant farmers in impoverished and remote areas where the earning power is about one-third of city-dwelling counterparts
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If China would PAY their people they wouldn't freakin steal... Things are getting very tense in China because of gas shortages...

of fossil and archeological digs. Fossils and artifacts deprived of context are marketable to rich Western collectors, but are useless to science.

But they're faceless yellow people, so who cares, huh?

Peace.

All you gotta do is check the list of countries that have it.