Remember this guy? Yang Youde, the maverick farm-defender with the homemade cannons and improvised defence system? It didn’t turn out very well for him in the end. The Chinese authorities unsurprisingly failed to see the funny side of it.
Most farmers will just grab a shotgun or phone the police when confronted with trespassers. Not Chinese farmer Yang Youde, who fires petrol bombs from his homemade cannon – one time, he held off 100 people.
