Living in China, one may ultimately have a run-in with the “aunties”: a throng of middle-aged women who gather in groups to perform uniform line dancing. What the aunties may lack in a diversity of movement, they exceed in their numbers as well as the music they play when they dance – music that sometimes seems to be on the loud side.

For one resident, enough was enough; he had it with the aunties.

On August 30 at around 20:00, 56 year-old Mr Shi got into an argument with his neighbors over the loud music which was disrupting his sleep. "They played their music too loudly," said Mr Shi. "The reverberations would give me headaches. The noise was so bad that I was not able to sleep."

Mr Shi enjoys peace and quiet, and has trouble sleeping. Shi moved out next to an abandoned cement factory, but was surprised to find out that the square next to his house would be used by middle-aged women dancing in the morning.

On the day of the incident, Mr Shi had been drinking alcohol. Shi said he had been harboring this grievance for a long time as negotiations over this issue never resolved anything. As such, Shi’s frustration had finally come to a head.

Unable to bear any more loud music, Shi used a double-barreled hunting gun to fire warning shots into the air as a way to scare the dancers. As though this was not enough, Shi also released three Tibetan mastiffs to clear the square of its dancers.

Said Shi, "This is just like a kettle boiling over in which I finally had to vent my frustration in some way."

Yesterday afternoon, Mr Shi was put on trial at the Changping Courts for illegal possession of a firearm.

Source: Sohu

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