Two knives, a whole lot of Red Bull and one messed up dude

Upset that his boss was living a luxurious life and he couldn’t even afford cigarettes, 30-year-old Lai Yanwang slammed back a bunch of Red Bull, grabbed two (ominously, if not appropriately named) pig killing knives and headed for the office in Dongguan. Is a Bo Staff standard issue in the Guangdong police arsenal?

Things ended reasonably peacefully, with Lai being put to the ground and carted off to jail. Just a little bit of crazy for your morning coffee.

Update [01/29/10]:
Just wanted to add a bit of a translation of the text from ChinaGeeks:

Main Title: Double Swordsman in Crowded Shopping Area Seeks Money, Police Use Special Techniques to Subdue Him.

Scrolling subtitles (loosely translated): On the 26th, a Guangzhou man took his pants off and attacked the door of his company with “pig-killing knives” after being denied workers compensation for an injury he suffered. He said: “I have no clothes, no food to eat, I can only steal [to survive]. It’s not that I don’t want to be a good person, it’s that my family environment and the reality of society today haven’t given me an opportunity. Rich people have everything, I don’t even have cigarettes to smoke. Rather than resigning myself to living like this, it’s better to use this method [i.e., taking to the road in one’s underpants and a butcher’s knife] to change my destiny.” The police used special methods to subdue him, and no one was injured. According to the man’s former boss and work friends, he was willfully causing trouble and [trying to] blackmail [them].

Be sure to check out the whole post for a translation of the song in the background, “Don’t Be Infatuated With Brother”. ChinaSMACK has some Chinese netizen comments translated as well.

(h/t HHR)