WWZ - Year One - Pre Great Panic
Location - China
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A pre war internet UK news outlet "The Daily Mirror" reports on a "cannibal" attack that took place in the city of Wenzhou in South Eastern China.
The news article reports that a locally known bus driver was heavily intoxicated with alcohol and had "jumped" onto the windscreen of a passing car, "smashing hands and fists" through the motor vehciles glass before the driver of the car tried to escape, but not before the attacker "lept" onto her and wrestled her to the ground, biting her nose and lips, leaving her covered in bite wounds and blood.
However, eye witness reports at the time who posted in Internet forums and pre war social media platforms had a different account of events. According to Ziungh Chiang, a local man who had been sitting at the window of a cafe across the road, the scenario that played out in front of him was vastly different to what the local media had reported at the time.
Ziungh wrote the following on a heavily moderated chinese social media platform.
"This isnt what happened. Id been watching him for a while. I was zoned out and thinking about other things that had been bothering me, but was watching him too. He had been sat by the roadside for some time mumbling and muttering to himself while drinking beer. He didnt look well. One of his hands were bandaged and the dressings looked wet and red, but there was broken glass around him from other bottles so i assumed he had cut his hand. Eventually he passed out from drinking and lay on the road side. I looked away at that point. I was reading the newspaper about this new mysterious flu bug that is sweeping through China and wanted to enjoy my food. By time i had finished my meal about thirty or forty minutes later, maybe an hour, i looked up to see him staggering back to his feet. He walked directly into the path of oncoming traffic, and was hit by a passing car. The car wasnt going that fast, but it was enough to knock someone out. Probably about 30mph or something. Soon as he hit the ground, the driver of the car, a woman, ran to his aid. She knelt down to check if he was OK, but as soon as she did he was on top of her. It looked like he was trying to kiss her, but when I saw blood I realised he was biting. She tried to fight him off, and he bit her again, taking her nose clean off. Lots of people ran to her aid, trying to wrestle the man off her. He didn't budge. Kept tearing into her and bit her on the lips again. Kicks and punches and pulling him away wouldn't do anything. Eventually he got up and tried to attack the womans helpers. He bit one of them on the arm i think but i couldnt tell in the commotion. It wasn't until someone grabbed the empty beer bottle he had left at the side of the road and smashed it over his head that he finally stopped and dropped to the ground. I could hear sirens in the distance. Someone had called the police. I could hear ambulance sirens in the distance too but never got to see what happened next as I had a train to catch and didnt want to miss my TV programs at home"
Its unknown how Chinese censorship did not see this comment on Ziunghs social media that day. It is unclear by what The Daily Mirror had published at the time, and the behaviour of the media during the lead up to The Great Panic, whether or not The Daily Mirror were lying to deliberately misinform the public to avoid mass panic, or the Chinese government and/or media were covering up the truth and passing on a cover story to what was really going on.