Is this a genuine story?

[pmv]

I wonder if I'm being fooled by a spoof, it's so bizarre (Chinese media does mistakenly pick up "The Onion" style news occasionally, right?). Potential plot device for a movie, either way.

Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman

A businessman and the hapless assassins he hired were all convicted of attempted murder.

metro.co.uk

 

[woolfe9998]

Best way to figure out if it's all made up is take a key name from the article, google it, then see if the story is reported elsewhere. I googled "Tan Youhui."

Sample result:

Hitman outsourced a murder to hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman

Six men — including five hitmen — have been charged in Chinese court last Thursday, after all attempted to subcontract the killing to another hitman.

www.usatoday.com

Since parodies aren't repeated in other news outlets, the story is real.

And yeah, it's a weird one all right.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I wonder if I'm being fooled by a spoof, it's so bizarre (Chinese media does mistakenly pick up "The Onion" style news occasionally, right?). Potential plot device for a movie, either way.

Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman

A businessman and the hapless assassins he hired were all convicted of attempted murder.

metro.co.uk

appears to be legit

Hesitant hitmen jailed over botched assassination in China

Five hitmen who tried to subcontract a job to one another see their cunning plan fall apart.

www.bbc.com

Man hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who snitched

A Chinese man's desire to eliminate a business rival landed him and five would-be hitmen in prison.

www.kfvs12.com

Hitman outsourced a murder to hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman

Six men — including five hitmen — have been charged in Chinese court last Thursday, after all attempted to subcontract the killing to another hitman.

www.usatoday.com

 

[pmv]

The dangers of sub-contracting and looking for the lowest bidder, I guess.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I wonder how much each offered the next one, because it could only get lower and lower I would figure?

EDIT: Nevermind, USAToday article describes it.

I just can't help but laugh and think of how someone was like "Fuck yeah I'll kill a man. I'll shank him for you for $100k"... *Goes home*.... "Aight, who do I know that is stupid enough to do this?"

 

[UNCjigga]

I’m surprised that the last subcontractor wasn’t some dude sipping chai in Bangalore.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I’m surprised that the last subcontractor wasn’t some dude sipping chai in Bangalore.

At the price of the last guy I figured the only type of person dumb enough would be the equivalent of a tweaker that would stab someone just to get another hit of heroin

 

[Paratus]

who knows another guy who knows this guy....

It’s guys all the way down.

 

[dawp]

if ya don't want to get caught it is better to do it yourself and not farm it out.

 

[shortylickens]

Snopes is usually the preferred site for check on news thats possibly BS.

And yes, regular news outlets DO repeat fake stories. But normally if they have any integrity they take it down and apologize.
For an example of the exact opposite behavior please visit www.FoxNews.com