- WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT
- A man in China caught a rat stealing his bread and tied its limbs onto a panel
- He forced the animal to drink strong alcohol before setting it on fire
- The man also claimed rats are vermin and deserved to be punished
A man in south-west China tortured a tiny rat after catching it stealing his bread.
Mr Shi tied up the rodent and force-fed it with a bottle of Baijiu, a super-strong alcoholic drink.
The rat was then burnt to death as its limbs got bound to a plastic mesh board.
Mr Shi, from Maguan, Yunnan Province, apparently filmed the cruel punishment as he carried it out on the rat on November 20.
According to the video released by Pear Video, the rat had its four limbs strapped onto a mesh panel.
The man then forced the rat to drink up a bottle of Baijiu, an alcoholic beverage made from rice whose alcohol content is usually around 50 per cent.
Mr Shi ties the rodent onto a mesh panel after catching it stealing food at his home (left). He then forces the animal to drink a bottle of rice wine that has 52 per cent alcohol content (right)
Mr Shi (left) said in the video that rats are vermin and everyone should caught them and beat them. He showed the frightened rat the piece of bread it had allegedly eaten from (right)
‘Look at you, not leaving a drop of wine to me, drink it up!’ Mr Shi yelled.
He then showed the rat a piece of bread.
The rat twitched its body as the man questioned it with the bread.
‘See how you ate the bread! Now I see how you like it with a bit of fire!’
Mr Shi lit the rat on fire and let it burnt to death.
He then recorded a selfie video explaining that the incident and stated that ‘rats are vermin that everyone catch them and beat them’.
Soaked with the rice wine, the rat twitched its body and desperate for an escape (left). But Mr Shi set it on fire and left it burnt to death (right)