Jimmy Lai (L). Reportedly bags of poo in a tent at the Admiralty Protest site (R)
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai has reportedly been pelted with bags filled with poop and animal organs while hanging out at a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest site.
According to posts on the United Social Press Facebook page, the outspoken anti-Beijing media mogul was covered in filth in Admiralty after being jumped by three men employing what seems to be the tactic of choice for the anti-Occupy lot. Witnesses say Lai was splattered on his face and his body but not injured.
Dozens of police officers moved in to form a human chain, blocking off access to the tent in Lai was in. Two of the men are said to have been taken away by police, while the third was apparently sent to receive medical attention because of a forehead injury.
We’re assuming he didn’t go to one of the makeshift Occupy medical tents, although those little angels in waiting probably would have patched him up anyway.
Lai, who is quoted (on Wikipedia) as saying, “If you have fewer friends, you have more readers”, is probably looking forward to selling a bunch more papers.
Jimmy Lai photo: Yu-Cheng Hsiao via Flickr
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