Hong Kong – A couple of teenagers who filmed urinating in a Hotpot broth have been ordered, along with their parents, to apologize and pay more than $ 300,000 in damages by a Chinese court, state media reported.
The 17 -year -old, whose last names are Wu and Tang, turned to stand on a table and urinate in the broth in a private dining room in a branch of the Haidilao chain restaurant in the city of Shanghai, according to a report on Friday by the state station CCTV News.
One of the peers then proceeded to publish a video that shows its “intentional” act of urination in social networks despite being “fully aware” of the potential negative impact, said the report on the ruling in the popular court of the Huangpu district of Shanghai.
After the position went viral, Haidilao apologized for the incident and assured customers that all utensils in the restaurant had been “destroyed and replaced.”
The company also reimbursed more than 4,000 affected dinner orders and gave each client additional compensation worth 10 times its original payment.
In March, two catering companies, probably linked to Haidilao, sued Tang, Wu and their parents, demanding a public apology and more than 23 million yuan ($ 3 million) in damages due to commercial losses, damage to reputation and other related costs.
The Court ruled that the complete reimbursements of Haidilao to the affected clients were reasonable and directly related to the incident that involved adolescents. But he said that compensation for ten times lacked legal causality and was considered a “voluntary commercial decision,” said CCTV News.
The sentence also ruled that adolescents and their parents should make apologies in the newspapers designated for catering companies, and parents would endure financial responsibility for their actions.
The court ruling shows that parents will risk “strong sanctions” if they do not supervise their children, said China, an influential magazine of the ruling communist party, he said in an editorial on Monday.
“This behavior can no longer be discarded as a simple joke,” he said, criticizing him as “extreme contempt for the rights of others and a shameless challenge for social norms.”
The authorities in China have been dealing with food security problems related to joke behaviors sometimes. In August, Hong Kong police arrested a 63 -year -old man for allegedly adding urine to soft drinks in supermarkets.
