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‘Wife-doting madman’: Chinese man sneaks into hospital disguised as doctor to dilute blood sample of drunk-driving wife detained
Oct
The actions of a pathologically devoted husband in China who sneaked into a hospital to dilute his wife’s blood sample in a bid to help her escape punishment for drunk driving, has stunned mainland social media.
The incident involves a couple from Dongguan in Guangdong province, southeastern China and stems from a road traffic stop by police on August 8, when officers saw a female, surnamed Huang, driving erratically.
Their suspicions were confirmed by a breathalyser test which revealed a blood alcohol concentration far exceeding the legal limit.
Huang was then taken to hospital for a blood test, but strangely, within a few hours of that test being done, the alcohol level in it had dropped to zero.
Puzzled police then launched an investigation which discovered that around 4:45am on the day his wife was stopped, her husband, surnamed Zhu, had sneaked into the hospital disguised as a doctor.
Surveillance footage captured him entering the hospital’s assessment centre laboratory shortly after 5am, where he diluted his wife’s blood sample with water.
A backup sample of Huang’s blood was retested and found to be well over the alcohol limit.
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Zhu has been detained by the public security authorities while his wife faces drunk driving charges.
The bizarre tale of devotion has stunned mainland social media.
One person quipped: “I could not stop laughing. He could have diluted it a bit less. How much water did he add to reach zero alcohol concentration? Too much.”
“He only needed to dilute it a bit. Diluting it too much was obviously suspicious,” said another.
A third person commented: “As a husband, he is qualified. As a secret agent, he is a failure.”
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“Such a wife-doting madman!” said another online observer.
Driving while drunk in China means you lose your licence for five years, and in extreme cases, it can lead to a custodial sentence.
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