We’ve previously noted here that people can be driven to violence if they have to put up with another’s snoring. Here’s another example, this time from China, where a student has recently been convicted of murdering his roommate because of chronic snoring.
This tragedy happened in Changchun, the capital of China’s Jilin province. The victim was Zhao Lin, a 23 year-old student at the Jilin Agricultural University. He was murdered in November 2009 by his room-mate, 24 year-old Guo Liwei. Zhao was stabbed twice by his assailant, in the chest and the back, resulting in his subsequent death in hospital. In hearings conducted at the Changchun Intermediate People’s Court, it was established that the main cause of tension between the two roommates had been Zhao’s snoring.
Guo was known to have complained widely about this, online and elsewhere. He had also posted a surreptitiously recorded video of his room-mate asleep on a university web-site, which had caused increased tensions between the two of them. These continued to escalate, with Guo committing his crime several months later.
This is terrible tragedy, which may at some points in its build-up have appeared almost comical. I can imagine a lot of students looked at that video of Zhao snoring, who may be looking at it in a different light now.
Now, obviously there were a lot of things which led to the eventual crime, and I don’t for one moment want to suggest that the snorer was at fault. One thing we can take from this, however, is that if you or a partner of you snores, it’s really quite a good idea to try and deal with the situation before what can be seen as funny can escalate. Look into a snoring aid before it’s too late.
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