Two teenagers who peed in a hotpot at a restaurant chain in China, filmed it and posted the video online have now been ordered to pay more than £227k in compensation by a Chinese court.
The video went viral earlier this year, which disgustingly shows the two teenagers standing on a restaurant table and urinating into a hotpot, and has resurfaced this month following the court ruling.
Popular in China, hotpot restaurants have a pot of hot broth in the middle of each individual table and allow customers to cook food themselves, including meat and vegetables.
The two 17-year-olds, whose surnames are Wu and Tang, took turns to stand on the table and pee into the hot both at a China’s biggest hotpot chain called Haidilao in the city of Shanghai. The incident happened on 24th February.
There was no suggestion that anyone ate the hotpot, but Haidilao chose to offer compensation to more than 4,000 of diners who ate at the Shanghai restaurant in the days after. They reportedly offered the customers a full refund and a cash payment of 10 times the bill.
On 14th March, the restaurant chain filed a civil lawsuit against the two teenagers and their parents seeking 23 million yuan (£2.3 million) in damages due to the money lost, the South China Morning Post reveals.
Shanghai’s Huangpu District People’s Court ruled that the teenagers and their parents must pay 2.2 million yuan (£227k) on 12th September. This includes 130,000 yuan (£13k) for damaged utensils and cleaning fees, 2 million yuan (£206k) for operational and reputational losses, and 70,000 yuan (£7k) for legal expenses.
The court said the act was “intentional” and the teenagers were “fully aware” of what they were doing and the negative impact it would have. They called it an “act of insult” which “caused strong discomfort among the public” and also said the teenagers’ parents “failed to fulfil their duty of guardianship”.
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