Kung Pao Pow!!!

Way to Die #365

Kung Pao Pow!!!

Name of the death is a pun on "kung pao" and "pow"

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"If Chung had any sense, he would've remembered the Ancient Chinese proverb: 'Have greedy heart, lose... Greedy head.'"

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Date

May 10, 2003

Location

Tianjin, China

Episode this death was featured in

The One About Dumb People Dying

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Plot[]

With Mainland China's population being estimated at 1.4 billion people, the deceased end up at a mandatory crematorium run by Chung Lee, who is also a corrupt thief and grave robber. He would strip a dead body of anything of valuable and then put them in the burning chamber so they can be burned into ashes. His next deceased person was a man with the surname of "Wang", who died of what was believed to be a lightning strike two days earlier, as his burn wound near his heart appears to resemble one. Chung relieved Wang's body of his gold-capped teeth, and set the body in the burning chamber. Less than a minute after he does so, the chamber suddenly explodes, blasting the metal door off its hinges with enough force to decapitate Chung's head clean off his body.

It turns out that Wang didn't die from a lightning strike after all. but instead was killed after being struck by a piece of a weather rocket, launched in response to a month-long drought. The canister that was supposed to release rain-inducing silver iodide into the atmosphere failed to detonate, and had instead hurtled itself back down to Earth, finally landing and embedding deep in Wang's chest as he was merely walking by. Little did Chung know, the explosive was still embedded deep in Wang's chest; when the flames in the chamber activated, the canister finally heated up and detonated, sending the greedy grave robber to hell where he belongs.

Transcript[]

(View of China, [] is playing)

Narrator: China has a population of 1.4 billion...

(Switches to a cremation room, where a dead body is burned)

Narrator: Do you ever wonder what they do with their dead bodies? They burn them. In China, cremation is mandatory.

(Eel Effects is playing, Chung Lee takes another dead body in the movable bed)

Narrator: Chung Lee was the head of the state Crematorium. He was also a corrupt thief...

(Shows Chung stealing things of value from a dead body)

Narrator: First, he would strip a body of anything of value, then it was flame on.

(Cremation of the dead body turns to the ashes, [] is playing)

Peter Hartwick: Cremation process begins with industrial furnace or retour, which is capable of maintaining temperatures' highest: 2400°F (About 1316°C). The cremation process is designed to reduce human or animal remains to ash and bone fragments. The average time frame is normally around 100 pounds per hour.

(Shows another dead man, known only as Wang, [] is playing)

Narrator: Mr. Wang here was about to go "Asses to Ashes". Two days earlier, he had died in what was determined to be a "lightning strike", because of a telltale "burn wound" on his chest...

(Death Throughout History is playing, Chung inspects the inside of Wang's mouth)

Narrator: The hole in Wang's chest was far less interesting than the treasure in his mouth.

(Chung snatches gold teeth from Wang with a hammer and stake, [] is playing)

Narrator: But when Mr. Chung finally put the flames to dead man Wang...

(Chung hears the noise from the burning chamber)

Narrator: he got a mouthful...

(The chamber explodes, blasting the metal door off its hinges)

Narrator: and then some.

(The metal door flies and decapitating Chung cleanly, how that happened? Drama Purgatory is playing)

Narrator: An autopsy would've uncovered the real cause of Wang's death, and it was not lightning.

(Something from the sky strikes Wang's chest, Reverse Crime Investigation is playing)

Narrator: He was hit by a piece of a Weather Rocket that was launched in response to a month-long drought. The explosive canister that disperses rain-inducing Silver Iodide, failed to detonate. Instead, it came hurdling back down to Earth, and embedded itself in Wang's chest.

(The scene transitions back to the Crematorium, [] is playing)

Narrator: Unbeknownst to Chung, the explosive charge was now buried deep in Wang's chest.

(Shows an X-ray, displaying the explosion inside the chamber, the metal door being blown off, and Chung's decapitation)

Narrator: As soon as the Crematorium house flamed on,

(Creepy Death is playing)

Narrator: the detonator heated up, and exploded... The force of the blast blew the metal door off it's hinges, severing Chung's head.

(Recap, Impression Failure is playing)

Narrator: If Chung had any sense, he would've remembered the Ancient Chinese proverb:

(Chung snatches gold teeth from Wang with a hammer and stake)

Narrator: "Have greedy heart,

(The burning chamber explodes, blasting the metal door off its hinges, flying and decapitating Chung cleanly; view of Chung's head, slightly blackened)

Narrator: lose... Greedy head."

Interviewees[]

Michael Lehr - Chung (lead: intended victim)
Peter Hart-wick - Crematory Operator

Trivia[]

Also called "Exploding Wang" on the Spike TV website.
"火葬場" means crematorium.
This was based on a real-life death of the person whose name is remain anonymous in China who died after a weather rocket struck his chest. Unlike the segment, no one died when his corpse is exploded while it was about to be burned in crematorium.
This is one of the three deaths that ends with three exclamation points. The other two are Her Own Damn Fault!!! and Dough!!!.
This is one of the two deaths that use illustrated plans to explain a situation, in this case why Wang died. The other one is Fatally Gourd.
Chung's death is similar to that of Disco Bear's death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episode: "Ipso Fatso".
Wang's death is similar to that of Flaky's death in Happy Tree Friends TV series episode: "Dunce Upon a Time", Mike and Jade's death in Tongue Tied, and Ting's death in Golden Die-angle.

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