It's easy to understand Yan Linkun's frustration when he found out that he missed his flight to Shenzhen from China's Kunming Changshui Airport, Yunnan province. But he took his anger too far when he began smashing computers and banging on doors, a public display of outrage that no bystander attempted to restrain.
The four-minute video, captured last Tuesday morning, shows Yan standing by a check-in counter as an airport employee informs him that he missed his flight. Yan, who belongs to a political advisory body in Qujing, responds with rage. He destroys two computers and a telephone -- and then dismantles a free-standing poster, using its metal frame to attempt to smash the flight gate door. A surveillance video, included below, captured the man's antics. Once the video became public, the mining company suspended Yan, and the political advisory body threatened punishment, The Guardian reported.
Yan, his wife and two 10-year-old sons, were originally scheduled to take an 11:05 a.m. flight to Shenzhen on Tuesday, but the family arrived after the boarding gate had closed.
Even when Yan changed the flight to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, the family was still late, and airport officials told them they couldn't board. Upon finding this out, Yan and his wife shouted at staff -- and Yan used a keyboard to smash computers at the gate, over and over again, Shanghai Daily reported.
Yan said he was angry because he was trying to get his sons to school on time, but following his outburst, he was sorry for his actions.
"I failed to be a qualified political adviser as well as a good father," he told Shanghai Daily.
Yan wrote an apology to Wang Jinsheng, the airport's deputy manager, saying: "My irrational actions and rudeness have caused some losses to the airport as well as bad effects to the public, so I sincerely apologize to the airport and public. I am willing to compensate," according to Shanghai Daily.
Airport police said they were still investigating to find out whether or not Yan faces criminal charges, Shanghai Daily reported.
This wasn't the only recent incident where a Chinese official has committed irresponsible acts, according to The Guardian.
The Communist party secretary of a district bureau in Nanyang City, Henan province, drove a government car into a cinema on Sunday morning and injured 26 people, the state news agency Xinhua reported. Liu Xianchong, the official responsible for the incident, confused the accelerator in his government-issued vehicle for the brake, Xinhua reported. Local police also told Xinhua that Lie had been off work for seven months because of a cerebral infarction, a type of stroke. Liu has been detained.
Also last week, party disciplinary authorities said a former official in Shaanxi province who allegedly committed "serious wrongdoing" and "suspected crimes" had been expelled from the party, according to The Guardian. The official, Yang Dacai, became notorious last August after he was photographed smiling at the scene of a road accident that claimed the lives of 36 people.
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