China yam with human ‘fingernails’, 260 free meals, lottery win after lifetime of playing

In Guangdong, a man found a yam resembling a human hand with “fingernails”, a customer at a BYD dealership gained attention for enjoying 260 free meals over a year, and after a lifetime of playing, a Chinese man won 10 million yuan in the lottery.

Photo: SCMP composite/QQ.com/Douyin/Sohu A man in China has dug up a yam that looks exactly like a human hand, shocking many people online.

The man, who lives in Jieyang, in southern China’s Guangdong province, unearthed the oddly shaped vegetable on his farm.

It looks so much like a hand that it seems to even have nails and skin.

Chinese yams often grow into various shapes, as their appearance is greatly affected by external factors such as the soil and random rocks.

However, it is rare for such a vegetable to grow so vividly like a hand.

On March 17, the man’s son-in-law said someone offered 8,000 yuan (US$1,150) for the vegetable, but they rejected the offer.

Uncanny: The man holds up the oddly shaped vegetable he unearthed on his farm.

Photo: weixin “The photos really scared me,” said one online observer. “The yam looks like it has even had a manicure,” said another. “Nature is wonderful,” said a third.

A Chinese shop which sells BYD electric vehicles has banned a customer because he took too much advantage of its free benefits.

Recently, the owner of a BYD vehicle asked an influencer for help, saying he had been mistreated by a BYD shop in central China’s Anhui province.

The man said the shop refused to give him the free charging, car wash service and free meals that they promised him when selling the car in 2024.

The influencer went to the shop with the man, and staff told him that the man had visited them 260 times in the previous 12 months for free meals, even bringing his own meal box to take out the food.

The police were called after the man, who availed himself of a huge amount of free gifts from the car showroom, parked his car in the shop’s car park and refused to move it.

Photo: weixin The staff said it was normal to visit for free meals two or three times a month, and that they had offered the man an “abnormal amount of service”.

They said they could not meet the man’s high demands and other unreasonable requests, such as bringing his electric bike along with the car for charging.

Their conflict escalated when the man parked his car at the shop’s car park for new vehicles and refused to move away.

The staff said it is strictly forbidden to do so as there was a risk of damaging the

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