Police in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, recently arrested three men who cheated restaurants of money after putting dead flies in their food.

Wu, Wang and Zheng, all in their 20s and jobless, extorted money from three restaurants using this modus operandi, threatening to smash the eatery if they are not compensated.

They were arrested after a restaurant owner spotted them putting a fly in their food and phoned the police.

(Nanjing Morning Post)