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A furious Chinese father went perhaps a little too far when he stripped his truant son to his underwear, tied him to a tree in a busy street, and whipped him. The nine-year-old from Nanchong, in south-west China's Sichuan Province, had been caught out skipping school for several days without his parents' knowledge. The picture taker, Lin Gang, said that the temperature was only 5C when the all but naked child was tied to the tree and beaten.