After assaulting stewardess, millionaire mainland painter claims Cathay Pacific 'lacks Chinese morals'

By Ryan Kilpatrick, April 10, 2015

A famous painter from Chinese mainland has accused Cathay Pacific of "lacking Chinese morals" after he was fined HKD6,000 for assaulting a stewardess.

Lee Yuet-fun, 68, hurled a plastic cup at a flight attendant aboard his flight from Singapore to Hong Kong on December 10 last year.

Lee, who earns HKD1.27 million a month, complained that the fine was "too much." Lee claimed that he had requested another cup of water "several times" as meals were being served but insisted that he never threw the cup.

Instead, he said that he suffers from diabetes (with no medical note to substantiate this claim) and that, unable to take his medication without the water, his hand started shaking violently and the cup simply slipped out of his hands (and made its way across a fellow passenger and straight into the stewardess).

At Tsuen Wan Court, Lee insisted that responsibility for the incident lies not with him but with Hong Kong's flag carrier airline, which "lacks virtuous Chinese morals" since it "is not Chinese."

After the sentencing, Lee said that mainland airlines always care for the sick and elderly and he'd even "rather fly Malaysian Airlines" over Cathay Pacific, which was recently named the 'World's Best Airline' for the fourth time. Sick burn.

Showing his disdain for the presumably Western virtue of taking the high road, Lee also asked for his cup back.

[Image via Apple Daily]

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