I wrote a post back in January about a tragic death in Anhai that could have been avoided (with better safety practices and “common sense”) when a couple was trying to rig up their own home-grown helium balloon-filling machine. (And I’ve learned that there is a thriving market for them here: when school lets out each day, several helium balloon vendors, toy vendors, snack vendors, and so on are waiting to catch the kids’ attention with hopes that the adult picking them up will give in to the youngsters requests, squeals, whines, tantrums, or whatever.)

But here’s the latest fatality in the unbelievable cause department that we heard through the Anhai Local Grapevine News Network:

A little boy here had become sick and was prescribed a liquid medication to drink.

His parents left the boy and the medicine with his grandma with instructions to give him a spoonful at a certain time. He didn’t like taking it, and she wasn’t too adept at helping the medicine go down. He resisted, so she sort of pinned him down (gently, of course), pinched his nose–which still seems common practice here for medicines that uniformly taste horrible–but also forced his head back, and poured the spoonful down his throat.

He choked to death on it.