Ah Cheung from the Wang Kee Sports Ground on Tung Chow Street is an eighty-seat Sham Shui Po institution. Eleven-year-old kid, sports ground, thirty-eight degrees. The boy ran around outside and nobody stopped it until it was too late. School sports day, the kind of event where the parents cheer and the kids cook. The coroner will ask hard questions. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department will put out a statement.

What makes this worse is the civil service story landing on the same Sunday. Elite officers leaving at a pace one-third higher than last year. The SCMP clocked the surge. You can read a lot into one statistic: less institutional memory, shorter chains of command, fewer people who remember why the protocols exist. The kid died on a Sunday at a government sports ground. The department managing those grounds is short-staffed. That is not a cause-and-effect you can prove. But it is the kind of coincidence that sits badly over a bowl of noodles.