If You Want To Stop Your Husband From Using The Internet, Chopping Off His Hand Seems A Little Extreme
from the next-time-maybe-pull-the-plug dept
We've certainly heard of family members growing frustrated over the amount of time a spouse or a child was spending on the internet, but you have to admit that it's on the fairly extreme side of the spectrum of responses to deal with this by chopping off the person's hand. However, according to some news reports, that's exactly what one woman in China did to her husband after she felt he wasn't paying enough attention to her. As he sat at the computer in an internet cafe she chopped off his hand. Oddly (and somewhat unbelievably) the guy claims he only noticed when the pointer on the screen stopped moving and he felt a numbness in his hand that had been on the mouse (and then he noticed the blood). It's not clear how he didn't notice his hand being chopped off -- or even how it was chopped off. So, perhaps the story is simply urban legend, but there appear to be a fair number of news organizations reporting that same story. We're hoping that at least one bothered to fact check to find out that it really happened.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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According to airline officials, Garuda is very angry, which caused the airline to cancel several flights. The goats were sacrificed on the runway of Kathmandu Airport, the country's only international airport. The number of Hindu priests who build the airplane's engines have been increased from four to six.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/textoyx4/20070905
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wtf?
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Why would techdirt report on an obviously story?
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Maybe in China but if this was in the US I'd say he got off easy.
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Isn't this artcile just further perpetuating the possible myth?
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It's possible....
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Hand chopped off...
and there goes dorpass again, off-topic as ever. do you just sit on the homepage and hit refresh?
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I mean it's not like he only posted "First" or anything, he didn't even criticize anyone here either!
Cut him some slack already?
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So we finally have in writing the Techdirt process for checking out stories.
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women...
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If you want to believe slashdot, then the answer to your question is "absolutely yes!" : http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/0220212
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My girlfreind -
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I'd believe he didn't notice...
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