Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Only in China

There is a weekly publication here called "Sh" and it contains news about what to do in Shanghai and where to go. There's a column in the magazine that recaps funny stories in the news -- now keep in mind that this is a Chinese publication so I don't attest to the veracity of these stories. Though they are worth a chuckle.

1. A man was out with his dog when it was attacked by another dog. The man ended up killing the offending dog. The report that he gave to the local police was that he choked the offending dog to death. BUT forensics show otherwise. It turns out that he bit the offending dog to death. Apparently, he has a penchant for biting during fights, which is well known among his friends and opponents. As you can imagine, this brings a considerable amount of shame to the family, who pleaded with the newspaper to not publish the biting part of the story.

2. A young man loves his girlfriend very much and wanted very desperately to buy her something nice and expensive to show his affection. However, the poor sap is unemployed and without much resources. So, he did what any love sick puppy would do. He took her bank card and, knowing the security code, he withdrew 50K RMB (approximately, US$7K) and bought her an expensive piece of jewlery. Of course, she found out about it, and now he is in need of a girlfriend as well as a job.

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