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« on: March 16, 2004, 09:22:37 PM »
Is it just me or do you think the news is leaving out a lot of key elements from the story..

HONG KONG, China (Reuters) -- A 13-year-old Hong Kong boy flew into a rage and threatened his parents with a kitchen knife after his father pulled the plug on his computer game, police said on Monday.

"The boy's mother told police the boy was thrashing about with a knife. Nobody was charged," a police spokeswoman said.

The father managed to overpower the boy and no one was injured in the fracas early on Sunday morning, a local newspaper reported.

The father pulled the plug on the game at around midnight when the boy refused to stop playing and go to bed.

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Re: news from the web
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2004, 10:05:55 PM »
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Is it just me or do you think the news is leaving out a lot of key elements from the story..


HONG KONG, China (Reuters) -- A 13-year-old Hong Kong boy flew into a rage and threatened his parents with a kitchen knife after his father pulled the plug on his computer game, police said on Monday.

The father was in a drunken rage after he came home from school, hit the boy, and unplugged the family's computer.  The boy had just gotten home from his 6 day school week in a nation with a a suicide rate for adults and a suicide rate for minors because so many killed themselves around the eighties and nineties.  

"The boy's mother told police the boy was thrashing about with a knife. Nobody was charged," a police spokeswoman said. It is suspected that she was threatened by the father, but no proof can be found to support the statement.  The boy has gone missing but presumed uninjured due to the mother's testimony

The father managed to overpower the boy and no one was injured in the fracas early on Sunday morning, a local newspaper reported.

The father pulled the plug on the game at around midnight when the boy refused to stop playing and go to bed. He refused to go to bed because he was afraid his father would beat his mother again.

you mean something along those lines?
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2004, 10:06:59 PM »
sort of,

and heres another puzzler

LONDON (Reuters) - A scientist dubbed the "Safeway poisoner" and jailed for trying to poison his wife has been employed by a British university to lecture students on ethics, the institution said on Thursday.
Paul Agutter served seven years of a 12-year sentence for attempted murder after he laced his wife's gin and tonic with deadly nightshade in 1994 and then tried to cover his tracks by spiking drinks in a Safeway supermarket.

The University of Manchester said it followed "due process" in hiring Agutter to teach adult education classes, including a one-day course on "Therapeutic Cloning: Ethics and Science."

Medical ethics lecturer Piers Benn told Reuters criminal convictions and teaching ethics were not necessarily mutually exclusive.

"Normally people who get into moral philosophy do so because they care about making the world a better place or putting things right," said Benn, of Imperial College London.

"But I can't see any logical contradiction between being able to think about ethical questions and being able to do rather criminal acts."

Manchester University said it had not decided whether an April course on evolution taught by Agutter would go ahead.

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Re: news from the web
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2004, 06:41:12 PM »
Yeah, uh, there's a lot of stuff which could be left out of that one.  The press is mean like that... Yellow Journalism Blows hard.  We never know, though, it could just be a muckraker statement with all parts included, but the chances are slim.
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2004, 07:05:23 PM »
*sigh*

Its britain's leftie elite, they probably think it fits in with their politically correct portfolio.
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2004, 11:02:04 PM »
http://bangordailynews.com/editorialnews/articles/418988_031604nocrimeseeninm_skileymack.cfm


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Somerset County Lt. Pierre Boucher said the man took two pieces of wood, nailed them together in the form of a cross and placed them on his living-room floor. He attached a note saying "suicide" to the wood and then proceeded to nail one of his hands to the makeshift cross using a 14-penny nail and a hammer.

"When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911," said Boucher. It was unclear whether the man was seeking assistance for his injury or help in nailing his other hand down
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2004, 07:10:53 PM »
He is either a moron or someone left something out
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2004, 06:13:27 AM »
Screw it, I'm buying crayons and paper. I can imagineer my own adventures! Wheeee!

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Re: news from the web
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2004, 09:50:48 AM »
"Its just like a Big Mac, only they Call it Le Big Mac, but dont call ask for a quarter pounder with cheese"
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2004, 10:28:45 AM »
The best spin on that ever was Shaggy talking to Dopey and doing a spoof on the dialogue from that scene.

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Re: news from the web
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2004, 10:46:28 AM »
here's a fun one from japan

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040322p2a00m0dm014001c.html

is it indencent exposure?  or just him adjusting his fake leg.

Don't worry, that link is in english
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2004, 11:55:56 AM »
If he wore a skirt he wouldn't have this problem.
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2004, 11:58:43 AM »
instead he'd be picked up as a prostitute.

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Re: news from the web
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2004, 02:32:23 PM »
Wow.  Since when has flashing schoolgirls been illegal in Japan?  I thought it was a national pastime.
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Re: news from the web
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2004, 02:38:52 PM »
No no, EUOL.  The schoolgirls flash *you*.  And then they chase you. But only if they have tentacles or turn into robots.
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