NationStates Jolt Archive


You'd think this sort of stuff happened only in America

Dragons Bay
01-09-2005, 02:31
But they don't. Last Thursday in Hong Kong a seven year-old boy was attacked by members of the Triad and received seven serious knife injuries. The boy is recovering now, and after public outrcy and a week of intensive investigation, the culprits have been arrested. It turns out that the stepmom may be responsible. She was worried that the household would not be able to support two children (the injured boy and her own), and the boys weren't able to get along with each other. So she hired two Triad killers to attack - with a definite intention to kill - the boy.

It's freaky, isn't it? And scary. And I'm quite appalled. You only heard this stuff from the Oprah Winfrey show, but now it's so close to home. :mad:
Kaitonia
01-09-2005, 02:36
Wow.

Just... Wow.

I would love to have something witty to make the blow of reading that seem softer, but I don't. This is just way too much.

Gang-members knifing a seven year old. Fuck. :eek:
Sdaeriji
01-09-2005, 02:38
She was concerned with being able to afford the second child so she hired the Chinese mob to kill him? Hiring any mob to kill someone isn't cheap. How does that follow?
Cpt_Cody
01-09-2005, 02:39
:rolleyes: <---At the obvious flamebait title

Because the Chinese would never do something to hurt each other, would they?

But on a related note, that's seriously f*cked-up. It's scary to think that such people really do populate this world.
Dragons Bay
01-09-2005, 02:41
She was concerned with being able to afford the second child so she hired the Chinese mob to kill him? Hiring any mob to kill someone isn't cheap. How does that follow?

I think it's more expensive raising a child for 20 years than it is to hire killers for a one-off job. Of course, the risk is that you don't know whether the killers will blackmail you in the long-term.

Anyway, dumb, cruel, b***** witch - if it's true.
Kryozerkia
01-09-2005, 02:41
She was concerned with being able to afford the second child so she hired the Chinese mob to kill him? Hiring any mob to kill someone isn't cheap. How does that follow?
Thinking long term, obvious.
Sdaeriji
01-09-2005, 02:43
I think it's more expensive raising a child for 20 years than it is to hire killers for a one-off job. Of course, the risk is that you don't know whether the killers will blackmail you in the long-term.

Anyway, dumb, cruel, b***** witch - if it's true.

Yeah. Hiring the mob is not a one-time business deal.
Kaitonia
01-09-2005, 02:43
She was concerned with being able to afford the second child so she hired the Chinese mob to kill him? Hiring any mob to kill someone isn't cheap. How does that follow?

Selling the kid's body/organs would probably make a killing in the black market.

Yeah, I don't actually know that. I figured it's as good a reason as any. :/
Darksbania
01-09-2005, 12:49
Knives too often fall into the hands of criminals.

We need some kind of registration system in place.
Drunk commies deleted
01-09-2005, 15:17
Why would you expect this sort of thing in the US rather than in China? Shit, I think we actually tend to protect our children more than the Chinese do.
Maniacal Me
01-09-2005, 16:56
Why would you expect this sort of thing in the US rather than in China? Shit, I think we actually tend to protect our children more than the Chinese do.
Are you trying to suggest that America isn't like the Westerns on TV?
Drunk commies deleted
01-09-2005, 17:00
Are you trying to suggest that America isn't like the Westerns on TV?
Of course I'm not saying that. We're exactly like the Westerns. Why just yesterday My boss and I had to kill a cattle rancher who tried to scatter our herd and drive us off his land. Still, how many kids get killed in the westerns?
Colodia
01-09-2005, 17:05
Are you trying to suggest that America isn't like the Westerns on TV?
...Do you know how much ignorance you show by saying that?

Shit...I didn't even think people payed attention to those...

(Seriously, what the hell is up with the flamebaiting thread title?)
Trilateral Commission
01-09-2005, 17:07
At least the US doesn't have to deal with female infanticide.

CHINESE PEOPLE KILL BABY GIRLS ROFL
Teh_pantless_hero
01-09-2005, 17:08
Well, it's creative, I will give them that, but if this was a case in America it would be.

"Car found in X River with body of 7-year old boy inside"
Feil
01-09-2005, 17:23
...Do you know how much ignorance you show by saying that?

Shit...I didn't even think people payed attention to those...

(Seriously, what the hell is up with the flamebaiting thread title?)

This is why you should always turn signatures to "on"....

Stop! Read! Think! Reply!
The seriousness of the above post is not guaranteed.
It's (probably) not personal, I just like to disagree.
Fiandra
01-09-2005, 17:27
You're right. Americans are so violent.
And the Chinese have a reputation for being do devoted to peace and human rights.

:rolleyes:
Jah Bootie
01-09-2005, 17:38
what would make you think this kind of stuff only happens in America. People are awful to each other and always have been. Ever read the OT bible, or any other old epics. There are models of human depravity in all of those that put the modern era to shame.
Maniacal Me
01-09-2005, 17:43
Of course I'm not saying that. We're exactly like the Westerns. Why just yesterday My boss and I had to kill a cattle rancher who tried to scatter our herd and drive us off his land. Still, how many kids get killed in the westerns?
An excellent point and thank you for reminding me of it. Even bad cowboys don't kill children, so where did he get this idea from?
Ah, of course. It is the East Coast that is in question and this is best represented by "Law & Order".
Drunk commies deleted
01-09-2005, 17:50
An excellent point and thank you for reminding me of it. Even bad cowboys don't kill children, so where did he get this idea from?
Ah, of course. It is the East Coast that is in question and this is best represented by "Law & Order".
But which one? KTU (kid toucher's unit), or criminal intent?
Maniacal Me
01-09-2005, 17:58
But which one? KTU (kid toucher's unit), or criminal intent?
IIRC, they already had a "kiddie attacked by mad gangsters" episode (it was 3AM, there was nothing else on) so probably KTU.
Criminal Intent would be if the kiddie had hired the gangsters to hit his babysitter's mother's sister so he could date her daughter as a cover for his father having an affair with an art gallery owner who specialised in paintings of frogs.
Avika
01-09-2005, 18:22
And I thought the Americans who go on the Jerry Springer show were messed up. I mean, on that show, a man married his very young daughter(she hasn't even hit puberty yet), spmebody's aunty-momma-sister-cousin being one person, the very definition of rednecks, nerd-examples, abusive people, people proud of raping their relatives being escorted off-stage by police, etc. Now I have a question: Which nation is without freaks? Can't be the US. We have Micheal Jackson and the woman who sued him for crying out loud. We even have that Sheehan lady who tends to express sorrow for her son's death only when not blaiming Bush for everything. She'd probably blame Bush for the topic's story.