The journalistic cliche "dog bites man isn't news; man bites dog is" has finally come true. To wit:
A MAN in Central China's Hubei Province is believed to have saved his pet dog from death in the jaws of a strange dog by biting the attacker to death....
Whole story in the Shanghai Daily here.
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|7.5.07 @ 1:53PM|#
As a man who once downed a bowl of poshingtang in Korea, I think we can say that certain Asian cultures biting dogs is also not news.
|7.5.07 @ 1:59PM|#
What is really headline worthy is that the dog the man bit was uncooked.
|7.5.07 @ 1:59PM|#
Abdul,
True. But biting RAW dogs?
thoreau|7.5.07 @ 2:03PM|#
Now that Abdul, jimmy, and crimethink have won this thread, what else needs to be said?
M|7.5.07 @ 2:08PM|#
Watermelon on the side.
ed|7.5.07 @ 2:10PM|#
Arf?
|7.5.07 @ 2:23PM|#
thoreau | July 5, 2007, 2:03pm | #
Now that Abdul, jimmy, and crimethink have won this thread, what else needs to be said?
Dang. My first "win" on H&R and I have to split it three ways...takes all the fun out of it.
|7.5.07 @ 2:23PM|#
I'm waiting for the class-action canine lawsuit. This scourge must be erased from our society. For the puppies.
Abdul and crimethink|7.5.07 @ 2:28PM|#
Bite me.
|7.5.07 @ 2:29PM|#
Korean Sushi?
|7.5.07 @ 2:33PM|#
jimmydageek,
Aw, shucks. I win enough threads, you can take my share of this one.
|7.5.07 @ 3:14PM|#
I'll take my prize in an extra large helping of poshingtang, with a side of kim-chee.
|7.5.07 @ 3:24PM|#
Could we open a new restaurant on the Potomac called 'Poshingtang DC"?
arbiter elegantieae|7.5.07 @ 6:37PM|#
winners : thread :: canine fragments : watermelon patch
John|7.7.07 @ 12:49PM|#
You can see youtubed video coverage here, complete with animation and dramatic music.
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2207
rolex replica|6.19.10 @ 5:33AM|#
good post