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Man Really Does Bite Dog

Ronald Bailey | 7.5.2007 1:28 PM

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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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  1. Abdul   18 years ago

    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.

  2. jimmydageek   18 years ago

    What is really headline worthy is that the dog the man bit was uncooked.

  3. crimethink   18 years ago

    Abdul,

    True. But biting RAW dogs?

  4. thoreau   18 years ago

    Now that Abdul, jimmy, and crimethink have won this thread, what else needs to be said?

  5. M   18 years ago

    Watermelon on the side.

  6. ed   18 years ago

    Arf?

  7. jimmydageek   18 years ago

    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.

  8. Jamie Kelly   18 years ago

    I'm waiting for the class-action canine lawsuit. This scourge must be erased from our society. For the puppies.

  9. Abdul and crimethink   18 years ago

    Dang. My first "win" on H&R and I have to split it three ways...takes all the fun out of it.

    Bite me.

  10. joe   18 years ago

    Korean Sushi?

  11. crimethink   18 years ago

    jimmydageek,

    Aw, shucks. I win enough threads, you can take my share of this one.

  12. Abdul   18 years ago

    I'll take my prize in an extra large helping of poshingtang, with a side of kim-chee.

  13. fritzthecat   18 years ago

    Could we open a new restaurant on the Potomac called 'Poshingtang DC"?

  14. arbiter elegantieae   18 years ago

    winners : thread :: canine fragments : watermelon patch

  15. John   18 years ago

    You can see youtubed video coverage here, complete with animation and dramatic music.

    http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2207

  16. rolex replica   16 years ago

    good post

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