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Crime Hong Kong Noir
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:59 AM
The really strange piece of information in this report of a crime that happened some (but not too many) years ago?
The final appeal has begun in Hong Kong of a US woman convicted for the murder of her banker husband in 2003 after lacing his strawberry milkshake. Nancy Kissel, 45, was jailed for life for putting sedatives in her husband Robert's drink and bludgeoning him to death with an ornament. ...Mrs Kissel lost an appeal in 2008 based on her claim that she acted in self defence as her husband was threatening her with a baseball bat. Her lawyers had argued that the judge had defined the concept of self-defence too narrowly.But at the trial prosecutors had argued that she planned the murder due to her uncontrolled passion for a new lover, a TV repairman in the US, deliberately creating an atmosphere of violence in the home.
Isn't the profession of repairing TV sets endangered or extinct? Didn't this creature evolve into the cable guy? To fall in love with an American TV repairman is like falling in love with a Siberian tiger.
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My toshiba big screen broke on the last day of the warranty. The TV repairman will be arriving this afternoon with a new powerboard. Can't wait for the intrigue.
2
Now that is funny, though I think for complete parallel construction you mean the extinct Smilodon or Sabre Tooth Tiger. No?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon
3
You'd think so, Charles, but the new plasma and LCD screens we all love and covet have extremely short lifespans compared to their tubular forebears. CNET suggests that the average lifespan of some models is 3 years, and the warranties are often less than half that. Between computer monitors and big-screen TVs, it may be one of the few growth sectors in the US job market!
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While some have gone out of business, big screens keep my local TV guy alive. He also fixes microwaves.
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My plasma took a dump just before Christmas after 5 years of service. I was so cheap to replace with a superior model, we got one that night.
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