Angry Chinese woman sets 400 phones on fire

It's a crazy, mixed-up world we live in. If we aren't worrying about global warming or peace in the middle east, we have to be on the lookout for scorned women setting large quantities of mobile devices on fire. A certain Mrs. Wang is guilty of that latter offense. The 37-year-old Chinese woman wasn't particularly stoked about her husband walking out on their marriage, so she did the only reasonable thing that presented itself: rounded up the entire stock of more than 400 phones the couple had at their joint-owned cellphone shop, and set the entire lot ablaze -- inside her home. The collection was valued at roughly 300,000 yuan, about $42,000 US. You might want to take this time to inform your significant other how sane, rational and sexy he or she is, while simultaneously removing all lighter fluid from your home. No gadget is safe!

[chris @ Mar 8th 2008 9:32PM]

nothing bring out the flavor of a steak like burnt sim cards

[BatteryAcid @ Mar 8th 2008 9:47PM]

mmmm...

[madchinamando @ Mar 9th 2008 12:44AM]

@ Jesus_Christ
You idiot we asians can't say L's not r's
so youl a leally leally wlong

[Luke D @ Mar 9th 2008 12:52AM]

madchinamando, you might wanna re-read what you typed.

[mushrooshi @ Mar 9th 2008 3:41AM]

I know that in Japanese (I am taking it), they have a don't seem to have a exact L or R sound, but rather a mix of the two.

Plus it would be more just replacing all the L and R with R, or will all Ls. but not both.

So "Rollercoaster" COULD be "Lollelcoastel" or "Rorrercoaster". But not "Lorrelcoastel"

[kuro @ Mar 9th 2008 4:38AM]

wow, someone knows japanese here!

I'm not very good with romaji, but I think:
rollercoaster=ローラーコースター=ro-ra-ko-suta

I suppose most japanese lessons dont cover japanese gangsuta rap?

[Shaun @ Mar 9th 2008 7:12AM]

madchinamando,
"You idiot we asians can't say L's not r's".
No, no. It's not us Asians, it's just you Chinese.

And for those of you still scratching your heads, not all Asians are Chinese.

[CraigJ @ Mar 9th 2008 10:50AM]

"not all Asians are Chinese" True. the other half are Japanese. Source: Hank Hill

[vcx @ Mar 9th 2008 4:12PM]

I know a guy named "Long Wang". His wife loves him.

[wookee88 @ Mar 9th 2008 9:04PM]

@Shaun

"No, no. It's not us Asians, it's just you Chinese."
And not us Chinese, just mainly Cantonese

[Hal @ Mar 8th 2008 11:22PM]

Wow. My ex-girlfriend dropped my iPhone on the concrete porch when we broke up, putting a nice big crack in the screen. That sucked, but maybe I got off easy.

[Chowdder @ Mar 8th 2008 9:36PM]

Mr. Wang must be very disappointed

[Asian Fetish @ Mar 8th 2008 10:05PM]

Not all Asian woman love you long time.

[m @ Mar 8th 2008 10:41PM]

Yes, I imagine Mr. Wang found it emasculating.

In other news, a friend of mine had a student named Harry Wang. I guess nobody ever gave his parents a slang dictionary.

[Aguiluz @ Mar 8th 2008 10:18PM]

I don't use this but...

She's such a dumb*** by doing that. No, I am not sorry for the phones but by dong that they will break their relationship apart even more. Rage leads to misunderstanding, it leads to hate and it is not good.

[rant mode off]

[Sam @ Mar 8th 2008 10:31PM]

Well you know, sometimes you're not looking for reconciliation. Sometimes you just want to watch that sucker burn. She probably knew exactly what she was doing...hit 'em where it hurts.

[Don Wilson @ Mar 8th 2008 10:32PM]

Nice job Mr. Wang. Run as fast as you can!

[bi0hazard @ Mar 9th 2008 12:25AM]

Ha! She lost her wang

[BatteryAcid @ Mar 9th 2008 12:29AM]

@ Sam
I'm sure no mater where she hits Mr.Wang it's gonna hurt.

[Mobius_1 @ Mar 9th 2008 1:38AM]

He must be quite glad he is not in the store when she went into her rage

[albi @ Mar 8th 2008 9:43PM]

great Mar 8th news

[Dahk @ Mar 8th 2008 11:23PM]

... us Canadians over in Toronto will take any news we can get at this moment.

... FRICKIN' 40 CM OF FRICKIN' SNOW.

/short rant for super frustrated shoveller without a snowblower.

[albi @ Mar 8th 2008 11:36PM]

here in MTL; dame pizza place won't even deliver their pizza so the street condition is bad

[Mark @ Mar 8th 2008 11:56PM]

Here in Toronto friend of mine and I made over 100$ each shoveling snow :D

[mark lee @ Mar 9th 2008 12:48AM]

This is highly usual...

Most Chinese women I know would sell those phones and go buy a bunch of LV, Prada, or Chanel stuffs.

[mark lee @ Mar 9th 2008 12:50AM]

Unusual, I meant.

[Mark @ Mar 9th 2008 12:58AM]

Us Canadians in Moncton are having a lovely ice storm with up to 70mm of freezing rain! The power lines are starting to get kind of saggy.

The streets are turning into skating rinks.

I hope the power doesn't go out.

[hobbes @ Mar 9th 2008 1:20AM]

And we in Vancouver enjoyed a pleasantly mild mostly sunny day. Cheers!

[Xbox360kid @ Mar 9th 2008 3:35AM]

@Sam they joint own the shop so she's messing up herself too.That was very idiotic she destroyed something she co-owned and I'm sure he'll press charges.

[Chris Macdonald @ Mar 10th 2008 12:09AM]

just a shitload of rain over here in NS.... GOO CANADA WOO0T

[BatteryAcid @ Mar 8th 2008 9:46PM]

WTf, and why would they own 400 phones?

[The Mad Mule @ Mar 8th 2008 9:48PM]

You're kidding, right?

Read it again...

"...their joint-owned cellphone shop..."

[Jagannath A @ Mar 8th 2008 9:49PM]

"...more than 400 phones the couple had at their joint-owned cellphone shop..."

RTFA

[BatteryAcid @ Mar 8th 2008 10:07PM]

Ops, missed the shop part.

[ipodrulz @ Mar 8th 2008 10:15PM]

Cause those asians have so much technology! New one everyday!

[ethana2 @ Mar 9th 2008 3:23AM]

That's just the S.Koreans and Japanese. If you even /have/ a means of digital communication in China, consider yourself watche-- *cough* blessed...

[N30 G30 @ Mar 9th 2008 11:26AM]

they were trying to create a bootleg cell network of their own and were going to call it ATnT.

[dvdivx @ Mar 8th 2008 9:53PM]

Good thing they weren't running a daycare.

[Anthony @ Mar 8th 2008 9:54PM]

Mmm, BBQ.




The posters to follow us can decide which of our comments were creepier.

[Ayman @ Mar 8th 2008 9:56PM]

LOL ...

[Reader @ Mar 8th 2008 11:14PM]

Or the Congress! Oh wait, that'd be a good thing.

[Derek @ Mar 8th 2008 9:54PM]

Was she or any other Wangs hurt?

[Ayman @ Mar 8th 2008 9:57PM]

just her heart was stomped when her husband left her

[Ayman @ Mar 8th 2008 10:00PM]

P.s non of the 400 phones could be salvaged... and what about the warning about the battery...(do know throw in fire) possible explosion, now times that by 400

[Derek @ Mar 8th 2008 10:00PM]

"Times that"?

[Ayman @ Mar 8th 2008 10:01PM]

sorry (Do not throw) instead of "do know throw"

[Ayman @ Mar 8th 2008 10:04PM]

yeah... times that, since there are 400 phones with batteries (assuming) all go boom, (kinda like 4 of July)

[ryan @ Mar 8th 2008 10:31PM]

I believe derek meant that you should say "multiply that by 400." or perhaps "400 times at once." Though "times that by 400" could still be useful for another occasion, such as "People estimated in those times that by 400 AD the whole map would be filled in completely."

[anonymous @ Mar 9th 2008 3:01AM]

I don't know what you guys are talking about, "times that by" has been used by all my math teachers when talking about multiplying numbers. Example: "to solve 4(7) take the 4 and times that by 7 to solve the problem"

[Ayman @ Mar 9th 2008 7:44AM]

aren't we a bit off topic