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!

[Bob @ Mar 8th 2008 11:50PM]

Cellphone smoke,
don't breathe this

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Mar 9th 2008 4:56AM]

Sure there is at least one... well a crow bar..

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=crowbar

[Beau @ Mar 8th 2008 10:13PM]

haha priceless.
The picture totally matches the article as well :-)

[fischju @ Mar 8th 2008 10:16PM]

A women scorned, a phone scorched

[Aguiluz @ Mar 8th 2008 10:21PM]

"A women scorned, a phone scorched"

Hm... it's better if "phones scorched."

It's plural form :) [no, I'm NOT flaming!]

[derX @ Mar 9th 2008 1:02AM]

....when checking over his post, you decided to comment on his comment's lack of parallel structure rather than the more obvious 'a' in reference to 'women', the latter being plural matched with a singular article.

Interesting.

...but you did it with a :), how could anyone be upset?

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@fischju, Comment's priceless xDD

[Dyranios @ Mar 8th 2008 10:19PM]

Probably about $500 worth of damage done. heyooooooooo!

[Richard Lai @ Mar 8th 2008 11:31PM]

"The collection was valued at roughly 300,000 yuan, about $42,000 US."

Otherwise it would be funny if they had not mentioned this in the article.

[Abuzar @ Mar 8th 2008 10:23PM]

*sigh*

At least the lack of peace in the middle east and global warming are on video.

Now if she recorded THIS we would be in business.

[Christian Torkelson @ Mar 8th 2008 10:42PM]

I suppose saving one of the phones to record the spectacle with would have defeated the symbolic gesture... apparently.

[Joseph @ Mar 8th 2008 10:36PM]

Once again a very enjoyable post. Thanks Paul.

[Brian @ Mar 8th 2008 10:53PM]

It would have been so much better if she had sold all of the phones for cheap, waited for Mr. Wang to ask about the phones, whip out the money and burn it right in front of him (keeping a little for herself).

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

Rich people are crazy and always want to waste money. Even asian people can be that way too, not just american. Why doesn't she just give it away to someone poor, someone like me, a poor college student.. haha..

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[bi0hazard @ Mar 9th 2008 12:27AM]

A true asian wouldn't have wasted that much money. a true asian would have stolen the phones and sold them on the black market.

[wootman @ Mar 8th 2008 11:15PM]

what if it was the meizu m8s that were burned?
would be a totally different article. :P

[w00t @ Mar 9th 2008 5:49AM]

So that's why they've not released the m8 yet!
A crazy Wang has burned them all :)

[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.

[Stasmi @ Mar 8th 2008 11:30PM]

Hell hath no fury like a Wang scorned...

[adobochicken @ Mar 8th 2008 11:38PM]

but how much of those cellphone r pirated knock-offs

[derX @ Mar 9th 2008 1:04AM]

If you look closely at the ashes, you'll see labels of the iFone, Motorola RAYZR, and the Nokla n95.

[Jeff @ Mar 9th 2008 2:15PM]

hahah Nokla.

[Sauerkraut @ Mar 8th 2008 11:41PM]

love these stories

[CaptCaveman @ Mar 8th 2008 11:46PM]

Sigh, poor Mr. Wang. I know the feeling. I also have a habit of picking the crazy ones also. And they always want to break your stuff to show you how much they care...

[m @ Mar 9th 2008 1:48AM]

Good news-- I hear Mrs. Wang is single. Maybe you can get her number, give her a call... once she gets a new phone, anyway.

[CaptCaveman @ Mar 10th 2008 2:31AM]

Hmm, I am attracted to Asian women...

[Steffen Jobbs @ Mar 8th 2008 11:59PM]

Mr. Wang's whang couldn't get a proper connection to Mrs. Wang.

[cheddarben @ Mar 9th 2008 12:35AM]

I sure hope he had the phone insurance plan.

[AlphaTeam @ Mar 9th 2008 1:02AM]

Darn, she should have given them out for free!

[Richard @ Mar 9th 2008 3:28AM]

Can you imagine the guy trying to claim the warranty on that lot

Nokia Rep: Ok, Mr Wang you wish to claim warranty on 400 mobile telephones that had simultaneous critical battery failure ?
Mr Wang "Yeah, you wucky I don't sue you for all the damage to my home, so bad my wife leave me."

[Jeff @ Mar 9th 2008 2:14PM]

I wonder, if it had been a black couple, if you'd be saying "damn straight, honkey, and you best be glad i aint suing ya'll for dis shiznit! even my bitch-ho of a shorty lef me fo dis!"

...just curious.

...but it's okay when it's asians, huh.

[Armoured @ Mar 9th 2008 4:43AM]

BITCH!!!!!!

[Fraser JK @ Mar 9th 2008 6:33AM]

Sometimes, it's easier to burn than to learn!

[ReggieXuk @ Mar 9th 2008 6:46AM]

Post about Asians and now everyones a comedian ¬_¬

[Velik @ Mar 9th 2008 9:16AM]

We don't need no water, let the Mother Fucker Burn.

Burn Mother Fucker..... BURN!!!! la la la

[phil @ Mar 9th 2008 12:43PM]

one of my great great..great grandmother did the same, but with an entire stock of toulouse lautrec's paintings, coz she didnt like him and thought he was gross. toulouse was her son's best friend. the value of the stock is priceless though haha. or at least u would count it in millions of $$$

[karl @ Mar 9th 2008 1:25PM]

best headline of my life.

[Jeff @ Mar 9th 2008 2:11PM]

those ashes are such a wannabe iPhone.

[channy @ Mar 9th 2008 4:42PM]

what a wang...

[skulldriveshaft @ Mar 11th 2008 2:46AM]

so that's how they recycle old cell phones in china.