Sunday, April 22, 2012

News bites...

Yesterday, I blogged about how "dog bites man" isn't news and how even "man bites dog" is now ho-hum. But "man eats dog" -- one particular man -- made the headlines.

Well, there's now a story about "woman bites woman"! It seems that a woman motorist in a San Francisco neighbourhood was waiting to take the place of a car that was moving out of a parking spot. But, in a flash, another woman driver swooped into that just-vacated space ("potong jalan", we say in Singlish; these ugly incidents often happen here too).

That's when the woman bit woman incident happened. Here's the San Francisco CBS Local's story, with a video clip too:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/04/19/woman-arrested-in-biting-attack-over-parking-space-in-sf-hunters-point/

Today's Sunday Times also carried the story, with these additional "news bites"...

The attacker was arrested on suspicion of assault with a "deadly weapon", in this case, her teeth, local police said.

"I don't know why she would bite me," said the victim. "I don't understand why anyone would bite anybody unless you were hungry, and I don't really taste that good. I hope not." [I just love her quote!!]

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Ok, now that we have a case of woman bites woman, has there been any "man bites man" incidents? But of course! There may be others but many people will recall this famous one, as recounted by History.com:

On June 28, 1997, Mike Tyson bites Evander Holyfield’s ear in the third round of their heavyweight rematch. The attack led to his disqualification from the match and suspension from boxing, and was the strangest chapter yet in the champion’s roller-coaster career.


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Still on bites, you may or may not find this link called "Daily Singapore News... Stay Updated With Bite-size News Summary" useful. You be your own judge...

http://dailysingapore.com/  

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