Boy Sold to Restaurant as Dog Meat

[jazz lady (Premo)]

HANOI - Vietnamese drug addicts kidnapped a mute teenager, bundled him in a sack and sold him to a dog-meat eatery as a stray canine, state media said on Saturday.

The Gia Dinh Xa Hoi (Family and Society) newspaper said the two addicts grabbed the homeless 13-year-old from a busy market in Halong city.

Halong, around 90 miles from the capital, Hanoi, attracts hordes of tourists to its spectacular bay and rock formations, a United Nations heritage site.

The kidnappers tied up the boy, bundled him into a sack and sold him to the restaurant for $19, the newspaper said.

The restaurateur, shocked to find the boy, fed him and released him.

Police were investigating the case but had made no arrests, said the newspaper, mouthpiece of the state Population, Family and Children Committee.

Dog meat is a delicacy in parts of China and in some other Asian countries such as Korea, Cambodia, Indonesia and Laos. In Vietnam, eating specifically farmed breeds is believed to bring health benefits and is seen as auspicious.

Early in November, Thai police rescued more than 800 dogs from smugglers who were taking the animals to Vietnam to sell for meat.

[Penn]

Just another example of different cultures.
In S. Korea, it's the same way; dogmeat, catmeat, pigmeat, a stray child or two; heck you never knew what you were eating in a downtown restaurant.
The way they smothered it in garlic, soy sauce, red-pepper juices;
you had no way of telling from any of it.

These guys probably thought they were performing a favor, ridding their society of an outcast, deafmute kid.

You have to live in a country like this, to experience the thinking, the social mores, if you get what I'm saying.

[tlatchaw]

Before you get a swelled head, everybody, think of the way our society treats the disabled. Occasionally we're patient or understanding, but not often.

Have you stared at the shopping cart guy/gal at the local supermarket with Down's syndrome? Have you felt superior to the girl in the wheelchair that can't talk that hits a button to say "Welcome to Wal-Mart"? These are people with a harder time getting along than most, and yet they usually have a great attitude toward life.

I may by preaching to the choir here somewhat, but the way we treat the disabled in our society frequently makes me angry. Most times I swallow it or laugh it off and try not to take the situation too seriously. Still, it galls me. End of rant.

[Nosferatu]

Originally posted by tlatchaw
Before you get a swelled head, everybody, think of the way our society treats the disabled. Occasionally we're patient or understanding, but not often.

Have you stared at the shopping cart guy/gal at the local supermarket with Down's syndrome? Have you felt superior to the girl in the wheelchair that can't talk that hits a button to say "Welcome to Wal-Mart"? These are people with a harder time getting along than most, and yet they usually have a great attitude toward life.

I may by preaching to the choir here somewhat, but the way we treat the disabled in our society frequently makes me angry. Most times I swallow it or laugh it off and try not to take the situation too seriously. Still, it galls me. End of rant.

You're as big an idiot as the "SoMD Drama 2 1/2" gang.

Originally posted by tlatchaw
Before you get a swelled head, everybody, think of the way our society treats the disabled. Occasionally we're patient or understanding, but not often.

Have you stared at the shopping cart guy/gal at the local supermarket with Down's syndrome? Have you felt superior to the girl in the wheelchair that can't talk that hits a button to say "Welcome to Wal-Mart"? These are people with a harder time getting along than most, and yet they usually have a great attitude toward life.

I may by preaching to the choir here somewhat, but the way we treat the disabled in our society frequently makes me angry. Most times I swallow it or laugh it off and try not to take the situation too seriously. Still, it galls me. End of rant.

I don't get it. Are you saying we shouldn't snatch the handicapped girl from Wal Mart, bundle her up, and sell her as a dog to McDonalds?

[tlatchaw]

Originally posted by Nosferatu
You're as big an idiot as the "SoMD Drama 2 1/2" gang.

I'll send you a scathing reply when I understand what the heck you're talking about. What is a SoMD Drama 2 1/2?

[Ponytail]

Just one more reason not to order the "sum yun gai".

[Penn]

Originally posted by Ponytail
Just one more reason not to order the "sum yun gai".

There's no doubt that what those two low-lifes did over in Hanoi was distasteful, inhuman, and downright dispicable(using his best Daffy Duck imitation).

All I'm saying is, that even after all these years of international travel, living overseas among these people, many of us in this country fail to understand foreign culture.

Our western style values just don't work in many of these places;

In many of these countries, women are still second class citizens; take Saudi Arabia: I'm still not certain women are able to obtain a drivers license there yet. There was a measure sent before their parliament, or whatever they call their ruling body, to introduce this right to the female population this last spring, but I've not heard the outcome of that so far.

In Oriental Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, for example, the value of human life just dosen't measure up to what we think they ought to.
We sometimes laugh and are mildly surprised at what we hear these Asian folks put into a cooked(or not) entree and say "wow. you'd never catch me eating anything made with that!"

But, it's common over in these foreign nations.

Another ironically humorous sidelight is the fact that they've learned to "put up with us and our curious ways of thinking".

Heck, they are accomodating us, placating us. For what?

The Almighty Dollar, that's what.

But like Dennis Miller is fond of saying: Hey, that's my take, I could be wrong".