I Might Have Taken Your Arm – Redneck Headlines

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Here are today's Redneck Headlines:
#1 - Jumbotron Love
#2 - Visit Your Parents... or Go To Jail
#3 - I Might Have Taken Your Arm

Jumbotron Love

An I.T. guy at a train station in northeast China was fixing a giant outdoor jumbo screen the other day . . . the one that shows ads to everyone walking by the station outside.

And when he finished, he decided to unwind . . . by watching PORN.  Only he forgot to disconnect the cable from his laptop to the JUMBO SCREEN.

So the adult movie he was watching was also shown to hundreds of people at the station . . . and he didn't realize it for TEN MINUTES.

As a bonus, the movie he was watching was called "The Forbidden Legend of Sex and Chopsticks".  It's some kind of arty soft-porn movie, not a straight up XXX flick.

It's not clear if he still has a job, but so far police haven't filed any charges against him. (NYPost)

Visit Your Parents... or Go To Jail

In December, the Chinese government passed a new law called the Law of Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Aged.  It went into effect on Monday.

Chinese people were already required by law to make sure their elderly parents' physical needs were met.

Now, it's ALSO illegal to ignore their elderly parents' need for COMPANIONSHIP.  Specifically, the law says that adults who don't live with their parents must, quote, "visit or greet them frequently."

That's right . . . starting Monday, if you don't visit your parents often enough in China, you're BREAKING the LAW.

The law doesn't say how often you need to visit, but if a parent feels like they're being neglected, they can FILE a COMPLAINT.  A mediator then decides if the law has been broken. (People's Daily Online)

I Might Have Taken Your Arm

Have you ever lost something important, like a wallet decided it was gone for good,  then suddenly it turned up?  This is better.  We think.

A doctor in Houston named Sam Axelrad worked as a surgeon during the Vietnam War.  And in 1966, he amputated the arm of a North Vietnamese soldier named Nguyen Quang Hung.

For some reason, Sam's colleagues decided to save the bones, reconstruct them, and give him the arm as a sort of souvenir before he left.  (???)

But when he got back to the U.S., he put them in a bag, put the bag in a closet, and forgot about them.

Then in 2011, he found the bag . . . and decided to track down the man who lost his arm. So he traveled to Vietnam last summer to look for him, but didn't have any luck.

But he DID run into a Vietnamese journalist, who ended up publishing an article about it.

Hung's brother-in-law happened to read that article, and contacted the newspaper about it.  And yesterday, Hung and his arm were finally reunited 47 years after the amputation. (Daily Mail)