Simon Ledger, 34, told Britain's The Sun newspaper that he and his band were performing the 1970s classic at the Driftwood Beach Bar on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England.
Everybody likes Kung Fu Fighting, (the song), that is, everyone except for an Asian man in a concert who got offended and flicked off Simon Ledger and his band at the Driftwood Beach Bar on the Island of Wight off the coast of England. Apparently the man of Chinese descent was so mad that he made a complaint to the police on racism charges for hearing the song “Kung Fu Fighting.”
According to Ledger, “We were performing Kung Fu Fighting, as we do during all our sets. People of all races loved it. Chinese people have never been offended by it before.” The singer reports that they had never even seen the Asian person before starting the concert, yet the heartbroken fan claimed he was “subject to racial abuse.”
Ledger says that he then got a phone call from police that they wanted to meet with him (he got this call while eating at a Chinese restaurant—ironically), and he was promptly arrested by police. He was then released after his arrested, to be questioned at a further date. According to a Hampshire Constabulary spokesman, “An investigation into this allegation is continuing to establish the full circumstances surrounding what happened.”
I appreciate such videos, but I rarely truly "get it."
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Mon 2 May, 2011 08:58 am
@edgarblythe,
I haven't looked at that article since I posted, but something like 3000 euros a day..
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Sat 7 May, 2011 07:07 am
ELKO, Nev. — A rescued Canadian woman who survived for seven weeks on water and trail mix after getting stranded in a remote part of Nevada was recovering Saturday as a search for her still-missing husband moved forward.
Hunters on Friday spotted the van of Albert and Rita Chretien on a logging road in Elko County in northeastern Nevada, according to a statement by the Baker City, Ore., police, who had searched for the couple.
The Chretiens disappeared in late March during a trip to Las Vegas.
The 56-year-old woman told her son, Raymond Chretien, that her 59-year-old husband set off for help on foot a few days after their van got stuck in mud and that was the last she saw of him.
"We're stunned," Raymond Chretien told The (Portland) Oregonian in a telephone interview. "We haven't fully digested it. This is a miracle."
Officer Dan Moskaluk, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, said the woman was at an Idaho hospital and reportedly walking around.
"Her family said she lived off water and small amounts of trail mix," losing 20-30 pounds during the ordeal, Moskaluk told The Associated Press.
The Elko County Sheriff's office said it was coordinating a search for the Chretien.
The couple left their Penticton, British Columbia, home on March 19, and reached Baker City in eastern Oregon that afternoon, where they were captured on a store's surveillance camera.
Raymond Chretien told The Oregonian they made it to Nevada later that day, sightseeing on back roads when their van got stuck in mud. Three days later, Albert Chretien set out on foot.
"They got turned around off the main road that they should have been on," Moskaluk said.
Officials said weather over the past month in that area has included snow, rain and chilly temperatures.
"I don't believe they were prepared for winter weather," Raymond Chretien said. "They don't go camping."
The Chretiens were reported missing when they didn't return home March 30.
The RCMP, Baker City police and other agencies mounted a search in April but failed to turn up any sign.
Moskaluk described it as an extensive search covering 3,000 square miles "from March 31 onward."
He said the family is well regarded in Penticton and operates a heavy equipment excavation business.
Raymond Chretien said his mother doubts whether she would have made it three more days. She had been keeping a journal to let her family know what had happened.
Her son says she immediately apologized for the anguish she caused him, his two brothers and other relatives.
Prior to yesterday, I had not heard of "meat glue." Seems they can take tiny pieces of meat, glue them together and present it as whole cuts of meat. I just read a web page that describes the practice as pretty harmless. Hope they know what they are talking about.
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Sun 8 May, 2011 05:31 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
ELKO, Nev. — A rescued Canadian woman who survived for seven weeks ...
This has been a big story in our province. I just had heard about the woman being found. I'm sure the family is relieved.
I'm worried about her husband though. I have a feeling he may not have survived.
Ya know I am joshing, right?
