i was flipping through today’s Today on the train and this headline grabbed my attention.
MUM ASKS ONLINE WHAT TO DO WITH DAUGHTER’S BODY
curious, i went on to read it. (read the full article here)
basically, this Taiwanese mother whose cousin had just beaten her 4-year-old daughter to death was at a loss. she didn’t know what to do with the corpse and how to dispose of it.
so after 4 days of keeping the body iced, she did what everyone else does. she Googled it. well, not exactly Googled it. she went on Yahoo instead. but you get the idea.
she asked, “How should you proceed with a dead four-year-old child? Urgent, please!”
if this isn’t over-dependence on search engines and the internet, i don’t know what is. i might also like to point out that she didn’t take into account that the internet is a public domain. so.. going on Yahoo with her million dollar question probably wasn’t the wisest course of action to take. she’d be better off asking her friendly neighbourhood assassin for tips.
