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A ghost story from the evening paperPosted by Joel Martinsen, December 14, 2007 1:17 PM
![]() The Jinan-based Qilu Evening News, like most evening papers in China, mixes newsier items with ludicrously-overwritten "news of the weird"-style reports. This one's a dramatic re-enactment of a short item from the police blotter: Busy line on a buried phone spooks filial son
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Comments on A ghost story from the evening paper
If only Mr. Sun had switched SIM cards, everyone would've won. But too much greed was kindled in his heart. Like my momma always said, "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered."
But shouldn't Chen's mother have been cremated? Is that not the law for all who are not muslim? How did this phone survive the cremation?
So much for the myth that all Chinese are superstitious about death and refuse to use things that were owned by dead people.