Notes » June 2009

Domestic Dispatching

Considering the reports in recent years of Hong Kong domestic helpers getting revenge upon more-than-demanding employers by lacing food and drink with noxious substances (usually bodily fluids), it was only a matter of time before a helper went all the way postal.

And the media is agog with the opportunity to publish the gory details (which I shall spare you), because it's not every day that a helper murders her employer with a chopper in the middle of the night. To the rabid hordes this is the best thing to happen since the infamous 'Milkshake Murder' a few years back, which involved an expatriate couple and all sorts of sordid and seamy secrets.

No one can say yet whether the helper simply snapped under pressure or that she is mentally ill, but if it is revealed to be the former it will hit a huge nerve in the Big Lychee: abuse is nothing new.

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