Are your posessions worth more than a human life?

[oldhippie]

100. Yup. We visited a friend in the hospital yesterday ......

She is a 70 year old Chinese friend of my wife's that owns and runs an Asian fish market in our town. A week ago last Thursday two young perps came into her shop to steal all the money in her cash register. Being who she is, she resisted, and fought back with a Chinese cleaver. They took it away from her, cut her badly, and beat the crap out of her face and apparently smashed her head on the concrete floor. Another customer found her unconscious about a half hour later and called 911.

She has been in intensive care with a concussion for 9 days. She was in a coma for five days. She will be moved to a regular ward tomorrow. My wife says her face is all blue and purple and only one eye will open. She is still not totally coherent.

Knowing Fong, she would do exactly the same thing again. She is not going to allow someone to steal the fruits of her work without a fight. I suspect next time she will fight harder with the cleaver. Some people are just constitutionally unable to give up their stuff.