Vietnamese cops jailed for death row pregnancy ruse

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Andus McCoatover

One Billion Dong? #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 12:11 GMT

Surely, now it's one billion and one Dong?

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Radix

Well... #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 12:11 GMT

I've heard of "dying for a fcuk", but that's the first time I've heard of anyone "not dying for a fcuk". Go girl....

Matt Horrocks

1.5m dong #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 12:52 GMT

Imagine a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" over there... you start off at 100 dong (about £0.003, i.e. a third of a penny), work you way up the easy questions to 1000 dong (a whole THREE PENCE!) then up to where most people seem to get stuck at 32000 dong (woah nearly a pound there, 96p). Or if you're very lucky you can get the MILLION! (30 quid).

Anonymous Coward

one for... #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 13:42 GMT

Leslie Philips to comment on.

"Ding dong!"

JonB

Simplifying vietnamese currency... #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 13:42 GMT

Gigadong, Megadong & Kilodong surely...

Hmmm... Perhaps "Orgy" for 10 dong...

Anonymous Coward

@ Radix #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 13:42 GMT

"Dying for a fcuk"? What on earth does a fashionable clothing brand have to do with a Vietnamese woman's death sentence? Did you mean to say "dying for a fuck"?

Mark

Why use an inmate?? #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 14:18 GMT

When I'm sure they could've performed an "on the job" workout?

Charlie

Been there, done that #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 15:36 GMT

This was common practice in England a few hundred years ago. People condemned to death were generally taken pity on and given a lot of freedom (relatively speaking) during their last few days. Women convicts would frequently offer themselves to anyone who might get them pregnant, thus saving their life.

Stratman

Inflation? #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 16:42 GMT

One could make comments about the rising Vietnamese dong but good taste comes to the fore.

Mike

surly.. #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 18:00 GMT

it was the man who gave dong to the female inmate.

Jim Hunter

Where's the IT connection? #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 22:15 GMT

.........Who put the RAM in the RAM-A-LAM-A-DING-DONG

I'm on me way, forget the coat!

Alan Potter

@Charlie: A few days to get pregnant? #

Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 22:30 GMT

Yes, I know you only need one day - well a few minutes, actually. Okay, okay, a few seconds to get pregnant, but it certainly would take a damn sight longer than that for it to actually show, even if you have a pregnancy test and I don't believe they had those pee-sticks a few hundred years ago. So either these women had more than a few days to wander around before they were going to be executed or they just stuffed a cushion up their jumper and all the gullible men fell for it. It's not unknown for it to happen - even now.

As for Vietnam, it has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. But perhaps it also has the greatest number of unmarried mothers...

Brian

This is just too easy... #

Posted Friday 16th November 2007 08:39 GMT

With all that dong she managed to acquire I would've been amazed if she DIDN'T get preggers....Play me out, Johnny! (cue cheesey intermission music...)

Dont bother, I didnt even take my coat off....

Anonymous Coward

Units #

Posted Friday 16th November 2007 10:35 GMT

The bribe was 100 packs of cigarettes in Vietnam or 10 packs here. Which makes it about £450 for international units comparrison.

AD Marshall

Hey, i resent that #

Posted Saturday 17th November 2007 01:50 GMT

Been here a baker's dozen years, in SighGone, and i'd've never imagined a slapstick session going more than 5 quips without some sot tossing in his "two dong's worth". That's mine.

Mặc AD Marshall, Founder, Sole Member, HøLUG, Ho [Chi Minh City] Linux User Group, http://h0lug.sourceforge.net/

AD Marshall

Re. Hey, i resent that: Oops #

Posted Saturday 17th November 2007 08:43 GMT

As per editorial policy at "The Organ of the Party Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Ho Chi Minh City", Saigon Liberation, http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/, i should've writ, "... SighGone, Việt Nam..."

Just for completeness and edification's sake, i should've writ, "... a slapstick session on the Đồng..."

GBP 1.00 = Việt Nam Đồng (VND) 32,311 or so.

Source: Saigon Liberation

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