A man thought to be mentally ill showed up at Cable TV’s Tsuen Wan offices at 11:30am this morning to demand, while violently brandishing a knife, that his subscription be cancelled. He stabbed a security officer who tried to stop him but was subsequently subdued, reports Passion Times.
We’d tell him to just switch over to Now TV, but we’re not sure they’re any better… The security guard was sent to the hospital.
Apparently Cable TV is famous for being impossible to cancel: “Even Hitler couldn’t cut his Cable TV service,” a local saying goes. Seriously. Local netizens of course did not condone his behaviour, but still many empathized that it is supremely hard to cancel the service.
The great social commentator that is South Park actually made an entire episode last year about cable TV companies and their maniacal grip on their customers’ dollars:
You mean that we’re forced to pay for the Oprah Channel?
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