Yes and No.  Back in January a local man of the grumpy old age of 72 decided that he wanted to help clean his wife’s flat… so he threw two cups of ‘toilet cleaner’ to her face.

Now, whether or not that cleaned up the flat, it comes as a shock that his hottie 50-year old wife wants him back. When a woman writes both a plea for leniency during the trial, and a letter of intent to the trying judge seven months later, this man must have either a huge pair of balls, a huge pair of credit cards, or be the only man at 72 who doesn’t need viagra.

Here in Hong Kong we don’t skip a beat when hearing of acid attacks, largely due to Mong Kok acid rains plus the fact that in HK culture it seems the equivalent of ‘time out corner’ is ‘acid in the face.’  It does not come as a shock that our laws reflect this:

“The maximum sentence for throwing corrosive fluid with intent to do grievous bodily harm is life imprisonment”

Seriously. It’s one thing to say premeditated murder is life imprisonment, or that stabbing someone is manslaughter, but throwing corrosive fluid with the intent to do grievous bodily harm seems like a charge made from repetition. We’re willing to bet that the “TCFWITDGBH” charge is more used than murder in Hong Kong.

To all people who are intending to “TCFWITDGBH”, the point comes across much better with a face-scratch followed by a vodka-lime.