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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

How Is He Going to Type Now? 

What is it with guys losing body parts for women lately? Apparently now a guy from Los Angeles lost all his fingers to frostbite while trying to sneak into Canada:

A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported — minus all his fingers and some of his toes, it was reported Tuesday.

Charles Gonsoulin, 41, will have the fingers and toes amputated because of severe frostbite suffered during a 100-hour trek from Pembina, N.D., across the border to Emerson, Manitoba, where he was found wandering on a golf course on Feb. 23, suffering from hypothermia, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper reported.
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Gonsoulin and the Canadian woman met in an Internet chat room in 2002. The woman lives in Quebec, about 1,600 miles east of the spot where Gonsoulin was found, Gonsoulin’s lawyer, Mike Cook, told a court hearing.

Gonsoulin could not enter Canada legally because he was convicted of robbing a Pizza Hut in Arkansas in 1984, the newspaper said.
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Gonsoulin is receiving medical treatment in a Winnipeg jail. He still has not met his girlfriend face-to-face, but they have spoken on the phone and Gonsoulin said they are still in love.

So assuming he doesn't have to spend some time in jail... how are they going to chat with each now that he's missing all his fingers? Maybe he can type with his nose... or if she types something particularly dirty... with his... well you know. There's always voice recognition software I suppose. And I guess if they get really desperate, they can go low tech and use the - *gasp* - telephone. But then, how would he punch in the numbers to dial?

Hmmm... is it really tasteless to be making fun of this guy?

Comments:

I see no other choice BUT to make fun of this guy.

  Posted at March 08, 2005 3:51 PM by Blogger Lance Burri  
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