Guy Gets Bashed for Complaining about Two Missing Screws

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Guy Gets Bashed for Complaining about Two Missing Screws

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Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): At 6:00 pm on May 21, 2022, at a phone shop called Ly Heng situated in Khan Po Sen Chey, Phnom Penh, 31-year-old Phorn Samnanng, a construction worker, was beaten up by the phone shop owner when he went to make a complaint.
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The worker had taken his phone to the shop to get fixed a week earlier, and according to him, he didn't check his phone afterwards. However, when he took his phone out of the phone case to use it a week later, he found that 2 screws were missing from the phone, so he went to confront the phone shop owner, accusing him of stealing the two screws, and the two men got into a fight.

The shop owner got really angry and started assaulting the victim with an iron bar. As a result, the victim suffered a head injury that required 5 stitches, as well as some bruises on the body, and injuries on his arms.
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The phone shop owner was arrested and held in custody for further proceedings, and he agreed to pay 900USD to the victim as compensation for his injuries.
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" he found that 2 screws were missing from the phone, so he went to confront the phone shop owner, accusing him of stealing the two screws "

Either screws are very expensive in Cambodia or the guy is totally bonkers :)
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jaynewcastle wrote: Tue May 24, 2022 10:11 pm " he found that 2 screws were missing from the phone, so he went to confront the phone shop owner, accusing him of stealing the two screws "

Either screws are very expensive in Cambodia or the guy is totally bonkers :)
Or it’s lost a bit in translation (both original story, and the Khmer/English translation), and the phone shop simply did a gash job? Not entirely usual.
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jaynewcastle wrote: Tue May 24, 2022 10:11 pm " he found that 2 screws were missing from the phone, so he went to confront the phone shop owner, accusing him of stealing the two screws "

Either screws are very expensive in Cambodia or the guy is totally bonkers :)
In this case 900$!
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Some people just don't want to admit they've made a mistake.
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He should know that a screw you miss out on you never get back. :hattip:
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Seems like the shop owner has a couple of screws loose.
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Tue May 24, 2022 10:07 pm
The worker had taken his phone to the shop to get fixed a week earlier, and according to him, he didn't check his phone afterwards. However, when he took his phone out of the phone case to use it a week later, he found that 2 screws were missing from the phone, so he went to confront the phone shop owner, accusing him of stealing the two screws, and the two men got into a fight.

To be fair; the victim looks very punchable and the old "I didn't use it for a week and then I saw two screws were missing" is at best a rather tenuous story - I don't believe it and the owner probably didn't either

He would have been better calling the piggies though, rather than beating the dude with a metal bar
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Its actually very common with internal screws at least that they only put back enough to keep it together and save the rest for other repairs.
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Just a scenario! You have recently bought a smartphone from the shop, the phone has a fault, such has the phone screen is flickering.
So, the shop owner comes around to your side of the counter, and starts bashing a customer who claims that 2 screws are missing from his phone. The guy is laying in the gutter of the road after being wacked by a metal bar, with now the owner on the return to the counter, with a tight grasp of the bar in his hand.
"Can I help you Sir?", the voice of the young lady sale's assistant on the other side of the counter. "No, I was only browsing" was the reply.
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