Suicide theme park proposed for Hong Kong island

[emad]

Suicide theme park proposed for Hong Kong island

Hong Kong
09 August 2005 10:23

A Hong Kong official said one of the territory's tiny islands could make a killing with a novel theme park based on its unsavoury reputation as a suicide spot, a media report said on Tuesday.

The morbid suggestion to create a ghost-town attraction where guests were dared to spend the night in "haunted flats" came at a meeting of local leaders on little Cheung Chau island.

Councillor Lam Kit-sing said the island should capitalise on the grisly reputation of one of its holiday homes, where 20 people have taken their lives in the past eight years. Another five people attempted suicide there.

Lam believes the macabre park could be an added attraction for the millions of people expected in the city when Hong Kong Disneyland opens in September.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=247565

HARIKIRI-Disneyland?????

[Tesha]

1. Will they have purple roofs and look like ex-Howard Johnsons? (NT)

[wli]

2. 'hara kiri" is Japanese for "belly cutting" and properly called "seppuku"

Also, the Chinese are about as unlikely to like being confused with the Japanese as Jews are likely to be confused with Germans.