Businessman fined for sending text message curse in China
OCTOBER 15, 2003 00:28:12

Hong Kong (dpa) - A businessman has been ordered to pay compensation for sending a curse by mobile phone text message to a business rival in southern China, a news report said Wednesday.

The text message, sent on Chinese New Year's Day, wished the rival in Foshan, Guangdong province, "ill fortune every year and trouble every day'', according to the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily.

The business rival took the sender to court where he was awarded 1,000 yuan (120 U.S. dollars) compensation for the psychological torment inflicted by the message, the newspaper said.

Imagine a curse like that being all you had to worry about.