Tvnz Shocker

I was watching Criminal Minds last night, a particularly gory episode involving a serial killer, tourniquets and amputations of limbs involving a band saw. My Art Friend was understandably hiding her eyes.

During our my sky shuffle and much to our bewilderment and amusement there was an advert for a programme running this evening : An edition of Real Life titled Born without arms.

Was this bad luck, some misplaced attempt at humour or just armless fun?

I had a friend once who used to work in a record store and always put the Gary Glitter CD's back in the childrens section.

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