A term that was attached to the wave of new
mobile phone violence in
Asia. The recent boom of
cellphones in
Asia resulted in just about everyone having a
phone, including little kids. When
fights occured, people would grab the first weapon in hand, in these cases, their
cellphones. The
Motorola Chop is basically using the
phone as a kind of
knuckleduster or
baton to slap downwards on the head of the opponent. Quite
painful, for the
cellphone is a solid piece of hard
plastic, with several pointy ends capable of inflicting
damage to the
head area.
Even more disturbing were incidents of schoolyard violence involving cellphones. Little kids would use the cellphones to bludgeon each other, causing severe bruises and bleeding. Many cases started off when a bullying type tried to grab the phone of a smaller kid when he was talking, and the kid turns around and smashes the phone into the side of the bully's head. Strange? Well, it's been happening a lot lately. The Motorola Fights of Asia can be seen as the schoolyard shootings of America, because it caused just as much outrage and concern in Asia as the guns caused in America. Yeah, there are no guns here. The Motorola Chop is about as formidable as they go around here.
Never mind that cellphones still cost a bit of money, people are using them beat each other up. That's Asia for you.