Based on the article "Doctors remove nails allegedly hammered into maid by employers" found here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/27/sri.lanka.maid.assault/index.html?hpt=T2
My comments in italics and enclosed by "( )."
(LoL) -- Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid, Lahadapurage Daneris Ariyawathie, by her Saudi employer. (And you thought your boss was a dick. Sure, your boss might be inept, lazy and condescending, but does he/she drive nails into your extremities...and face? No? Well, then quitcherbitchin!)
She was held down by her employer's wife (the couple that pounds metal things into their servant's body together, stays together) while the employer hammered the heated nails (Holy ess! HEATED nails. 'Cuz, you know, having unheated nails driven into your body is so unrelaxing. And potentially unsterile) Ruhunuge told CNN. She apparently had complained to the couple that she was being overworked (I'm guessing the complaint was not registered by a note found in one of those anonymous comment boxes. I'm also guessing this guy will not be getting a "World's Best Boss" mug from his employees this year).
Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of two children who were opposed to their mother's journey to Saudi Arabia for work (Really? That's odd, considering the Middle East has such a great reputation for welcoming women servants).
Sri Lankan officials, meanwhile, met with Saudi diplomats in Colombo to urge an investigation into the incident (It is expected that Saudi officials will do everything they can to bring this nail-smuggling woman to justice).
"It was cruel treatment which should be roundly condemned," said L.K. Ruhunuge of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (this sentiment was seconded by the guy from Hellraiser).
Ariyawathie's dream was to one day return to Sri Lanka and build a house with the money she saved (Mission accomplished, girl. You're back home and already have the nails needed to begin construction on your dream hut!)
Saudi officials were not immediately available for comment (they were apparently busy nailing the secretary, because "the slut was showing some ankle in public").
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