Well, if you put it into perspective for modern day south africa, they didn't gangrape or torture anybody, didn't put flaming tires around peoples' necks, so , it's pretty much a victimless crime.
A donkey at an Algerian market ate the money of a man who came to buy him, making the unfortunate buyer and the owner wonder who the animal belongs to, an Algerian newspaper reported.
Neither the district court nor the city court was able to make a ruling that would satisfy both parties, so the case was passed on to the Algerian Supreme Court.
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Mullah Khuyovei (21st century): "The donkey is a thief. Front right and back left limbs must be amputated."
All kidding aside, this was the punishment for thieves in times long past. Given the islamic rules related to relieving onesself, can you imagine what a pain in the a$$ it would be come time to take a $hit? I'd rather die.
Police are on the trail of a shadowy figure who has been dumping giant carved stone heads on village doorsteps at dead of night. . . .
First reports of the discarded heads emerged last week when Fiona Gould, who runs the Forresters Arms hotel in Kilburn, found one on her patio. Five more were discovered in other parts of the village. She said: "Some people think it's a curse - but we have no idea who we might have offended. One woman claims there's a link to werewolves."
Each of the foot-high stones had the hand-written rhyme:
Twinkle, twinkle, like a star.
Does love flourish from afar?
taped to it. There was also a symbol on the reverse similar to the religious "chi-rho" sign with letters added which also could spell the word "paradox".
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a "foot high" is a "giant stone head"?
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HHHHMMMMMMM, a strange one but one of various, seemingly differentiated world events for this similar period of 2007, including but not limited to SOLAR WIND TAKES OFF COMET's TAIL.
DREAM/VISION [last in 1990's]> COLLISION OF GALAXIES + so-called GALACTIC CENTRE > As the earth moves thru this "Centre" in space, it unsuspectly enters a meteoric stream stemming from same. Fireballs begin to rain down = crash on various parts of our Earth -SUDDENLY, A MASSIVE ROCKY OBJECT APPEARS AND COLLIDES WID EARTH. In my horror, I scream
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......". I wake up in fear and deep sweat. *EXAMPLE - NEW YORK STATE > a group(s) of people try to take shelter in heavily damaged buildings as outside and all around them [and thru breaks in rooftops] BLACK ANGRY WINDS OF MASSIVE IMMENSE MAGNITUDE/STORM STRENGTH WHIRL THRU THE ATMOSPHERE HORIZON-TO-HORIZON [ Global Wind Storms]. Are EVENTS, NOT event.
Indonesia-Sumatra, etc. Quakes > as said before, iff people refuse or don't want to pray to God to ease his wrath, then at least get out in order to save their own lives and their own, while they still can. LET THE FAITHFUL DO THEIR BEST TO CONVINCE GOD TO SPARE THE EARTH AND HUMANITY.
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Look for a 20 or under year old male who took at least two pottery classes and at least one drama class in High School. He probably has long haor, bathes in accordance with a lunar monthly cycle that only he understands. His dad will likely be a successful contractor. He may affect an archeic lingo peppered with words like "groovy."
My profile is complete.
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Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable free it. In their attempts to work the drill loose, which is normally fairly easy at that shallow depth, the men heard a series of loud pops, just before the rig tilted precariously towards the water.
At the time, Lake Peigneur was an unremarkable body of water near New Iberia, Louisiana. Though the freshwater lake covered 1,300 acres of land, it was only eleven feet deep. A small island there was home to a beautiful botanical park, oil wells dotted the landscape, and far beneath the lake were miles of tunnels for the Diamond Crystal salt mine.
Concluding that something had gone terribly wrong, the men on the rig cut the attached barges loose, scrambled off the rig, and moved to the shore about 300 yards away. Shortly after they abandoned the $5 million Texaco drilling platform, the crew watched in amazement as the huge platform and derrick overturned, and disappeared into a lake that was supposed to be shallow. Soon the water around that position began to turn. It was slow at first, but it steadily accelerated until it became a fast-moving whirlpool a quarter of a mile in diameter, with its center directly over the drill site. . . .
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The youtube vid from the History Channel linked at the article is pretty amazing; never heard about thatt, "damn interesting" indeed.
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The History Channel program on the Lake Peigneur disaster (no deaths or injuries, but some truly spectacular property destruction) is a must-see. Absolutely fascinating.
The mishap began with a surveying error, which caused the oil drilling rig to puncture into an active, working salt mine (instead of proceeding downward alongside it). The lake rapidly drained into the mine, steadily enlarging the drill hole to the point where entire barges were sucked down into the vortex. The canal which normally drains the lake into the Gulf of Mexico began to flow backwards, and the Gulf promptly topped off the mine-- at which point all the barges and other debris that had been sucked down the hole, popped back up to the surface again.
It was a truly spectacular fuckup, and a royal mess. If you ever get a chance to watch the program, do.
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The mishap began with a surveying error, which caused the oil drilling rig to puncture into an active, working salt mine (instead of proceeding downward alongside it).
I prefer the Charybdis explanation, myself. But I'll concede to science on this one.
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There is a old plantation (haunted, naturally) you can visit right there on the lake and you can get a tour boat ride right out over where it (the drill accident) happened. After watching the little video first, to put you in the mood. Quite fun. The Tabasco plant is nearby too for visiting as well. Being Louisiana I do believe there are adult beverages around, but I'm a little foggy there. *g*
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understandable, Laurence, thx :-)
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Dozens of anti-nuclear protesters were arrested Monday as they marked the end of a year-long campaign at a submarine base in Scotland, police said. An estimated 500 demonstrators descended on Faslane Naval Base, on the River Clyde, home of the UK's Trident fleet of nuclear submarines, early today.
Many of them started blockading the main entrance by gluing themselves to the tarmac outside and chaining themselves together and to the fence. Police moved in quickly to start removing the demonstrators, making 94 arrests. Witnesses spoke of a "continuous" stream of people being carried off by teams of officers.
The protesters were marking the end of "Faslane 365", a year-long campaign against the hosting of the Trident fleet in Scotland. It has led to more than 940 arrests and a recent report showed the cost of policing the base has exceeded five million pounds. Organisers of today's action vowed to mark the occasion through "colourful, creative, and dramatic actions" at the base. Coachloads of people started arriving early this morning, when they were greeted by a large police presence.
Protesters blocked the entrance to the main gate by lying on the ground with their arms linked by tubes. Police used special cutting equipment to free them, before carrying them away to applause from the crowd. Police urged motorists to avoid the area around the base while the protest lasts. A spokesman for Faslane Naval Base said the protests had not had an effect on the main operations and people inside. He said "They have not really affected us at all." "Some gates have been closed as they have been this morning, but they have never affected the main priority of the base," the spokesman added.
South Korea's president, Roh Moo-hyun, today walked across the heavily armed border with North Korea on his way to a summit in Pyongyang. His meeting with the midget North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, is only the second such summit between the countries. Mr Roh, who has just five months left in office, said he would use the talks to press for peace and an eventual arms cut for the two states, which remain technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in a ceasefire.
Crossing the border near the North Korean city of Kaesong, the South Korean delegation was greeted by North Korean officials. Mr Roh and his wife, Kwon Yang-sook, stepped across a yellow plastic strip marked with the words "peace" and "prosperity" which was laid across the line that divides the two countries. "This line is a wall that has divided the nation for a half-century. Our people have suffered from too many hardships and development has been held up due to this wall," Mr Roh said. "This line will be gradually erased and the wall will fall. I will make efforts to make my walk across the border an occasion to remove the forbidden wall and move toward peace and prosperity."
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Good luck, pal. Repressive military dictatorships don't go down easily.
Scott Ott's on a roll lately...
In a reversal of a previous decision, Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards announced Thursday that his campaign would accept public funding as a matter of principle to demonstrate that I identify with the poor and downtrodden who live in the second America.
The decision, which Mr. Edwards noted is consistent with my previous statements to the contrary, could ultimately bring $105 million to his campaign if he should secure the Democrat nomination.
Ive raised enough money, and personally have enough money, to run this campaign without taxpayer dollars, said Mr. Edwards, but if I did that, Id be nothing but another fat cat with a rich crony network living in the first America unable to relate to the ordinary working poor, the non-working poor, the undocumented poor and all the other little people who populate the other America.
The former senator from North Carolina explained that the common bond shared by those in the second America is their dependence upon redistributed taxpayer dollars.
By receiving federal matching funds, he said hell be able to relate better to my brothers and sisters whose hope rests confidently in the goodness and power of our benevolent federal government.
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hilarious......one of the better scrap's in a while.
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One of the soldiers allowed a vehicle into the base without checking it, the other left his post ride a borrowed motorcycle with some local people, Czech public television reported.
It seems that most members of European armed forces do not take their roles seriously. Is this due to 1-year conscripts who just want to get back to the playstation as fast as possible?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
