Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.

The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.
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Until I read this I was anti arranged marriage. ;)

(really I am still anti arranged marriage, but hey, this is amusing.)

Strange

Yesterday I was at work, as happens and I happened to look out of the window. Its not a pretty area. Theres a boarded up ex-drug den across the road that a local councillor (if memory serves) had cleared of the H-heads. It has sat there since boarded up. There is a patch of waste ground next to the place.

I was looking out onto this wasteground.

Me : "Here. Come look at this!"
Somone else: "What the...?!?"



This is in no way staged. This is taken from an upstairs window with a doctors expensive camera and zoom lense. I have no idea what this man was doing. He was there for around 30 minutes I think, I was busy, I could not stay at the window and watch. I wish I could have. I could only look for a couple of minutes, then I decided that it deserved a picture.

It was windy and the sign at his feet fell over a few times. He would reach down and stand it up again. I never saw his face. He went when I was busy in another room, before I could get outside to talk to him. I wanted to blog any conversation I had with him.

It is a very strange thing to do and I think even stranger to see. I am glad the doctor likes his expensive camera and trusts me with knowing where the keys are kept to that cupboard. ;)

I cannot think what statement he could be making. No one saw him leave. He was not there today.

Are you on drugs?

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A 52-year-old man from the German town of Darmstadt tried in vain to get a refund for 400 euros ($475) worth of what he said was "bad marijuana" from his dealer before turning to the police for help, according to authorities.

The police then charged the man with violating drugs possession laws and confiscated the 200 grams of marijuana he brought with him to the police station, according to a report in Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday.

"It is un-usable," the man told police in the hope they would help him get his money back. Amounts of up to 30 grams of marijuana are allowed in most German states for private consumption.

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What a stupid thing to do.

What to start a blog with

What do you start a blog with?

I have no idea. What with the whole world seeming to be on the brink of insanity, there is a host of stuff I could write about. I won't though. Instead I've decided to take this opportunity to show some of my work.

Please click on each image for a larger version. Before anyone asks, I do not say what each piece means to me. Everyone is allowed their own interpretation of my work.

Feel free to comment. I like hearing them, the good and the bad.



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