Musings from the Merse
Friday, September 08, 2006
Being a slow dress down Friday (yellow t-shirt and torn trousers in the Old Manse) Huttonian was intrigued to have a bloggee send the following little item from AOL Unusually (for this bloggee) the story is not about Norn Iron but real foreign parts.
Arranged marriages my not have been unknown in the Borders in Olden tymes but I doubt that the Rievers went in for this sort of thing.And I don't want all those Welsh jokes being trotted (no pun intended) out
A Sudanese man caught having sex with a goat has been forced to take the animal as his "wife".The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he caught another man, Mr Tombe, having sex with the animal after hearing a "loud noise", the BBC reported.
"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 told a local newspaper.
A council of elders ordered Mr Tombe to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars (£38) and keep the goat.
"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 said.
"As far as we know they are still together."
At least this little tale (again no pun intended) ends positively and ratber sweetly. And getting one's goat will for ever have an alternative meaning-in the Sudan at any rate.
Arranged marriages my not have been unknown in the Borders in Olden tymes but I doubt that the Rievers went in for this sort of thing.And I don't want all those Welsh jokes being trotted (no pun intended) out
A Sudanese man caught having sex with a goat has been forced to take the animal as his "wife".The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he caught another man, Mr Tombe, having sex with the animal after hearing a "loud noise", the BBC reported.
"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 told a local newspaper.
A council of elders ordered Mr Tombe to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars (£38) and keep the goat.
"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 said.
"As far as we know they are still together."
At least this little tale (again no pun intended) ends positively and ratber sweetly. And getting one's goat will for ever have an alternative meaning-in the Sudan at any rate.
Comments:
Goodness - this was a BBC Story before Easter.... some time in February I think. I wonder if they are still together or if he's added uxoricide to his list of offences and goat curry to his menu?
Well there is AOL for you. No, I am sure they are still together. I am sure he is that sort of bloke. Uxoricide possibly but nannytopping, never
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