Ah, These Unwilling Men

An Indian man with 39 wives, 86 children and 35 grandchildren says "I never wanted to get married but that's the path God has chosen for me. It's not my wish to keep marrying again and again."  http://bit.ly/rVwOj9


Meanwhile: "Police in Zimbabwe on Friday charged three women found in possession of 33 condoms containing semen with 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault in a case that may be a break in a string of sex attacks over the past two years by women targeting male hitchhikers. Prosecutor Michael Reza told a court in Harare that the counts were for each of the 17 men who had positively identified the women as having sexually assaulted them in 2010 or 2011."

And David just added this: http://bit.ly/w4FGNo 

Another candidate for the Darwin Awards

Nice story about a car thief, an axe, and a bicycle: http://t.co/KD19Ya2g

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Seen on Sarcee Trail:

Dial 911 : Make a Firefighter Come

Google+ and Facebook

CBC radio asked its listeners today if they were on Google+. It said it too was on Google+ but that it didn't know what to do with it. It asked listeners who knew what to do with it to let it know via a posting to its Facebook site.

Military Precision

A recent BBC article about the prohibition of beards in the US military mentions the regulations in police departments too, including this one from the LAPD: "Moustaches shall not extend below the vermillion of the upper lip or below the corners of the mouth and may not extend to the side more than one half inch beyond the corners of the mouth."

Who would have thought?

A massive six-engine fire is still blazing in Ottawa at a Home Depot store. Asked about the cause, an employee said "We don't know really. We were putting a large load of self-starting fire logs in the basement storage area, when..." (TV report on CBC. See also http://bit.ly/eFk7gz)

Cultural determinism?

A man who founded a Muslim-oriented TV station in New York, in an attempt to counter negative portrayals of Muslims, has been found guilty of beheading his wife who was filing for a divorce. (Sadly, this is not a joke: http://bit.ly/eTxWjg)