Rampaging Bull Disrupts Parlaiment, Injures Tourist, Film at 11

The BBQ Pit
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It’s hard to decide precisely where to put this gem, but perhaps the Pit is right.

Bull disrupts Yemen parliament
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2953324.stm
Yemen’s parliament was interrupted when a raging bull broke free from its captors and injured three people, before being shot dead by police.

The bull had been brought to parliament for slaughter by tribesmen on Saturday to underline a grievance with a lawmaker Ahmed al-Kohlany. [More]

Ah Yemen. It really is a stunningly beautiful country, but there are some wrinkles, notably the Yemenis. Wonderful folks really, the Yemenis, very hospitable.

Where else can you go to be offered a narcotic over cafe by a man with not only an AK at his side, but an RPG? Or where you can visit a man in his house, with his personal T-52 MBT parked along side?

Or where it is considered ordinary operating procedure to extort money frm the central government by kidnapping people.

Or bring bulls to parlaiment.

I really do love the place, although regretably I never got kidnapped. Developed a concern about the Yemeni central government rescues.

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Maybe it was copying this bull that it saw on the news…?

Worldwide Bull Uprising!!!

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Certain parts of Manchester spring to mind.

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Damn, Gary stole my thunder. I was going to suggest Rotterdam. :slight_smile:

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Hell, I was going to suggest Washington.

Must be too obvious a joke.

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Bah you plebians, see in those places all of the above is illegal. In Yemen the Qat, the personal heavy weaponry is 100% a-ok.

Besides, I am unaware in any of the above that RPGs are part of even the underworld’s armaments.

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Underworld? I’m talking about the schoolkids.

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School kids? I was referring to nuns.

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Posers, both of you are posers. I’ll stand 100 Yemeni tribesmen against your schoolkids and nuns any day. Except Friday. Well, and maybe Saturday as well.

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Fat bit of good the lot of these did them against one pissed off bovine.

Seems a bit like the current problems many countries are having… they prepared for the big, obvious problem and now the surprise element is biting them in the rump roast.

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Well here you go, a freebie for the NRA folks: see after a recent assasination of a political figure they’ve upped security and disarmed folks around parlaiment.
Had representatives been allowed concealed carry of RPGs that damned bovine would have been toast.

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What a terror bull situation…

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lieu, lieu, lieu.

We’d better steer this conversation away from the hijack before someone has a beef with all our bull.

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Oh, now they’re backing off all of a sudden.

Cow ards.

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What an udderly rediculous situation.

Still, I mean, White Plains, founded, what, 1683 or so… still gets wild black bears on Main Street, some days… I got a neighbor, has a WWII Jeep with a machine gun he mounts for car shows… and another one with a South African Troop Carrier.

And I know this cop out west who has, for reasons even he’s not sure about, a LAW in the tail of his Tahoe. He explained it to me as “The mayor’s nuts for guns, you know, if we wanted to, we could conquer the next five towns.”

Sometimes, you just have to take the bull by the horns and ride.

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And here I am, thinking the thread title was describing some sort of biographical account of your work in the Mid-East. You’re slipping, Collounsbury.

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I hear the vote was really close, though. :wink:

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I can remember when metaphors had the decency to stay metaphorical.

In other news, shipments of bologna and hogwash have been rerouted to avoid passing all legislative assemblies.

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Holee crap, can you imagine a Raging Collounsbury?

“Hey, Ahmed, I never went down, man! You never got me down, Ahmed! You hear me, you never got me down.”

Mkay, mebbe he’d sound a little bit different than that.

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Now that’s entertainment.