A Saudi man convicted of paralysing a fellow countryman in a cleaver attack is being threatened with having his spinal cord cut in a tit-for-tat punishment. The ultra-conservative desert Kingdom enforces Islamic law and on rare occasions metes out punishments based on the ancient code of an ‘eye-for-an-eye’.
The case judge in the northwestern province of Tabuk has sent letters to several hospitals seeking their advice on whether it is medically possible to render the attacker’s spinal cord non-functional, local newspapers said.
It is very rare for these punishments to be carried out as the victim's family generally accepts financial reparation from the offender, (funny that), but it got me thinking. As many of you know, I don't follow any of the main religions but I don't think that should stop us from adopting any ideas they might have if there any good and after 3000 years, they must have come up with something apart from making money, (fucking stop it-Ed).
For instance, in this 'Christian' country we are supposed to live by the 10 commandments. Fair enough, I say, that's a fair enough point for giving us some sort of morals, as long as our politicians remember them, too. So should we adopt or regress back to the 'eye for an eye', punishment. "You're joking", I hear you liberals shout, although there are not too many liberals read this pile of shite, but stay with me for a moment. There you are on a quiet night out with your wife or husband, or perchance your same sex partner, (you thought I had forgotten my gay following there) and through no fault of your own, some fuckwit sticks a glass in your face causing severe impairment to your vizog. Would you not want, if and when he was found guilty, the option of having his face surgically damaged to mirror your own impairment, or else the offer of say £10,000 from him to enjoy your recuperation? Surely better than him going before a Judge and being given 50 hours community service because he's from a broken home? If he knew, that might be the punishment, do you think he would have thought twice about doing it in the first place?
JUST ASKING!
MEN who surreptitiously leer at attractive women must 'come out', it was claimed last night.
Research by the Institute for Studies found that unconcealed 'open ogling' is marginally less pitiful than trying to pretend there's something fascinating in a shop window which just happens to be behind some breasts.
Dr Emma Bradford said: "Ogling is a condition which affects all men above the age of about 33, which is when they start to become pathetic.
Ogling techniques include:
'Metro peepover' - a stare over a free paper commonly practised on public transport.
Car blanche' - when a male driver feels he can get away with a prolonged lascivious gaze because he might be looking for a turning.
Roy Hobbs, a 48-year-old ogler, believes his marriage has vastly improved after he agreed to dispense with his flimsy excuses.
"I'm allowed 20 minutes of dedicated ogle per day, while my wife has sex with the builder."
h/t to the Daily Mash, an excellent publication from where I nicked some of this story. The pic of the 'Girl Who Must Be Ogled', however is mine!
A banker claims she was sacked for wearing clothes that were too sexy.
Debrahlee Lorenzana, 33, said she was fired by Citibank because her pencil skirts and fitted suits distracted male colleagues. She was told not to wear high heels because they drew attention to her figure and stopped men from working, according to a lawsuit.
Ridiculous. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT!
DOZENS of women have written to Pope Benedict asking if Roman Catholic priests can be allowed the occasional hand job.
In an open letter, the girlfriends of more than 40 priests have called for a relaxation of the church's stance on celibacy to allow a limited range of sexual practices, including the reverse Dutch Steamboat, the Stockholm Slip'n'Slide and the Sorcerer's Apprentice. But a Vatican spokesman said: "Having read the letter I can't help noticing that the shaky handwriting looks suspiciously like that of a man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Not to mention the fact that several of the pages were stuck together."
"The Pope is not totally unsympathetic - he's seen Barbarella for Christ's sake - but he simply does not understand why a fully trained priest would seek comfort in the arms of a woman when he's surrounded by rows and rows of freshly packed boymeat."
