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Kenya detains 1,000 'under-age drinkers' in Nairobi
BBC News ^ | 7-8-2013

Posted on 07/09/2013 5:40:57 AM PDT by Renfield

More than 1,000 children suspected of under-age drinking were arrested in Kenya's capital Nairobi over the weekend, police say.

Bars and clubs were raided after complaints that they had become crowded with schoolchildren during a three-week teachers' strike.

Most of the children were later released because there were not enough cells to hold them, police said.....

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: booze; kenya; schoolchildren

1 posted on 07/09/2013 5:40:57 AM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield

In Kenya, that’s a stoning offense, right?


2 posted on 07/09/2013 5:49:08 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: WayneS

No. Kenya is majority-Christian and doesn’t have sharia (at least, not yet).


3 posted on 07/09/2013 5:54:53 AM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield

They obviously don’t have Midnight Basketball.


4 posted on 07/09/2013 6:19:31 AM PDT by tsomer
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To: Renfield

Having been to Tanzania,Kenya’s southern neighbor and a country *much* like it,I can say that underage drinkers are the *least* of the country’s problems.


5 posted on 07/09/2013 6:20:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Renfield

Dude, just do it Pittsburgh style and take your brewskis into the woods down some steep hillside.

You get the added entertainment benefit of fifty-something cops stumbling into tree trunks in the darkness as they try and chase you.


6 posted on 07/09/2013 7:19:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Renfield

This is a shame; two things every ten-year-old needs absolutely is a shot of Scotch and a good five-cent cigar.


7 posted on 07/09/2013 10:44:17 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Jack Hammer

Vice President Tom Marshall, is that you ?


8 posted on 07/09/2013 7:16:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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