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Religious Man Eaten After Trying to Receive Blessing From Crocodile
Fox News ^ | Friday, August 22, 2008

Posted on 08/22/2008 8:51:20 AM PDT by Joiseydude

Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal

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To: Joiseydude
Now now . . . no snide comments about a quaint "indigenous" person celebrating his perfectly valid culture.

I'm sure there are some snake-handling hillbillies around it would be so much more PC to make fun of.

81 posted on 08/22/2008 10:34:59 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ( . . . ki lo' `al-halechem levaddo yichyeh ha'adam, ki `al-kol-motza' fi-HaShem yichyeh ha'adam.)
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To: Joiseydude; Peanut Gallery

I’d say it’s a safe guess he wasn’t a Wise Man.


82 posted on 08/22/2008 10:40:38 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (www.pinupsforvets.com)
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To: Joiseydude

I believe we have a winner!!!!!! (2008 Darwin Award)


83 posted on 08/22/2008 10:51:43 AM PDT by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: Joiseydude

Definitely a 2008 Darwin Award nominee if not the winner.


84 posted on 08/22/2008 11:11:04 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Joiseydude
"Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal’s blessing."

He wasn't worthy.

85 posted on 08/22/2008 11:16:34 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: weegee
Note that the headline does not ID the country or religion.

Very true, but the first word of the article does -- Bangladesh

All religions aren’t the same and don’t deserve to be lumped as the actions of others.

That is also very true. Despite what some people here on FR seem to think, I have never said nor thought any thing of the sort: in fact they falsely accuse me of thinking and saying a lot of things I have never in my life thought nor said.

86 posted on 08/22/2008 1:10:23 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (The FairTax -- the largest magnet for capital and jobs in history. John Snow)
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To: weegee

Bangladesh, which is 90% Mohammedan. Most of the rest are Hindu and I can believe a Hindu trying to get a blessing from a primordial reptile. Hindus as a religious group are very devout and take their faith seriously. There are some native Bangla animist pagans in the country and up north. Beautiful people but very strange.

I can believe it. Bangladeshis will jump in the water with all kinds of critters. You see their kids riding Water Buffalo all the time. Many of the blind kids begging in the cities lost their eyesight to aquatic parasites.

If you are there during the monsoon season, in the south especially, you find the natives in water all over the place, doing all kinds of things. Trying to scrape out a living. No other choice.


87 posted on 08/22/2008 3:22:02 PM PDT by Amadeo
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To: Joiseydude

My favorite reply from the thread that got axed:

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll


88 posted on 08/22/2008 3:49:15 PM PDT by E-Mat (Made in China = Arms for Tyrants)
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To: Joiseydude

Crocks are athiests?

Who knew.


89 posted on 08/22/2008 3:53:03 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Computers: Once you go Mac, you'll never look back. :))
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To: Keith in Iowa

That croc is a devout Muslim.
(You are what you eat.)


90 posted on 08/22/2008 4:30:39 PM PDT by E-Mat (Made in China = Arms for Tyrants)
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To: Rudder

The man had insufficient faith. ;-)


91 posted on 08/22/2008 4:36:13 PM PDT by verity ("Lord, what fools we mortals be!")
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To: Night Hides Not

“That pic gives a new meaning to “finger foods”.”

LOL!


92 posted on 08/22/2008 6:20:42 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Why is everybody always pickin' on me)
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