Posted on 04/02/2002 10:56:22 AM PST by ex-Texan
SPCA fumes at Aids-wary goat molesters
[Johannesburg] - Boys in a Northern Province village, where many people have apparently died of Aids, are allegedly turning their attention to goats: they think practising bestiality is the way to avoid getting the disease. Now the National Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals has appealed to people to come forward with information.
The NSPCA said it had noted an SABC news report that boys of Mamvuka Village in Nzhelele Valley in the far north of the province have sex with goats to avoid getting Aids. The organisation said other admissions were made during the news insert, which was broadcast on Sunday evening, but the NSPCA had not yet received any official complaints.
"Bestiality is a criminal offence. Charges can be laid under the Criminal Procedure Act and also in terms of the Animals Protection Act," the NSPCA statement said. It said two convictions were recently obtained for bestiality and both offenders were imprisoned without the option of a fine.
"An appeal is made to anyone with information on this - or any other bestiality offences to come forward. The NSPCA stresses that charges can only be laid and proceed when information sufficient to prove beyond reasonable doubt is to hand."
Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the Northern Province police had not received any reports of such crimes. But the SABC interviewed at least one boy who admitted he considered bestiality as safe sex, and that he and his friends had sex with goats up to four times a week.
"We know about Aids and we are very afraid of it. That is why we are having sex with these goats. Goats don't have Aids.
"We see people in the village dying everyday. It's because they have slept with one another and infected each other. Goats can't get those infections. We would therefore rather have sex with them," a grade 11 scholar said.
"It's obvious that if I'm not sick there is nothing I can transmit to goats and goats to me. We won't become HIV-positive because goats don't get Aids. We often share the same goat and don't get each other's diseases," he said.
The NSCPA said some of the statements made during the broadcast revealed a lack of education, and that an information campaign should be launched in the affected areas.
"Whether education or prosecution is the key, the matter cannot move forward without co-operation and solid information. The NSPCA is deeply concerned that the youths repeatedly stated their reasoning for having sex with goats - avoidance of Aids. It is suggested that urgency be given to correcting such myths."
The SABC reported that the practice affected goat-farming in the area. Sinah Musekwa, a goat owner, said nobody wanted to buy his goats any more.
"Since we've learnt that these rumours are true people don't want to be associated with these goats. No one wants anything to do with their meat or milk. I'm going to have to destroy my goats," he said.
Sure smells like an Onion (but, apparently not).
(With apologies to the Bard):
SCENE II. Goat's orchard.Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
But, soft! what light through yonder thicket breaks?
It is the east, and Julie Goat is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my nanny, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She bleats yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she bleats:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hoof!
O, that I were a fly upon that hoof,
That I might touch that cheek!
JULIE GOAT
MAAAAAHHH!
ROMEO
She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
JULIE GOAT
MAAAAAHHH!
ROMEO
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Mamvuka.
What's MAMVUKA? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a goat
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Julie Goat would, were she not Julie Goat call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which she owes
Without that title. Julie Goat, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
You fail to go far enough. Clearly is is the responsibility of our public education system to teach safe goat luvin'. Furthermore, there should be a government program to provide goats to the underprivileged who cannot afford one.
That puts it in perspective.
Hmmm . . . would you rather have a 3-bedroom house in a US suburb, a girlfriend, a steady job and a great-grandfather who was a slave to a Virginian, or would you prefer to be a jobless, starving goatrapist whose great-grandfather was a slave to an African chieftain?
I recently heard that most of what passes for lamb in the US is really goat.....I had goat (errr Lamb )last week..I sure hope it was a virgin!
They won't be passing it on to their kids, will they? ;-)
For a good laugh check out this link:
(Almost gave myself a stroke trying not to laugh out loud).
Whoa, there, 'Wonk. Before you know it, we'll be blamed for this, too. Our predecessors' hate crimes likely decreased the self-esteem of all the peoples of the African continent. The fear and loathing were handed down through the generations, and they -- we -- are directly to blame for today's atrocities.
LOL!
Seriously, is it worth it to avoid AIDS if you're putting yourself at risk of mad-goat disease?
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