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Knickerless girl freed without charge (AFRICAN LAWS UPDATE)
Ananova ^
| January 11, 2003
| Ananova
Posted on 01/11/2003 8:37:46 AM PST by MadIvan
A girl being hunted by police in Uganda for wearing no knickers at a party has been arrested and freed without charge.
The girl, believed to be 17, faced a jail term of up to seven years for indecent assault.
She was apparently pictured wearing a miniskirt with no pants.
The teenager was photographed in Ugandan newspapers dancing on a stage at a New Year's street party in Kampala.
The police insisted she had no knickers, but the girl claimed she had been wearing a G-string, reports Enter Uganda.
Police seemed divided after finally arresting the girl, known as Jamel, with one officer saying she was over 18 and would be charged.
But Kampala regional CID chief Moses Sakira took a different view, saying: "The girl was a minor at the time she committed the offence.
"The Police have opted to have her counseled instead of prosecuted."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: laws; strict; uganda; underwear
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Corruption may be endemic in Africa, but at least they take a strong view on dress codes. ;)
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:37:46 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Delmarksman; Sparta; Toirdhealbheach Beucail; TopQuark; TexKat; Iowa Granny; vbmoneyspender; ...
Bump!
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:38:03 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Reminds me of a saying my mother used say about the noveau riche: 'All fur coat, and no knickers'! *LOL*
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:40:12 AM PST
by
Happygal
(~(_8^(¦) Doh!)
To: MadIvan
faced a jail term of up to seven years for indecent assault. And some people think that what someone wears (or doesn't wear) underneath pants or dresses is a victimless crime!
(Tinfoil time - was this law supported by the eeeeevil knicker manufacturing lobby?)
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:41:21 AM PST
by
coloradan
To: Happygal
We won't get into that being just forgetfulness or a fashion statement, Darling.
Love, Ivan
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:41:50 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Corruption may be endemic in Africa, but at least they take a strong view on dress codes. ;) Well what could be more important for the police to spend their time on?
If they weren't busy checking on the type of underwear that girls were wearing, they might have to investigate what the politicians were stealing. This is similar to American police spending all that time looking for harmless people who smoke Marujuana, when there are much bigger fish to fry.
To: Happygal
'All fur coat, and no knickers'! In this case delete the word "coat."
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:43:19 AM PST
by
Erasmus
To: coloradan
Tell us honestly: would you feel the same way if Hillary Klinton introduced this fashion fad to the Senate?
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:46:00 AM PST
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: Erasmus; MadIvan
`In this case delete the word "coat"' Uh-oh Ivan, I think you've just started a debate about the merits of a bikini wax! *LOL*
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:46:40 AM PST
by
Happygal
(~(_8^(¦) Doh!)
To: Happygal
'All fur coat, and no knickers'! *LOL* I suppose one could wax philosophically about that one....
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:47:57 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore)
To: Happygal
Uh-oh Ivan, I think you've just started a debate about the merits of a bikini wax! *LOL* Surely not, darling. ;)
Love, Ivan
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:48:15 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Happygal
LOL See #11
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:48:19 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore)
To: MadIvan
Sounds like the authorities really had their knickers in a twist over this!!
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:48:33 AM PST
by
Redcloak
(Tag, you're it!)
To: Mike4Freedom
This is similar to American police spending all that time looking for harmless people who smoke Marujuana, when there are much bigger fish to fry. Don't worry about the American Police! They have a forever re-newable crop of Bigger Fish who graduated from "Marujuana' high.
To: MadIvan
Ivan, you've just given ideas to the Louisiana State Legislature for new laws.
BTW: You have FReepmail.
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posted on
01/11/2003 8:55:27 AM PST
by
Sparta
(Statism is a mental illness)
To: MadIvan
In light of recent news and just for clarification...is Uganda a cannibal country, a vampire-fearing country, a starving country that refuses GMO grain, a murderously rioting country, a country that is killing its technicians and destroying infrastructure or is it just a regular country that still practices slavery?
To: JennysCool
Knickers!
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posted on
01/11/2003 9:04:47 AM PST
by
Happygal
(~(_8^(¦) Doh!)
To: Happygal
Knickers! LOL!
We call them "drawers" in this neck of the woods.
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posted on
01/11/2003 9:19:30 AM PST
by
wimpycat
(Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
To: Happygal
Reminds me of a saying my mother used say about the noveau riche: 'All fur coat, and no knickers'! *LOL*Or of a paraphrase of one I used to hear a lot as a kid:
Eenie, meenie, meinie, mo
Catch a knicker
She a ho
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posted on
01/11/2003 9:37:49 AM PST
by
Migraine
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