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Aaaj (today) 22nd August 2007 (Sha'ban 9, 1428)
Colourful kal collectors of Kerala
Way back in the 1980's I used to travel in Kerala by road on business. In parts of Kerala one used to regularly encounter a person who looked like a bandit, to say the least, walking (or cycling) on the roads. He would have a cross belt with various lethal looking knives. Appearances can be deceptive and this "bandit" would invariably turn out to be just an innocent "kal" collector - a person who shimmies up coconut and palm trees and returns moments later with a pot overflowing with "kal" (toddy).
I chanced upon one such person today and amazingly it was at home! Here was this dude, Chandrappa, ready to pluck our coconut trees for a price. He looked a lot like the colourful kal collectors of Kerala, the only difference being that he had only one knife with him. This could be explained by the fact that here, in civilized Karnataka, one does not drink kal in copious quantities and hence the various knives required to cull the kal from the tree are not required.
I rushed to get a camera to capture Chandrappa in all his finery and even paid him Rs. 30 to pose for me! Here are some of his pics. Click to see the larger picture.
Deadly Dubai cops
"I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car"
So go the lyrics of a song that the Beatles sang way back when most of you weren't yet born.
I did read the news and it wasn't about a lucky cop who made the grade. It was about a cop who found a couple having illicit sex in a car...... in a car with tinted windows. Maybe its the tinted windows that made the cops see red.Tinted windows are a strict no no in Dubai. Sex in a car? An unthinkable un-Islamic thought. The cops, who were part of a CID patrol, got so agitated that they.......believe it or not........ pumped the car full of bullets! (Five to be precise). Apparently their aim was so poor that no one except the car got hurt.
The incidence seemed to have put some sense into the couple inside the car to such an extent that they rushed off to get married! I can quite visualize it, twenty years from now, when the beaming parents proudly tell their friends "Yes, we were making it out in a car quite illicitly when the cops came and started firing their guns. I fired my gun at the same time and that's how Adnan here (pats the hairy lad standing next to them) came into this world".
Read this story at: http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10148332.htmlVirtual reality sex - Dubai style
Looks like one can't deny Dubai cops their fun. Two cops have denied in court having had group sex with three women. The women also denied having sex with the cops. Looks like the whole thing took place in virtual reality.
Looking for something to pounce on in order to carry out a sentencing, the judge came to know that a whole lot of empty beer cans had been found in the flat the girls live in. The girls say that they, who are normally teetotalers, drank the 5% alcoholic beer out of sheer boredom waiting for nobody to turn up.
Read the story at:http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10148309.html
That's it till my next blog!
Stay tuned!
