Thread: Wales or Sudan?

$50? He wins the prize for the cheapest sinsot.

I think given the choice i'd have a goat over a sheep, but I'm only a quarter Welsh.

Shame there are no Pattaya City news - style pictures to go with this story.

we could have....

an image of the reconstruction of the guy pumping away

an image of Mr Alfalfa pointing in disgust

an image of the council elders discussing his fate

an image of the the 15,000 dinari spread out across a table

There is an Arab saying:

A woman for children
A boy for pleasure
A goat for ecstasy

Originally Posted by Gerbil

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi. "We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Quite possibly the funniest thing I have read today - forced to pay a dowry. Better yet, they are still together - a very happy couple I am sure!

Originally Posted by Gerbil

I captured and tied him up.

Right and in order to be with his newly wedded wife, he did this willingly....

I wonder how he can get divorced now.

At what point does milking become foreplay?

Originally Posted by danbo

At what point does milking become foreplay?

When it's a bull

I'm afraid the story has had a tragic ending

BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan's famous goat 'wife' dies


Sudan's famous goat 'wife' dies

Charles Tombe is refusing to comment on the affair

The best-known goat in Sudan has died months after being "married" to a man in the South Sudan capital, Juba, the BBC has learned.
Local elders ordered a man found having sex with the goat, later called Rose, to "marry" her last February.
"The idea was to publicly embarrass the man," says Tom Rhodes, editor of the Juba Post, which first ran the story.
The BBC's story of the "wedding" caught the public imagination and became one of the best read internet stories.
Rose, black and white, is believed to have died after choking on a plastic bag she swallowed as she was eating scraps on the streets of Juba.
'Sense of humour'
After the marriage, Rose had a male kid - but "not a human one" - Mr Rhodes said, hastily.
The "husband", Charles Tombe, said he was drunk at the time but has since refused to comment on the issue. The kid is owned by Mr Tombe.
Wow - what have we done? We have triggered a monster


Tom Rhodes
Juba Post


More than a year after the BBC story was first published, it is still picked up by various web forums and being emailed across the world. Recently it got more than 100,000 page views for five successive days.
Over time, it has received several million hits - making it historically one of the biggest-hitting stories the BBC News website has published.
A Google search uncovers more than 1m different web pages, based on the same story.
Mr Rhodes, a Briton who helped found the Juba Post in 2004, was shocked when he learned how many people around the world had read the story his newspaper had originally published as a short, light-hearted account and not even bothered to publish on its website.


"Wow - what have we done? We have triggered a monster," he said.
He said that he had seen that it occasionally returned in the BBC's "Most read stories" and was worried that he would have trouble with South Sudanese, accusing his paper of tarnishing the image of the region - now trying to rebuild after 21 years of war.
But he says he has not come across any such anger.
"It doesn't portray Sudan in a bad light - it shows the Sudanese have a sense of humour," he says, referring to the elders' original punishment.
He has, however, had people come up and say to him: "Oh, you're the goat man."
Mr Rhodes explains that South Sudan remains a conservative society.
If a man is caught sleeping with a girl, he is ordered to marry her immediately in order to save her honour and that of her family, he says.
This was the basis for Mr Tombe's punishment, after the goat's owner found him with his animal and complained to local elders. They ordered him to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50, at the time) and also named the goat Rose. Afterwards, he left with the goat, not quite hand-in-hand, more hand-in-hoof, to his home in the Hai Malakal suburb of Juba - and not in Upper Nile State as we originally reported.

He'll always have his memories....

I think there may be foul play involved as I note the mention of 'choking on a plastic bag'. Maybe they should call in the Thai police for advice? Still at least it didn't fall off a balcony, with it's hoofs tied behind it's back.