| SirFozzie |
04-19-2006 05:38 PM |
Time for "Which Weird Story Isn't True?"
Time for another edition of.. What Weird Story isn't True? I post five Stories.. you try to figure out which of the five I made up...
1. The Nike company recently came to the rescue of devout Muslim women refugees in Kenya. The women, who were big fans of the sport of volleyball, could not play well due to the bulky hijabs that Muslim women are required to wear, which hindered their playing. Nike designed (and then donated) sleek hijabs that cover the skin and hair appropriately, but also permit much freer movement on the court. Nike is silent on its marketing plans, but worldwide, the number of Muslim girls and women of prime sports-playing age is huge.
2. A 47 year old man approached two uniformed police officers in Tampa, Fla., in March to ask their opinions of whether the substance he had just purchased for the crack pipe he was holding was indeed cocaine. After examining the pipe, the officers suspended their then-current investigation of a burglary and put the cuffs on the man, and arrested him for drug possession.
3. A devout Hindu family in Iowa City, Iowa, was unsuccessful in a lawsuit asking to overturn the city's approval to convert a old factory complex into a meat-processing plant, less then a mile from where the family lived. The group claimed that by slaughtering cows (which are called Aghanya - that which may not be slaughtered, and can be sacred in the Hindu tradition), so close to their home, that the city was endorsing the trampling of their religion's beliefs.
4. At a November meeting of the governing board of Provincetown, Mass., Selectwoman Sarah Peake raised a formal objection to the continued presence of the historical painting that graces the board's meeting room, though it is of a previously uncontroversial scene of Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact. Peake's objection was that there are no women in the painting.
5. The Christian Diocese of Mizoram in northeast India, which was established by Welsh Presbyterian missionaries who worked the area from 1840 to around 1960, announced in March that it would send a missionary back to Wales because it was clear that the Welsh are in serious spiritual decline, with less then 1 in 10 Welsh regularly attend services.
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