Taking things a little too literally, a Moroccan man was jailed for six years for selling customers dog meat instead of beef, a judicial source said Friday.
The man, who admitted mixing the dog meat with chemicals to conceal the different smell and color, was also made to pay a fine of 10,000 dirhams ($1,185).
A Casablanca court also sentenced four other men to between eight months and four years in prison for their part in hunting and shooting the dogs.
Last year in Egypt a butcher was arrested for selling donkey and horse meat disguised as beef.
According to reports at the time the butcher would pick up dead or sick animals from canals, swamps or garbage dumps and add a chemical substance to cover up the smell.
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Six years seems rather lenient
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six dog years, John
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When the Arizona Cardinals take the field in Tampa for Super Bowl XLIII, in their first-ever Super Bowl appearance, there will be an extra player on the field. You won't see him, but he'll be there nevertheless. And he'll play the entire game with his Cardinals.
His presence was felt as the Cardinals posted a surprising win in their playoff game against the Carolina Panthers, a game in which everything seemed to be in the Cardinals' favor. And his presence will no doubt be felt in Tampa, as the Cardinals, playing in the Super Bowl for the first time in team history, square off against the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team making its seventh Super Bowl start and hoping for its sixth Super Bowl win.
The extra Cardinals player on the field, of course, will be superstar and hero Pat Tillman, the patriot who suspended his NFL career and shocked fans when he walked away from a $3.6 million contract offer from the Cardinals to become an Army Ranger. He enlisted in the Army along with his younger brother, Kevin, after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Tillman is likely the most famous Cardinals player in the history of the team.
There will also be a very special audience for this game. Super Bowl XLIII will be broadcast to more than 230 countries, to a potential worldwide audience of more than 1 billion viewers, including military members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The special video linkup will allow soldiers in Afghanistan to watch the game from the Pat Tillman USO Center that was built in his honor at Bagram Air Base with funds donated by the NFL. Another group of soldiers will watch the game from FOB (Forward Operating Base) Tillman, in the mountains of Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, close to the place where Pat Tillman gave his life in defense of freedom.
So as the pre-game festivities of Super Bowl XLIII come to an end, after the national anthem and the fly-over by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and just before General David Petraeus makes the ceremonial coin toss, say a prayer of thanks for the life and service of Pat Tillman, and for all those men and women defending our freedom and our American way of life around the globe, and for their families. And don't forget to also say a prayer for the safety of the players in the game.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said, "[The NFL] feels that the 70,000 fans attending the Super Bowl this year should be cheering louder for the military than the two teams playing," he said. "It is, indeed, very important for the NFL to look for every opportunity to support the troops."
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Amen, and God bless all our troops in harm's way on our behalf. Ima rooting for the Cards (sorry, Dave D.), based on state proximity and Kurt Warner is a freaking great guy. Oh, and Pappy said he'd sinktrap me if I didn't.
/jk
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An oil spill from a crashed truck erupted into flames Saturday in Kenya, killing at least 50 people who were trying to scoop up free fuel, officials said. Abbas Gullet, secretary general of the Kenyan Red Cross, says "more than 50" people died after a crowd gathered around the crash in search of free fuel.
The crash was in Molo, several hours outside the capital, Nairobi.
Local newspapers have criticized the government for poor safety.
On Wednesday, a massive fire swept through a supermarket in downtown Nairobi, killing at least 25 people. After the supermarket blaze, the Daily Nation said Nairobi's 3 million people are served by just one fire station situated close to a traffic-choked business district. "Ours is a modern city with an 18th-century firefighting infrastructure," the newspaper said in an editorial.
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A family in Saudi Arabia revealed they were shocked to discover their Indonesian housemaid had used black magic on them to achieve personal gains, local press reported Friday.
The housemaid identified as Suma Rini said she cast a total of 55 spells, which resulted in some members of the family slipping into a coma, a boy being hospitalized and other members being afflicted with various illnesses and pain, the Saudi Gazette reported.
The Saudi national, who was not named in the report, described how the family realized there was something wrong with the housemaid when she visited their son in hospital and told his mother that the boy was possessed by Satan. The housemaid said she had read about sorcery, magic and conjuring up jinns while she was in Indonesia and said she could see in the boy's eyes that he was possessed, the paper reported.
The Saudi national said they began to suspect the housemaid was involved after she ran away in panic saying "everything had become dark" when the Quran was recited in an attempt to alleviate the boy, the paper said.
Rini was arrested after she was tricked with a fake check into confessing that she had cast the spells. Rini told the family although she knew how to perform magic but did not know how to undo it.
The authorities found the places where she had hid the spells and the paper reported that the housemaid had used pins, nails, broken glass, clothe hangers and symbols that no one could understand.
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Good grief.
"Too stupid to live" really should be a valid diagnosis.
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..Trouble is, I've been to the Magic Kingdom - Miss Rini is for the chop.
Mike
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This spectacular 1.474 gigapixel photo is of the inauguration. An incredibly detailed panoramic picture of the inauguration.
What makes this unique is the technology. Start zooming in an moving the focus and you will see minute details such as eyes open or closed. The details are simply amazing. Big brother indeed is looking out for you ... or is he?
Supreme Court Justice Thomas and three of the four trombonists of the USMC Band appear to be.... napping, but so was I.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
