Lions save girls from captors

In Ethiopia, kidnapping has long been part of the marriage custom, a tradition of sorrow and violence whose origins are murky.

The United Nations estimates that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where the majority of the country's 71 million people live.

WTF is wrong with these people? I understand they still in the stone age, but damn, that is just plain effed up.
 
[/QUOTE]WTF is wrong with these people? I understand they still in the stone age, but damn, that is just plain effed up.[/QUOTE]


I'm sure the un human rights council will find a way to blame the United States.:rolleyes::barf:
 
Ok...settle down and let's not turn this into a political issue. Remember..this is the Community Forum and your politics are to be left on the doorstep before you walk in. Capische?
 
When my daughter was a baby, we had a huge old grouchy male tomcat that would sleep by my daughters crib and would become very defensive when guests came in the house. As she got older, he'd follow her from one room to the next never losing sight of her...cats are cool :cool:
 
kidnapping has long been part of the marriage custom,
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That's the origin for "our" customs of marriage too. Best man helped kidnap the bride, after a month of honeymoon it's assumed she was by then impregnated so the brides family had litttle choice but to go along with it. We've just had several hundred years of "refinement and ceremony" if you will.
 
He said that police had caught four of the men, but were still looking for three others.
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Hopefully they find the three others in many little piles of lion Dung. :mad:

Lions are even cooler than I thought. :D Its good to see a happy ending to such a messed up situation.
 
I was under the impression that the best man was exactly that - the "best man" in the village so he was the protector of the bride to prevent a rival village from taking her.

And honeymoon referred to the mead (made from honey) to be supplied by the father of the bride for a month (moon).

D.

DaveH said:
That's the origin for "our" customs of marriage too. Best man helped kidnap the bride, after a month of honeymoon it's assumed she was by then impregnated so the brides family had litttle choice but to go along with it. We've just had several hundred years of "refinement and ceremony" if you will.
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The explanation for the lions' behavior is not beyond belief. If they had eaten recently, they would have been less ferocious than curious and playful.

Last year, a well-attested story, with pictures, had a lioness in the wild adopting a young, abandoned antelope.
 
Most societies do not derive marriage practices from capture of the bride. On the contrary, the most wide-spread pattern is negotiation between the families. Customs circumventing this are the exception, and are generally indicative of a society under stress, where traditions are helpless in the face of the pressures destroying the economic or social base.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The explanation for the lions' behavior is not beyond belief. If they had eaten recently, they would have been less ferocious than curious and playful.

Last year, a well-attested story, with pictures, had a lioness in the wild adopting a young, abandoned antelope.
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Well, I will admit it is possible. Most storys about lion-human interaction end with "all that was left was the very top of the skull". The part that I find a bit hard to swallow is how the lions somehow knew the difference between victim and kidnaper and selectively chased off the guilty parties. :confused: Maybe they could put a few of those smart lions on the police force. :)
 
Whenever I hear stories like this I always think along the lines of "I wonder if the lions were saving her or saving her for later..."
 
TorzJohnson said:
Maybe they could put a few of those smart lions on the police force. :)
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We have the K-9,
now we need the fee-line --
the police are gonna get you
so their partners will have something nice to chew! :eek:
 
TorzJohnson said:
The part that I find a bit hard to swallow is how the lions somehow knew the difference between victim and kidnaper and selectively chased off the guilty parties.
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First of all, the kidnappers probably chased themselves away when they saw the lions coming. Second, even animals tend to react to small-and-wide-eyed the way they react to their own infants. Third, it' a good thing someone else came along, because the lions probably wouldn't have thought she was cute for long.
 
Guys, it's really not unbelievable at all. People don't taste very good. Healthy lions can easily catch tastier meals so they don't usually eat people. The kidnappers ran away because the lions might have been hungry enough or lazy enough to settle for convenience food, but as it turned out they weren't.

You might think it was a miracle or a tall tale if you don't know anything about lions, but in fact it was the most probable outcome of a pride of lions encountering a group of kidnappers. It would be nice if lions encountered kidnappers more often; far more victims would be freed than eaten.
 
Cougar Allen said:
Guys, it's really not unbelievable at all. People don't taste very good.
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Well, I don't know what people you've eaten lately, but I want to challenge you on that! (Maybe you just don't know how to cook...) :p

I thought it was a cool story. Whether completely true or not, it must have had some truth to it or no one would have mentioned it. It has been proven that mother animals will adopt all kinds of "other" babies if they feel that it is necessary, especially if they already have a baby/babies of their own. I think that's the most logical explanation.

~ashes
 
Cougar Allen said:
You might think it was a miracle or a tall tale if you don't know anything about lions
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You've almost got it right. Here's the correct phrase:
Cougar Allen said:
You might believe the story is true if you don't know anything about lions
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There, that's better. :D
 
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