h/t C: It's shocking when life is taken away in a flash through what amounts to nothing more than perhaps some carelessness, or just an accident of life ... and now death, though their poverty is thought to have played a role.
They'd only been married a year.
Charles Tombe shot to fame last year when he tied the knot with Rose.
Mr Tombe and Rose are believed to have lived happily ever after until her life was cruelly cut short.
The story, which became one of the world's best read tales, began in Juba, southern Sudan, in February last year when ....
Poor dear choked ... on a plastic bag.
RIP Rose
the BBC reported that the then owner of the goat, Mr Alifi, was awoken in the night by a strange noise.
Walking out of his traditional hut, he was confronted by the sight of Mr Tombe and Rose in a passionate embrace.
Today the Times reported that Mr Alifi said: 'When I asked him "What are you doing there?" he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up."
When Mr Tombe was brought before a council of elders he claimed he was drunk when Rose caught his eye.
He was ordered to pay Mr Alifi a "dowry" of 15,000 Sudanese dinars - about £25 - since he was considered to have used the goat "as his wife."
In the same way a man is expected to marry a woman if he has sex with her in southern Sudan, Mr Tombe was deemed to have married Rose.
However, despite a happy marriage money was tight and Rose died after swallowing a plastic bag as she scavenged for food on the streets of Juba.
Jaysus, Dan. You are too mean. You do realize this will send GlobinStamford into a spiral of depression for a week.
Posted by: Phoenix | Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:33 PM
my favorite expression......."in the bag bitch."
Posted by: Cindi | Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Maybe he was practicing safe sex. The ACME bag was a condom?
Shit, I need to get laid more.
Posted by: Cindi | Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 12:18 AM
I'm pretty sure I had a comment about the goat thing, just can't remember what it was.
Posted by: Buzzy | Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 01:51 AM
Well, you do realize this is the fault of Christianist imperialist America for importing plastic to the Sudan, right? Though I suspect we can blame some of it on the litterers, too. There's never a crying Amerian Indian Chief around when you need one these days.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 03:09 AM