Islamic Woman Nabbed For Wearing Belt Made Of Live Crocodiles

Some news is so much fun there is not much to do except present them with one of our readers who do not happen to them. Here's one that shows the female Islamic dress can be even more frightening than it already is.

It seems that the guards at a crossing at Rafah terminal in southern Gaza have noticed that a Muslim woman seemed, despite her veiled face and loose robe, "strangely fat." They mustered the courage to turn to odd-shaped girl, despite the possibility that she could be fitted with an unusually robust suicide belt.

Decency observed an error, otherwise some errors lead to stoning or other alarming turn a female guard was assigned to investigate the woman - and discovered to her dismay that her examinee actually was wearing a belt consisting of three live crocodiles, each about 20 inches long .

The incident triggered panic at the crossing. "The policewoman screamed and ran out of room, and then women began to scream and panic when they heard," a spokeswoman for the European observers who run the crossing explained. When things calmed down, she said, "everybody was admiring a woman who is able to tie crocodiles to her body."

The woman, it turns out, attempted to smuggle reptiles out of Egypt to sell them to the little zoo in Gaza or to anyone else who might be interested in owning a pet crocodile.

As you may have guessed, in this male-dominated and unfortunately regressive part of the world, the woman confessed that she "was asked" to make crocodiles. The reptilian points would be worth "good money" in Gaza, up to about $ 500.

Anyway, they had guys who have trusted her with the job the foresight to tie the jaws of her cargo of crocs closed.

The stray animals were returned to the Egyptian side, no doubt, much to the disappointment of the lady who was smuggling them and the men who looked after.