with this ring i thee wed

I came across a bizarre piece that made its way to the NST World news section last weekend. This happened in Juba, south of Sudan.

In February last year, a man was caught shagging a goat. He claimed he was drunk when Rose caught his eye. How a goat would interest a man that way and why anyone would want to have sex with an animal is beyond my comprehension; under the influence or not. It is just plain sick.

In southern Sudan, a man is expected to marry a woman if he has sex with her. In like manner, Charles Tombe was ordered to pay Rose's owner a dowry and deemed to have married the goat. Reason? To save her honour. Yes, you read that right. A man-animal union. Everything about it is just so terribly wrong. Damn salah wan. It's a freaking GOAT. You know, them four-legged kind that bleats. Goats.

It made itself to the headlines recently because Rose died after choking on a plastic bag. Poor goat...

What is the world coming to? Why are people chucking common sense out the window?

Read it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6619983.stm