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Islamic Woman Nabbed For Wearing Belt Made Of Live Crocodiles
Some news stories are so funny there's little to do except present them for just about any of our readers who haven't chanced upon them. Here's one which demonstrates female Islamic dress will get even more frightening than it already is.

It appears that guards at a crossing at the Rafah terminal in southern Gaza pointed out that a Moslem woman appeared, despite her veiled face and loose robe, "strangely fat." They mustered the courage to approach the oddly shaped lass, despite the possibility that she might be outfitted having an unusually robust suicide belt.

more info being observed to a fault, lest some inadvertence lead to stoning or another alarming throwback, a female guard was entrusted to look at the woman - and discovered, to her dismay, that her examinee was actually wearing a belt comprised of three live crocodiles, each about 20 inches long.

The incident sparked panic at the crossing. "The policewoman screamed and ran from the room, and women began screaming and panicking when they heard," a spokeswoman for the European observers who run the crossing explained. When website calmed down, she said, "everybody was admiring a woman who is able to tie crocodiles to her body."

The woman, it turns out, was wanting to smuggle the reptiles out of Egypt to market them to the tiny zoo in Gaza or even to anybody else who might be interested in running a pet croc.

As you might guess, for the reason that male-dominated and sadly regressive section of the world, the woman confessed that she "was asked" to move the crocodiles. The reptilian items would be worth "good money" in Gaza, up to about $500.

At least, the people who trusted her with job had the foresight to tie the jaws of her cargo of crocs shut.

The errant animals were returned to the Egyptian side, without doubt much to the disappointment of the lady who was simply smuggling them and the men who outfitted her.

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