Boy marries dog to ward off tiger attacks

Yahoo! ^ | March 13, 2009 | Jatindra Dash/Reuters

[Loyalist]

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers, who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.

Around 150 tribespeople performed the ritual recently in a hamlet in the state of Orissa's Jajpur district after the boy, who is under two years old, grew a tooth on his upper gum.

[Loyalist]

The gay marriage crowd will be happy with it as long as he was married to a male dog.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, so far there has been no tiger attack, so this must be working ...

[valkyry1]

So are they going to expose him to tigers inorder to test it??

[concerned about politics]

The gay marriage crowd will be happy with it as long as he was married to a male dog.

LOL. That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the headline, too. The dog had to be male, or the marriage would be politically incorrect.

[P8riot]

These are the same idiots telling us that we need more gun control.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205560/posts

[nuconvert]

“the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.”

Well, that’s nice

[ALPAPilot]

Was Barney Frank involved in this?

[mamelukesabre]

The dog should be dead before the kid is old enough to even know what marriage is.

[Vermont Lt]

I had to read this to make sure that it wasn’t in Mass. Thank God our state hasn’t done anything “crazy” again....

[Non-Sequitur]

“the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.”

And when he's introduced to his future bride will he sniff her butt?

[DainBramage]

I hope its illegal to litter.....probably the lowest Ive ever gone

[P8riot]

And when he's introduced to his future bride will he sniff her butt?

Maybe, but before long he'll be able to sniff his own.

[MortMan]

Most men only THINK their wife’s a bitch.

[PGR88]

As long as it is a loving and committed relationship, who are we to judge?

(sarc)

[Daveinyork]

They could use him in an Arby’s commercial.

[Non-Sequitur]

Maybe, but before long he'll be able to sniff his own.

Not to mention licking his...well, maybe I'd better not go there.

[TexGuy]

An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog ... it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals

It seems perfectly logical. They should also wear colored socks, I think it wards off incoming meteors.

[bgill]

grew a tooth on his upper gum.

It's not like he grew a tooth out of his foot. What happens when he grows teeth on his lower gum? Egads, what if he grows 32 teeth? Are there enough dogs, cats, goats, and frogs to marry? Will he be responsible for their care and feeding? He'll have a zoo by the time he's 18.

[N. Theknow]

Marry a bitch and forget about seeing any p....

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

These "marriages" by that particular tribal community are nominal. There is no "consummation", and the kid will marry a tribal woman, when he grows up.


Couple of years ago, they "married" off a kid to a tree, for rain.


The Indian government has given more or less complete independence to the tribes, who are the only people allowed to reside in national forest reserves.

 

 

If you want to know more about India's aboriginal tribes, here's one of them:

 

Tribe shoots arrows at aid flight
 

By Jonathan Charles
BBC News, Andaman Islands

 

An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows.

There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out when massive waves struck their islands.

But the authorities say the attack is a sign that they have survived.

More than 6,000 people there are confirmed as either dead or missing, but thousands of others are still unaccounted for.

The Indian coastguard helicopter was flying low over Sentinel Island to drop aid when it came under attack.

A senior police officer said the crew were not hurt and the authorities are taking it as a sign that the tribes have not been wiped out by the earthquake and sea surges as many had feared.

The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is home to several tribes, some extremely isolated.

Officials believe they survived the devastation by using age-old early warning systems.

They might have run to high ground for safety after noticing changes in the behaviour of birds and marine wildlife.

Scientists are examining the possibility to see whether it can be used to predict earth tremors in future.

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Tribe shoots arrows at aid flight