Posted on 08/07/2010 3:05:35 PM PDT by george76
A Turkish immigrant claims New Zealand police cannot tell the difference between fighting and dancing after he was charged with assault while celebrating with his wife.
A judge has now told the police to go away and study a cultural Turkish video showing the kolbasti dance before deciding whether to proceed with the case.
Kebab shop owner Allaetin Can was arrested after a passerby reported he was hitting, kicking and strangling his wife outside their shop in the North Island town of Hawera.
But when he appeared in court, Can argued he and his wife Elmas were merely performing the traditional Turkish kolbasti dance, which, loosely translated, means "caught red-handed by the police" and ...
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Everything the Turks do is fighting.
Hmmm.
Well, I looked up a couple of Youtubes of Kolbasti, and I didn’t see anything that resembled choking or violent behavior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3wBQE9GHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7vw2XRpH4
Maybe Kolbasti has a mosh pit/slam-dance variant? :-)
***... he was hitting, kicking and strangling his wife outside their shop...
But when he appeared in court, Can argued he and his wife Elmas were merely performing the traditional Turkish kolbasti dance,***
Anything like the French APACHE dance?

Those idiot Westerners will believe anything.
Wasn’t there a skit on the Carol Burnett show where she’s being choked by her husband and her husband is pretending it’s only a joke?
Deport them both.
That first video had a bit of a country hoedown sound to it.
I think what this guy meant was "I been bustin' her up with a kielbasa but she kept gettin' loose" ~ and for that I'd check out the Polish sites first!
That country hoedown sound comes from the git-fiddle ~ same’s we have.
Check this from Yakutia (which is where the folks who invaded Japan circa 569AD cane from) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40eMdxZGlcA
Here’s a variation on a theme ~ also from Yakutia ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipUTs0k5uo
Goodness !
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