Category: News and Views
THREE lions rescued a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and guarding her until police and relatives tracked her down in a remote corner of Ethiopia, police said yesterday. The men had held the girl for seven days, repeatedly beating her, before the lions
scared them off and protected her for half a day before her family and police found
her, police sergeant Wondimu Wedajo said.
"They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest," Sgt Wondimu said. "If the lions had not come to her rescue then it could have been much worse. Often
these young girls are raped and severely beaten to force them to accept the marriage,"
he said. "Everyone thinks this is some kind of miracle, because normally the lions
would attack people."
Stuart Williams, a wildlife expert with the country's rural development ministry,
said that it was likely that the young girl was saved because she was crying from the trauma of her attack.
"A young girl whimpering could be mistaken for the mewing sound from a lion cub,
which in turn could explain why they [the lions] didn't eat her," Mr. Williams said.
"Otherwise they probably would have done."
The girl, the youngest of four brothers and sisters, was "shocked and terrified"
and had to be treated for the cuts from her beatings, Sgt Wondimu said. He said that police had caught four of the men, but were still looking for three
others.
ANTHONY MITCHELL
IN ADDIS ABABA, Associated Press
lol I posted this on here about 4 months ago
oh well....duplicate posts again!
hmm, I never read the boards back then. sorry Shawn. lol
I agree this was posted several months back at least they could try to keep up with the current stories, instead of lazily rehasing the same old crap.
On the 24th of July in fact is senile dementia setting in?
oops. noblin puts his foot in it again.
,br.
your ignoring blackbird. at least try to remember who your supposed to be ignoring or you run the risk of looking even more stupid than most of us already have figured you are. for anybody who is confused as to how goblin is still able to know what blackbird said even though he's apparently ignoring him, it's because he he reads the boards from time to time without logging in so that he can read everything that is said, while at the same time keeping up the pretense that he is ignoring people. pathetically laughable really but there it is..
my apologies for wandering way off topic by the way but i just felt the need to point out this stupid incongruity from our very own zone idiot.
heheheh Dan. The Goblin Bear has got a habbit of doing this, doesn't he? And I must admit, I didn't read the topic Shawn posted back then and found this really interesting! Sorry Shawn!
*sexy*
Yeah. This is quite interesting. It's good to see a story that had a good ending for a change. I know this is an old topic but I am sort of a new member and am still trolling through the boards little by little...
if this story is true, it is an amazing one. it has been shown that humans mimiking the sounds of animals, be it intentionally or unintentionally in this case, seems to overcome in the animal any fear of, or quell any agression towards the thing making the sound. If these lions did indeed protect this young girl, then good on them.