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Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante group, which said it was a car thief who had used witchcraft to change shape. A police spokesman in Kwara State has been quoted as saying that the “armed robbery suspect” would remain in custody until investigations were over. But another police spokesman told the BBC the goat was being held in case its owner claimed it. The belief in witchcraft and the power to change shapes is common in Nigeria. Police reform activists have condemned the “arrest”, saying it highlights the low education levels of many Nigerian police officers. Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper has a picture of the goat and reports that police paraded it in front of journalists in the Kwara state capital Ilorin on Thursday. But this was denied by national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu. “The vigilante group arrested the goat and took it to the police, then they told the media.” The next morning journalists turned up demanding to see the goat, he said. “But of course goats can’t commit crime.” IncompetentThe BBC’s Andrew Walker in Abuja says communities often rely on ill-educated and badly prepared vigilante squads to fill the gaps where the police will not patrol at night. Innocent Chukwuma of the justice reform group the Cleen Foundation, told the BBC that many Nigerian police officers were poorly educated. “There are officers who don’t even have a secondary school education, and the police have a big job to do in finding these people and getting rid of them.” He said in the past political leaders had allowed the police to be filled with incompetent and in some cases criminal officers so they could be easily bought to protect their own criminal activities. Police have also been unable to stop vigilante squads from lynching suspects before they could investigate, he said. Source: BBC News AMAZING! That is one awesome goat, I need him to be my sensei! XD ------------------- Originally posted here. Tags: nigeria, random, world news
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GUNMA ―A woman walking along a road in Ota City at 5 p.m. on Wednesday was hit by an oncoming car and then stabbed with a kitchen knife by the driver of the vehicle, police said Thursday. Kanai Mobara, 36, a nurse and resident of Ota City, was stabbed several times in the back but her injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The man stabbed himself in the abdomen, and was also taken to hospital, where he is in critical condition. Police believe him to be a 35-year-old unemployed man who lives near the scene of the attack. Mobara told police she had never met the man. found here~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ this has become, more or less, a place to paste random news articles from japan, ne? Tags: japanese news, random
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Man arrested for scattering hundreds of worms inside train in Osaka
Tuesday 25th November, 06:00 AM JST
OSAKA —A man was arrested Monday in the act of spreading hundreds of worms inside a train running across Osaka Prefecture, local police said. Manabu Mizuta, a 35-year-old company employee who is suspected of deliberately obstructing railway operations by his act, was quoted as saying, ‘‘It was fun to watch other passengers freak out when they looked at the creepy worms.’’ At the time of his arrest, Mizuta had about 3,600 worms contained in small, photographic film cases in his bag, the police said. The incident took place as the train was traveling on the Keihan line through the city of Neyagawa around 10:05 a.m. The suspect, a resident of Hyogo Prefecture, is believed to have scattered about 200 mealworms, the larva of the darkling beetle, a feeder insect for birds. original storyTags: japanese news, random
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Japan has some of the weirdest news stories. Here's one: By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer Fri May 30, 3:21 PM ETTOKYO - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing. ADVERTISEMENT Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday. The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months. One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed. "We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side." The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked. She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean." original article here. Tags: japanese news, random
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