Swine flu fears have forced officials at the Kabul Zoo to quarantine the only pig in Afghanistan:
I realize that eating pork is anti-Muslim, but Afghanistan honestly has just one pig in the entire country? How can they even be sure? There aren’t any stray pigs just sorta roaming around the border of Turkmenistan, occasionally stepping over the boundary and throwing the country’s pig population statistics way out of whack? The fact that they decided to quarantine the one pig even though it’s already in a zoo is just additional “wacky internet newz story” gravy.
The Reuters article about the Kabul Zoo then takes a turn for the crazy:
Shabby and rundown, Kabul Zoo is a far cry from zoos in the developed world, but has nevertheless come a long way since it suffered on the front line of Afghanistan’s 1992-4 civil war.Mujahideen fighters then ate the deer and rabbits and shot dead the zoo’s sole elephant. Shells shattered the aquarium.
One fighter climbed into the lion enclosure but was immediately killed by Marjan, the zoo’s most famous inhabitant. The man’s brother returned the next day and lobbed a hand grenade at the lion leaving him toothless and blind.
Yyyyeah, I guess if I were a pig, I’d rather take my chances in a country that may eat me for food instead of the country where warring soldiers shoot elephants and throw grenades at lions.
This guy knows what I’m talkin’ about!! (The pig, not the guy):
