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DESERT FURY

Jodhpur greed.

HAPPY DIWALI!!!

we've been throwing up and not because we've been having too much fun, but i think the worst is over and we're on our way to Jaipur. Happy Diwali! wish me luck in not getting hit in the face by a firework. crazy india.

jeanne carmen on my heart

vintage babes with vintage guns

johnny mera naam

johnny mera naam, my new favourite film.

recovery

the footstep of god.

HARIDWAR [anna was sick in the nite]

Har-ki-Pairi Ghat

HARIDWAR

2005

'Nairobi - A 73-year-old man used his bare hands to tear out the tongue of a leopard that attacked him in Kenya and killed it, a newspaper said on Wednesday of an incident confirmed by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

The 73-year-old Daniel M'Mburugu was working in his potato garden near Mount Kenya in the centre of the country when the animal, apparently aggressive, hurtled from nearby grass and charged towards him.

"It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping. I froze for some seconds, then it dawned on me that death was staring at me on the face," he told the Standard Newspaper.

M'Mburugu, a peasant farmer, dropped the machete he was carrying and forced his hand into the leopard's mouth, pulling out its tongue in an act of self-defence, according to the report in the daily.

"A voice, which must have been from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand into its wide open mouth, I obeyed," he said, explaining that the leopard sank its teeth into his wrist, but would not let go.

As the struggle continued, M'Mburugu realised the animal's "breathing was belaboured", prompting him to keep pulling the tongue.

Villagers only responded when the animal lay dying and he gained instant status as a village hero, the paper said.

"Wardens said the leopard attacked the man because it was injured elsewhere. Wild animals are usually very aggressive and attack unprovoked when injured," said KWS spokesperson Edward Indakwa.

"Nevertheless, he was lucky," he added of the incident that occurred early this month.

Incidents of human-wildlife conflict in the east African nation are common, mostly near game parks and national reserves.'

september 11th

'Hanoi, Sep 11 (DPA) A tiger leapt out of its enclosure and killed a gardener at a private zoo in southern Vietnam, a police officer said Friday.
The tiger jumped over a two-metre-high fence and attacked three gardeners late Thursday at the Dai Nam Zoo in Binh Duong province, local police chief Thang Cuu Long said.

Long said the gardeners and the tiger had all been inside a larger fence that surrounds the inner enclosure and that the zoo’s tourist area had not been threatened.

“Actually, the fences are very safe with electricity around them,” Long said. He said he knew of no plans to improve the fences or to euthanise the tiger.

After a tiger escaped and killed a tourist at the San Francisco Zoo in 2007, a certification board concluded that the six-metre wall surrounding that tiger’s enclosure was more than a metre too short.

Officials at the Dai Nam Zoo believe the tiger might have been upset by a crane the workers were using to plant trees.

According to the news website VNMedia, gardener Nguyen Cong Danh, 47, was killed while co-worker Nguyen Thanh Giau, 21, was injured. Giau and one other worker escaped through a water culvert, it said.'

september 7th

'BHUBANESWAR (AFP) – A herd of elephants in India has forced 500 villagers to flee to relief camps after the wild animals killed at least seven people and trampled hundreds of homes, officials said Monday.

Angry residents blockaded a major highway last week to demand action against the marauding elephants, which have been causing chaos for more than a month.

The relief camps opened on Sunday near the villages of Simonbadi and Kirikutty, about 245 kilometres (150 miles) from Orissa's state capitalBhubaneswar in the east of India.

"We have housed over 500 people in two camps with adequate food and a medical team," local administrator Krishen Kumar told AFP after visiting the camps.

"Most people have lost their thatched houses, destroyed by the wild herd. We have the mandate to open more camps until the forestry department is able to dispel the elephants."

Orissa's forestry department said it was trying to steer the herd of 14 animals away from the villages.

"A team of 120 have been busy trying to push the elephants back to their habitat sanctuary. We are obviously worried about how to stop this herd from menacing people," an official who declined to be named told AFP.

Elephant attacks in Orissa have become an increasing problem as their forest habitat dwindles due to human encroachment.'