The Worst thread ever turns to Tibor-land.
When Rava Asks You to Turn Out the Light...
Fri Apr 22, 9:09 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - A paratrooper in India bit off part of a colleague's nose after an argument over switching off the light, police said Friday.
The two soldiers from India's Eastern Frontier Rifles were alone in their barracks Wednesday night when Lance Corporal Bhupesh Rava lost his cool because his roommate wanted the lights on for a little while longer.
An enraged Rava, who had returned from daytime duty, attacked Sepoy Durga Lama, pinned him down and gnawed off his nose, police said.
"People came to Lama's rescue after hearing his shouts for help," said Ranvir Kumar, deputy commissioner of police.
Lama, bleeding profusely, was taken to hospital while his attacker stood in a corner with bloody lips, he said.
Lama told the police that he had asked Rava to "wait for five minutes" before turning the light out while he got dressed to go for his night duty.
Doctors operated on Lama Thursday to fix the bitten chunk of flesh back on his nose. Rava was arrested.
The Eastern Frontier Rifles is a state paramilitary force specializing in tackling a Maoist insurgency in the eastern state of West Bengal, of which Calcutta is the capital.
And for no good reason
Woman Breastfeeds Tiger Cubs
Fri Apr 22, 9:05 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
YANGON (Reuters) - Hla Htay has three hungry infants to feed these days -- a seven-month old baby boy and two Bengal tiger cubs.
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Three times a day, the Myanmar housewife goes to the Yangon Zoo where she breastfeeds the hungry black-striped, orange-brown cubs rejected by their natural mother.
"The cubs are just like my babies," Hla Htay told Fuji TV as one of the baby big cats suckled her breast.
"It's not scary at all," she said of the 45-minute feeds. "I needed to do something for the cubs because I felt really sorry for them."
Three cubs were born at the zoo in mid-March, but their mother killed one and refused to nurse the others. Veterinarians rescued the other two but had little success bottle feeding them.
"They had some difficulties sucking the nipple on the bottle. When we tried to get the cubs to suck a lady's breast, it was alright," said a veterinarian.
The zoo says the breastfeeding will stop by the end of April or when the cubs start teething -- whichever comes first.