No Miah culpa for killing “only a bird”.
Stories that begin with the words, “You couldn’t make this up,” abound, I know. But this one has that extra something: swanism.
It began when a gentleman whose home overlooked West Shore boating pool in the seaside town of Llandudno, North Wales looked out of his window and:-
saw Miah, a former restaurant owner who came to Britain from Bangladesh 40 years ago, rolling around on the grass with the swan’s wing on the ground next to him.
The alarmed gentleman called the police who duly arrived to find 52-year-old Shamshu Miah with blood on his clothes and feathers in his beard.
They confronted Bangladeshi-born Miah, who told the police: “I am a Muslim, I am fasting, I had to eat.
“I was hungry, I had to eat the swan. I killed it, I stabbed it.
“I did nothing wrong, it was just a bird, I needed to eat.”
It is forbidden for Muslims to eat during daylight hours over the Islamic month of Ramadan.
One of the officers told Miah it was illegal to kill a swan because it was the property of the Queen, to which Miah replied: “I hate the Queen, I hate this country.”
Psychiatric reports indicated Miah was not mentally ill at the time of the attack. But we must be, to abide with Miah for 40 years.
Posted by allotmentkeeper on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:06 | #
There’s a statue of Lewis Carroll’s Alice at Llandudno’s West Shore. Wonderland’s queen would certainly have demanded “off with his head” - our queen wouldn’t dare say publically that if he hates Britain he should jolly well leave.
I prefer Wonderland. Modern Britain is truly “the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!”