No Miah culpa for killing “only a bird”.

Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, 23 November 2006 08:46.

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.

Tags: Humour

Comments:

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!”

Posted by stari_momak on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:05 | #

All swans belong to Allah (pbuh)

Posted by rustymason on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:30 | #

I wonder if we’ll hear from the animal rights people on this one? I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Posted by Alan (UK) on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:47 | #

Did it just occur to him that he hated this country or has he hated it for 40 years? If he has hated it for 40 years I wonder why he remained here? Perhaps he only stayed so he could dine on swan. It just couldn’t be that, due to the welfare state, he has been sitting on his idle posterior for 40 years, could it?

Posted by Al Ross on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:50 | #

Imagine, Razib’s having a cousin in Wales.

I do hope that this Miah person observed the Muslim rules of Halal slaughter.

UK really ought to have a deportation penalty for foreign pests like him, but I suppose that would erode the country’s famous reputation for ‘fairness’.

Posted by JB on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:49 | #

Rusty Mason:

I wonder if we’ll hear from the animal rights people on this one?

when feminists start noticing the disproportionate rapes committed by non-white immigrants

Posted by Gunga Din on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:40 | #

Speaking of alien Bengalis who have no business in the West, Razib of “Gene Expression” has recently unburdened himself about what he thinks of his readership:

“most of you readers are worthless, my only interest are those who give me the information i seek.”

After writing that rather revealing comment, Razib then has the chutzpah to say the following to one of his readers:

“i wonder where this sense of offended entitlement comes from?... do you fucking know what grace and etiquette are?”

Amazing.

Then again, when you are the “Popper of the 21st century”, one can do as one pleases.