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April 23rd, 2007

No thanks, I’d rather just put up with evil

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

This week’s “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” award goes to some teachers in India, who it turns out were sprinkling cow urine on low-caste students to drive away evil.

And it gets worse. They did this urine sprinkling while the students were taking a test, wetting their faces and their answer sheets.  It made it kind of difficult to concentrate on the questions, and probably a little tough to grade the yellow answer sheets, as well.

Perhaps not surprisingly, parents complained and the teachers were arrested. Here’s the story:
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A worker displays an antiseptic aftershave made of cow urine at a stall in New Delhi in a 2005 file photo. REUTERS/B Mathur

3 comments so far

What a bunch of bull…pee.

- Posted by K

Mom, Dad! Don’t touch it. It’s Pee-vil!

Name that movie.

- Posted by fraggalicious

A sprinkle a day keeps the evil away.

- Posted by Lady Weasel

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