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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-10-06 03:04 PM
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Brave wife 'fends off' big tiger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5164624.stm

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A woman in Bangladesh armed only with an oar from her rowing boat fended off a Royal Bengal tiger which was attacking her husband, police say.

The lucky escape happened near the Sundarbans mangrove forest in the south-west of the country.

Eighteen-year-old Nazma Akhter and her husband Anwarul Islam, 25, were fishing for shrimp on Sunday in a canal on the fringes of the Sundarbans.
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Cyrano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-10-06 03:46 PM
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1. Would Pickles root for the tiger if King George was attacked?
Edited on Mon Jul-10-06 03:52 PM by Cyrano
On the other hand, if Pickles was being attacked, AWOL George would break the three minute mile.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-10-06 03:50 PM
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2. 18 years old. That's pretty amazing. I hope she didn't have to
cook that night. :wow:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-10-06 03:52 PM
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3. Why is "fends off" in quotation marks?
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yella_dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-10-06 03:56 PM
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4. Good thing she had that oar...
Talk about "up the creek without a paddle".
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-10-06 06:03 PM
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5. With a paddle this time
:D
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