NationStates Jolt Archive


Busing in Swaziland = WTF

Tyrandis
29-09-2004, 02:28
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/27/wrape27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/09/27/ixportal.html

Bus drivers in Swaziland have threatened to rape any female passenger seen wearing a miniskirt.

They have banned women from wearing revealing clothes on buses after three men were arrested for allegedly gang-raping an 18-year-old schoolgirl at a bus station in the town of Manzini.

Witnesses said the men - a bus driver and two conductors - shouted abuse at the girl for wearing a miniskirt.

When about 1,000 women demonstrated against the attack, drivers and conductors threatened to do the same again. One conductor said: "Women who wear miniskirts want to be raped, and we will give them what they want."

On one hand, it's funny. On the other, it's kinda disturbing.
Enodscopia
29-09-2004, 02:30
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/27/wrape27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/09/27/ixportal.html



On one hand, it's funny. On the other, it's kinda disturbing.

Thats weird.
International spies
29-09-2004, 02:45
Its not funny. Its totally screwed up.
Conductors that spew such crap want to be gunned down, and I will give them what they want. :sniper:
Opal Isle
29-09-2004, 02:48
conductors? Don't those guys normally drive trains?
Opal Isle
29-09-2004, 02:49
Its not funny. Its totally screwed up.
Conductors that spew such crap want to be gunned down, and I will give them what they want. :sniper:
Which is what makes you better than them.
International spies
29-09-2004, 03:01
Which is what makes you better than them.

Why thank-you. :)
Lunatic Goofballs
29-09-2004, 03:50
Perhaps someone like me ought to go down there, break into these bus drivers' houses while they sleep, chloroform them, dress them in miniskirts, and leave them in the bus lobby. ;)
Unfree People
29-09-2004, 04:08
Perhaps someone like me ought to go down there, break into these bus drivers' houses while they sleep, chloroform them, dress them in miniskirts, and leave them in the bus lobby. ;)Amen to that.


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