Camel News

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Vallejo police arrested a Santa Rosa man who allegedly assaulted a camel Sunday at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and fled from park security personnel.

Christopher Allen, 24, was dared by a friend to enter the restricted area where the animal was kept and punch it, police said.

He accepted the dare and was detained afterward by security personnel, but he soon escaped and tried to run from the park with his friends, police said.

Vallejo police were called and located the suspects' car on High-way 37. They arrested Allen and the driver, identified as 22-year-old Chrissy Thatcher of San Rafael.

California

Idiots...

Dubai's crown prince paid $2.7 million for a camel during a desert festival celebrating Bedouin traditions in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, state-run media said Tuesday.

The festival also included a camel beauty contest, where thousands of owners strutted their animals in a bid for the top prize of finest overall camel and separate categories related to the age and color of the camels, in which features such as best neck, head, lips, nose, hump, legs or feet, are judged.

Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the son of Dubai's ruler, Sheik Mohammed, bought 16 camels for $4.5 million, including one female camel for $2.7 million, the state news agency WAM reported.

The price tag was unprecedented but it was not clear if it was an official record.

Dubai

Rich fools?

A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.

The woman was found dead at the family's sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland.

The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets.

The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg (336lbs) and had come close to suffocating the family's pet goat on a number of occasions.

On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel's desire.

It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour.

"I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing," the Associated Press news agency quoted Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory as saying.

Young camels are not normally aggressive but can become more threatening if treated and raised as pets.

Australia

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has likened the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region to a "quarrel over a camel" that has become an international issue.

Local leaders could have solved the tribal dispute if it were not for the economic interests of international powers in the region, he explained.

Mr Gaddafi is due to host peace talks between Darfuri rebel groups and government representatives on Saturday.

But another top rebel faction has just announced it will not attend the talks.

Ahmed Abdel Shafie - leader of the prominent Sudan Liberation Movement splinter group which represents the Fur tribe - said he was not going as the atmosphere was not "conducive" for success.

Some 200,000 people have died in the conflict and an estimated two million people have fled their homes.

Mr Gaddafi made the comments while addressing students at Cambridge University in the UK via video link from Libya's capital, Tripoli.

"You might laugh if I say that the main reason of this issue is a camel," he said.

"Africa has thousands of issues - they are about water, about grass - and Africa is divided into 50 countries, and the tribes are divided amongst so many countries, although they belong to each other.

"The problem we are having now is that we politicise such problems between tribes."

He said that in Darfur the issue had been politicised because "there are super powers who are interested in oil and other things".

He also said that the crisis had been prolonged by international aid agencies because the local population increasingly depended on the support it received and, therefore, wanted the conflict to continue.

Libya

That makes the whole situation easier to understand. Fight on!



Just thought I'd bring some serious news topics to the section today.

Comments?

 

[Aphrael]

The thoughts "unreal" and "just wrong" come to mind

 

[Nick333]

I was just wondering whats been happening with the camels lately.

 

[Pixie22]

"It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour."

what a way to go..

 

[vespax]

It is a fascinating topic that rarely gets covered in the mainstream media for some reason.

So when that australian family talks about their mothers death... how do they mention the cause? That camel was just too randy for momma!

 

[LancelotSA]

Just thought I'd bring some serious news topics to the section today.

Comments?

Ha ha love it! Still wondering what you do with that sexy camel after you have bought it for $2.7 mill... or does the Australian story perhaps provide us with an answer to this question?!?!

 

[Nick333]

As much as it must suck for your gran to be raped and murder by her pet camel, there has to be a part of you that wants to laugh.

Surely.