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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:39 am Post subject: Angry farmers dump deadly cobras on tax office floor |
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This is not funny, but it is.
Especially if you have ever dealt with the kind of crouption that is in india.
I really dont blame them a bit as options for making a statement and fighting the corruption are very limited.
copied from:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/angry-indian-snake-charmer-dumps-cobras-on-tax-office-floor
Dec 01, 2011
Angry farmers dump deadly cobras on tax office floor
By Douglas Stanglin
USA TODAY
Two farmers, including a snake charmer, were so angry at tax officials in northern India that they dumped dozens of snakes, including four deadly cobras, on the floor of the tax office, The Guardian reports.
The snake charmer says the farmers on Tuesday were protesting alleged demands for bribes by officials in exchange for tax records in Basti, 185 miles southeast of Lucknow, the British newspaper says.
"Snakes started climbing up the tables and chairs," said a local official, Ramsukh Sharma, according to the newspaper. "There was total chaos. Hundreds of people gathered outside the room, some of them with sticks in their hands, shouting that the snakes should be killed."
A video shows office workers jumping on chairs as the 40 snakes slithered around the floor. There were no injuries, but forestry department personnel had to be called in to catch the reptiles, The Guardian says. |
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