Firin' blanks

Today we have one of those stories that both shocks you, and makes you crack up laughing.

In Uttar Pradesh, in India, the government has a problem. They have a population explosion which is impossible to control, and a Wild-west type frontier society with a backlog of a half-a-million gun licences. So what can they do?

The answer, it seems, was pretty simple. For them at least.

They have decided to offer gun licences in return for male sterilisations. Two for a shotgun, five for a revolver. Strange idea, but not as strange as the poor people who work on rich peoples farms whose owners want a gun licence.

According to the above story, Jagdish Singh says "I was given a green pill that I was told wards off malaria. I don't remember anything else. My life is over"

Should have taken the blue pill, Jagdish.

Also it appears that Yasser Arafat is dead again. Hope he feels better soon.