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An elephant helps clean up in Joplin.  Amazing.

A gambling kitteh that wins.

Butterflies redefine the meaning of “not tonight.”

The children listened.

A nursery school teacher in Mexico has been hailed a hero after a video showed her calmly instructing her pupils to duck and cover and sing songs as a fierce gun battle raged outside their school.  Video here.

BBC News – Bangladesh woman cuts off ‘attacker’s’ penis.

Police in southern Bangladesh say a woman cut off a man’s penis during an alleged attempt to rape her and took it to a police station as evidence.

The incident took place in Mirzapur village, Jhalakathi, about 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.

Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, told police that neighbour Mozammel Haq Mazi forced his way into her shanty and started assaulting her.

Mr Mazi, who denies the accusation, has been admitted to a nearby hospital.

“We will arrest him once his condition gets better,” police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC.

“She said she fought back and cut off his penis and brought it to our police station in a polythene bag to prove that Mr Mazi tried to rape her,” police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC.

“She has registered a case accusing him of attempted rape,” he said.

“It is quite an unusual incident. As far as I am aware, this is the first time that a woman has brought a severed penis to the police station as evidence.”

Monju Begum told police that Mr Mazi, a married father of five, had been harassing her for the past six months.

Someone must stand up for her…it might as well be herself.  Spouse is where?  Let’s send this woman to take care of this assclown.

Cretins.  Will anything ever change?

A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.

The allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published weeks after the March 9 protest. It claimed female demonstrators were beaten, given electric shocks, strip-searched, threatened with prostitution charges and forced to submit to virginity checks.

At that time, Maj. Amr Imam said 17 women had been arrested but denied allegations of torture or “virginity tests.”

But now a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice.

“The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,” the general said. “These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).”

Their excuse for doing this?

The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn’t later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities.

“We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” the general said. “None of them were (virgins).”

Heaven help us all.

Unclaimed pigs find a home in Jacksonville Florida.   Sometimes. we get good news.  YIPPIE!

H/T Nom.

Mason the miracle dog: Canine crawls home on TWO broken legs three weeks after being blown away in deadly Alabama tornado.

He probably didn’t have to walk 300 miles.

But it was certainly an ‘incredible journey’ for Mason, the plucky pup who crawled home on two broken legs after a tornado tossed him up and left him for dead.

The scrappy dog had been hiding in a garage in North Smithfield, Alabama, when the storm hit on April 27.

I’m glad he made it.  I feel for the others left behind.

‘For an animal to go through what he’s gone through and not to be ugly, to be happy for any companionship is remarkable,’ Mr Doster told Wavy-TV. ‘We’re honoured to be part of his recovery,’ he added.

The shelter has been inundated with pets, mostly dogs and cats that have been lost in the storms.

Particularly those left to die on chains starved to death in Japan.