"Your mother was a hamster and
your father smelt of elderberries!"
— Monty Python
The
Quest for the Holy Grail
SIBIU (Romania)
— Pick up the latest copy of Romania Liberia or the Romania
Globe, and you may just happen to come across something like:
"I hope you go blind and your
teeth fall out, and you crash your car into a tree."
A Romanian man, desperate to recover
his stolen dog "Rexi", has offered rewards, published
newspaper advertisements and resorted to heaping curses upon the
perpetrator of the dognapping. Ananova reports that Rexi's guardian Gheorghe Ferencz pledges a substantial
reward for the return of the dog and adds that he would be prepared to
lift the curses if the thief returned the dog or could prove that Rexi
was being treated well.
But until then, Mr. Ferencz will show
no mercy. In addition to the cursing the crook's teeth, eyes, car
and tree, he also writes in one ad: "I hope the man who stole my dog never
finds peace and never enjoys his dinner until my Rexi is brought back to
me."
He told reporters, "As well as
being well-trained, Rexi is a friend, and I want him back. I will
continue to curse the thief with a thousand curses, and then some, until
my Rexi is returned to me."
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"Everybody wants to get into the
act!"
Business ain't so good for a witch doctor in a village near Bulawayo in Matabeleland, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). We added the dog.
(Photo: Paul Almasy / Corbis)
Mr. Ferencz retains high hopes that the
continued barrage of publicity will either reach the thief's conscience
or perhaps prompt someone to offer information as to the whereabouts of
Rexi and his captor.
I suppose all Romanians should be on
the lookout for a blind, toothless man who's looking for a tow truck, a
lift home and a decent cookbook.
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