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Woman chops head off a man who allegedly tried to attack her

Police say woman then paraded the head through a market in northern India

Police arrested the woman after receiving calls from frightened witnesses
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- A woman chopped the head off a man who allegedly tried to attack her and then paraded the head through a market in northern India, police said Friday.

Police arrested the woman late Thursday after receiving calls from frightened witnesses who reported a blood-soaked woman holding a severed head was walking through the village, said police officer Ram Bharose.

The woman, 35, told police she had gone to a nearby forest to cut grass for fodder for her cattle when a man attacked her from behind.

"In a bid to save her dignity she beheaded him with a sickle," Bharose said, adding that the woman had bite marks on her neck and cheek.

The woman also told police that the man had been harassing and stalking her for three months and she had no regrets about killing him, he said, adding that she would probably be charged with culpable homicide.

The incident took place in Makkapurva village, some 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.


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Am I missing something? I mean, the guy arguably got what he deserved, but I don't see the humour in this story.

She swung the sickle to high! You know that ole saying: You mess with my sickle , I'll cut off your pickle?

I see the humor in it from the standpoint that the man got exactly what he deserved and this woman who was so sick and tired of being stalked and harassed by this creep not only beheaded him, but paraded his decapitated head through the marketplace!
If more women had this attituded, there would be less rapes as men knew that they were willing and ready to fight back!

PS- but I also support the death penalty!

Why is that funny, cupcake? Are you toking up first thing these days?

Aww, I know the humor is a little tacky but I think it's hiLARious when I read in the news that some woman, female clerk, elderly grandpa or grandma sticks up for themselves! So often these type of people get taken advantage of and when they have the guts to deal with it it is funny/cool. The way she did it was also funny; ya know..how often in America do you behead someone with a sickle? LOL!

>>The way she did it was also funny; ya know..<<

No, I really don't know.

pi- perhaps I speak alone, but I fail to see the thought behind of combining the worlds most talented reggae artist with a mediocre band such as UB40. UB40 is simply a half-hearted attempt at reggae by the British. I say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you want to focus on Bob's habits, might I suggest "African Herbsman."

I'm sorry you don't..

I love it, cups. Johny Cash

I still don't think killing is funny.

When I hear stories like this one, or a little old lady pulling a 9mm on a punk who broke into her house, I will admit that I believe they probably got what was coming to them (the guy, or the punk in the previous instances). I guess like Sirius I don't see the humour in killing, though...

No,no,no, I didn't mean I saw the humor in the killing part! Sheez, you guys! Throw away your rickety walkers with the tennis balls on the bottom and lighten up...cupcake rolls off to bed in frustration leaving a trail of chocolate crumbs...

>>The way she did it was also funny; ya know..how often in America do you behead someone with a sickle? LOL! <<


Try again, Goldilocks, what was it that you didn’t think was funny?

Steven I thought libs like you thought killing was funny.The libs in the US sure do.They kill thousands of babies a year.

Mr. Gomez

>>Try again, Goldilocks, what was it that you didn’t think was funny?<<

Oh alright if you insist! It WAS funny I haven't quite sunk to such lows yet that I enjoy killing, but sometimes when it's someone who deliberately plans to abuse, torture or kill someone and the tables get turned on them, then I do feel like justice is served.

>>The way she did it was also funny; ya know..how often in America do you behead someone with a sickle? LOL! <<

>>No,no,no, I didn't mean I saw the humor in the killing part!<<

>>Oh alright if you insist! It WAS funny<<

I can’t help you, cups, if you yourself can’t decide what warrants a laugh and what doesn’t.

>>but sometimes when it's someone who deliberately plans to abuse, torture or kill someone and the tables get turned on them, then I do feel like justice is served.<<

Obviously, then, at least we know you reject one of the ten commandments.

For the love of pete, let her alone! Different things hit people differently at different times. Big deal!

>>For the love of pete, let her alone!<<

Why, RM. Why should I leave her alone? She’s the one who said it.

>>but sometimes when it's someone who deliberately plans to abuse, torture someone and the tables get turned on them, then I do feel like justice is served.<<

Now she thinks abuse and torture are acceptable. I’m just trying to find out what she really believes

"I’m just trying to find out what she really believes"

What difference does it make? What do you care? Leave her alone.

Both of you, cupcake is not a baby.

I really doubt if she needs you two warming her bottle.

No, she just needs a sleeze jackass to shutup and leave her alone, now get.

Simmer down, dad, there's no need to get all worked up. These are just words, remember?

Why are you so angry, Nas? If a person voices an opinion on open forum am I not allowed to ask a question

Neither does she need your flirtatious/pet-name/ridiculing yet ego stroking comments EVERYTIME she posts something. You are Devilishly playing with her mind.


You need to be very carefull with him Cupcake. He seems to be obsessed with you and has one goal in mind, namely to draw you away from your beliefs. And for what reason? Ponder it deeply.

I think I said out loud what alot of us have been thinking for quite some time.

>>I think I said out loud what alot of us have been thinking for quite some time.<<

Try not to think too hard, Doyle, you might hurt yourself. I am honored, though, that I occupy so many of your thoughts. Hopefully they have been a comfort to you

>>He seems to be obsessed with you and has one goal in mind,<<

Let’s look on the positive(at least for Nas and RM) side here, should we? If what you’re saying is true, Allah help us! at least I’m probably not gay.

>>at least I’m probably not gay.<<

Probably not? Now who's being indecisive?

>>Now who's being indecisive?<<

If I woke up tomorrow and discovered I was gay, cupcake, would you still talk to me? I sure hope you would.

I know this much, if you told me next week that you suddenly realized you were a lesbian I’d still talk to you.

People are people to me, cups. As long as they aren’t hurting others I accept them.

>>If I woke up tomorrow and discovered I was gay, cupcake, would you still talk to me?<<

I dunno...I might have to get out my sickle...


Just kidding!

>>Obviously, then, at least we know you reject one of the ten commandments.<<

I have never said I was a good Christian, have I? I would be the first one to tell you I am a poor work in progress.

>>I have never said I was a good Christian, have I?<<

Cupcake, is there another kind?


>>I would be the first one to tell you I am a poor work in progress.<<

Maybe you are already a success and don’t know it. Maybe you are a good person and god has absolutely nothing to do with it. Maybe you should give up a belief in God altogether. Have you ever considered that?

>>Maybe you are already a success and don’t know it. Maybe you are a good person and god has absolutely nothing to do with it. Maybe you should give up a belief in God altogether. Have you ever considered that?<<

Sirius, I have considered there being no God, but it just doesn't work for me because I know. The knowing isn't a feeling or emotion, but a connection that I know is reality. The times in my life when I have had a close friendship with God, there is a happiness along with it that isn't dredged up by something I have made up. Have you ever extensively studied medical books and how the body is made and all the amazing, intrinsic little parts that all work together perfectly to create what we think of as "normal" function? It didn't just happen. I personally know two people who are solid, reliable individuals who have seen and experienced Satan and the evil that surrounds him and I have felt it myself so I can't explain him away, either. I have sometimes thought that it would be really nice to be able to reason them both away and just grab the happiness in life I can and only have to live a decent life but that seems a little empty, too. Just life..that's all. Nothing else..no higher power that I know hears me when I pray because there is..just that connection...no complete feelings of peace and rest and love when you feel Jesus so close you know if you reach out you will touch him. Not being able to ever see the two little babes I miscarried. It seems a bit bleak that way. Not wanting to work through all our problems and stresses in life on our own isn't a sign of weakness because sometimes (usually) it is much harder initially to let go and let God take over.

Just my two bits, since you asked, and don't think in any way I am trying to "evangelize" you! I am not that way and we all are entitled to believe what we wish.

That’s quite the paragraph you’ve written, cupcake. It appears that you are so certain there is a God that you can say “I know”. If you are absolutely certain beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is a God then you should probably embrace that certainty and do what you think is necessary for your own peace and happiness. If that means staying a Holdeman and following all their rules and regulations and peculiar ways that you so often seem to question, then do that. If you are so certain there is a God and if this God is as good and powerful and perfect as I assume you believe he is, why can’t you just ask him if you should stay in the Holdeman church, attend some other church or simply skip church altogether? Do you think you are not praying earnestly enough for him to hear you or do you think that he is not speaking clearly enough for you to understand? Cupcake, why is your god such a mystery? To me, any God worth his salt would not make every decision so complicated. Plus, look at what your God has done. He’s created temptations and then tells humans not to yield to them. He’s allowed Satan (whom I don’t believe exists either) to infiltrate the very creatures he has created and then tells these creatures to resist the same. What a jerk, cupcake, your God is a class act. And then, to top it all off, if you do yield to these tempting morsels that God has allowed, he will torture you for eternity. Your God runs a hodge podge operation, cupcake. If that’s the kind of God you want bow to, babe, go for it. Worship enough for me, too, okay?

Cupcake wrote: " Sirius, I have considered there being no God, but it just doesn't work for me because I know. The knowing isn't a feeling or emotion, but a connection that I know is reality. The times in my life when I have had a close friendship with God, there is a happiness along with it that isn't dredged up by something I have made up."

Excellent description of a relationship with God. And yet, it is not like a tow rope or telephone wire; it is by faith. For this life, God has set our connection to Him, to be by "faith". This is a firm belief and "hope", not a hope we doubt, but as a positive unrealized expectation for the hereafter. In this life, we experience the connection by the Holy Spirit, a real connection, but still by faith which itself is invisible.

"Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God; who has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee." 2 Cor. 1:21-22

Not to be misunderstood that our faith is only for the hereafter. Faith here produces a satisfying life of love, joy and peace.

>Do you think you are not praying earnestly enough for him to hear you or do you think that he is not speaking clearly enough for you to understand? Cupcake, why is your god such a mystery? To me, any God worth his salt would not make every decision so complicated. Plus, look at what your God has done. He’s created temptations and then tells humans not to yield to them. He’s allowed Satan (whom I don’t believe exists either) to infiltrate the very creatures he has created and then tells these creatures to resist the same. What a jerk, cupcake, your God is a class act.<


Actually, I don't think God is a mystery but I need to explain that when I go through all this frustration and questioning that it isn't God's fault that I am confused. I know very well the confusion is brought on by my unwillingness to listen and do what I know he wants me to and also my resistance to his leading clouds my vision and dulls my hearing and then I flail around in how many directions and say nothing is clear. I get rebellious about what other people say and do instead of just laying it down and leaving it and then life is all about MY feelings and MY desires and what I want to do and the two just don't work together. As soon as I can get all of myself out of my mind and pray earnestly, He never fails to come through. I don't believe God makes anything complicated. We complicate it. But I do think sometimes he wants us to work through something because we are stronger for it when we come through it.

You seem a bit bitter at God, Sirius, for not believing he exists.

Cupcake, if you would care to glance again at what I wrote, you might realize that I was referring to the god that YOU believe in. If I DID believe in a god and if he DID create all these things that humans are supposed to resist and if he DID loose satan down to the earth that he (allegedly) made so lovingly and then allowed satan to use these very things to tempt us, and then if we couldn’t resist those temptations we would burn forever in hell fire, then yes, that’s a God that is a vindictive God and not at all a loving God.

Cupcake, does this accurately describe your God? If it doesn’t accurately describe your God, could you please point out how I have inaccurately described him?

And just what are these things that you feel you must lay down? I highly doubt whether you are committing any crimes or breaking any laws of the land. I’m sure you are a kind person who tries to see the good in your fellow human beings and would never intentionally harm another. Is it the Holdemans, cupcake, that you aren’t sure about? I will admit if that’s all you’ve ever known and your whole family is there and your social structure is almost 100% dictated by the Holdemans it could be a daunting task to cut yourself off from all that.

How about this, cupcake, why not try forgetting about God altogether for awhile? Why not just try being the good person that you are and not consume yourself with all these things that some humans toil with such as what will happen to me if I have a television in my house or will I burn in Hell if I don’t wear a head covering? Why not, cupcake? It might be just the thing you have been looking for.

First of all, God didn't create all the things that tempt us. He made all things good and for men to enjoy in their pure state. It is men and women that have taken the things meant to be pure and twisted them into impure and evil things that drag society down. Most things that Christian people as a whole try to stay away from are not things God made.

I'll add more later as I have time.

And what, little-miss-I-know-there’s-a-god-and-he-created-everything-good, do you suppose causes men and women to twist these good things into “evil” and “impure” things?

Would it by any chance be satan?

Oh, wait a minute, that’s right, your God created satan.

Keep trying.

Nah, I'll quit. I really don't think this conversation will go anywhere, anyway, since I think you are more interested in tripping me up than in what I really think.

Suit yourself, it’s your thread.

LOL, siriusly, why try to see each other's views? Obviously we will never convince each other.

We’ll see. I think, given enough time, you’ll see that what I say makes some sense. I’m not into immediate gratification, cupcake, I’m a patient man. Just be honest with yourself. If you are, eventually things will line up for you.