A woman was attacked and killed by a lion while having sex with her boyfriend in Zimbabwe.

According to My Zimbabwe, the woman, identified as Sharia Mawera, was in a secluded spot in the bush near the northern town of Kariba when the lion pounced.

It is believed her boyfriend managed to escape, fleeing when the lion lunged forward.

"Unfortunately the woman was mauled to death by the lion, but her boyfriend managed to escape naked," a source told the news website.

The source said the man was a fisherman and his girlfriend worked at the local market.

The man, who was suffering shock, told police he and his girlfriend were enjoying some romantic time when the lion came from behind and roared.

After the man escaped and raised the alarm, rangers began a hunt for the animal, which is believed responsible for the disappearance of a local man over the weekend.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/south-africa/130306/woman-mauled-death-lion-while-having-sex-zimbabwe

Must have been good sex to not notice that a fucking lion is about to pounce.

When you're a lion eating girl is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away.

‘Penis snatcher' strikes fear with handshake

From the Daily Mail From: Daily Mail March 16, 2013 10:12

REPORTS of genital theft are a relatively common occurrence across West and Central Africa, scholars say.


Academics observing reports of penis snatching on the continent have previously deemed it an urban phenomenon - a manifestation of the anxieties that arise when a village becomes a city and rural people find themselves living among crowds of unfamiliar people.

So a U.S. anthropologist was 'intrigued' when she arrived in the tiny hamlet of Tiringoulou in the Central African Republic, to find two villagers claiming to have been the victims of genital theft.

Previous instances have been reported in crowded centres like Lagos, Nigeria, or Douala, in Cameroon.

Louisa Lombard, a postdoctoral fellow in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, said villagers in Tiringoulou told her of a traveller, upon arriving on a Sudanese merchant truck, removed two men's penises with a handshake.

The academic was told the stranger had targeted a tea seller in the market and a second man, she wrote in a report on alternet.org.

'After handing over his money, he [the stranger] clasped the vendor’s hand. The tea seller felt an electric tingling course through his body and immediately sensed that his penis had shrunk to a size smaller than that of a baby’s. His yells quickly drew a crowd.

'Somehow in the fray a second man fell victim as well,' she wrote.

Several eyewitnesses assured her the 'appendages did indeed shrink dramatically'.

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Wilbur Street, Greenacre? I remember it well. I remember riding my bike around Wilbur Street, and when I ran away from home at 10 I hid in the corner telephone box. I used to catch the bus to Lakemba when I missed the one from Roberts Road. Never a soul to be seen.
Roberts Road. We (the neighbourhood kids from Wilbur Street to Chaseling Street) used to play tennis on Roberts Road. All our street games were played on Roberts Road. We grew up on Roberts Road. Now it's a six-lane highway of murderous intent.
Roberts Park? Sure. That's where I used to play rugby league football for St John's Lakemba under-10s.
Garry Hughes played five-eighth and I played on the wing and Grahame Hughes was ball boy. We always had runaway victories there and we won the premiership – that was 1962. I can't remember any shootings at the time, but I believe it was the scene of one or two recently.
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Nouriel Park, Greenacre? Yes, that's where I played in the under-9s for the Greenacre Soccer Club and trained every Monday afternoon. We were undefeated champions and KO winners. The year was 1961. Can't remember any rapes happening there – only cut legs and the odd broken limb. I believe it was the scene of a horrific rape a few years ago.
Lakemba? Sure, that's where we went to the Saturday matinee at the Odeon every week and watched such pearls as the Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis and Ben Hur.
We always bought chips and scallops at the Greek fish and chips shop waiting for the bus, and a small Coke, if we could afford it. This was even before supermarkets, or traffic lights, on Punchbowl Road.
I remember Mr Hodgkins, the local produce store owner warning us of the terrors of the supermarkets while he neatly wrapped the quarter pound of butter he had just sliced. I worked for him for a while delivering his junk mail – sorry, advertising leaflets – and working for five shillings twice a week after school.
Greenacre was my home, but it has changed. Some say for the better. Multiculturalism was the justification of all things hard to accept. My parents reflected stereotypical attitudes of the time – all foreigners were "wogs", unless they were Asian. Asians were "dirty", they would say.
It's easy to say you grow out of such perverse racism, but not entirely. There are scars. Even as I tried to reason with my mother as a university student, I knew I was tainted, possibly forever.
When you see your homeland, which was what Greenacre was, turned into a minefield, or a battlefield, or a refuge of drug dealers, criminals, drive-by shooters and terror – you find yourself in a quandary. It's all part and parcel of the greater good, of the New Australia, of the emergence of alternative cultures – it's just a settling-in process.
Whatever the apologists say, it's traumatic to read about the new Greenacre where I had my roots. It's tragic to see things go so wrong.
The police are powerless. I've seen it first-hand. They are harassed and intimidated for simply doing their job. The Premier says we can have confidence in the police to apprehend the culprits of a recent murder in Wilbur Street. Even if they do, which is unlikely, as the local residents live in permanent fear of reprisals, can they stop the next shooting and the next?
Soon Greenacre/Lakemba will be an enclave of little Lebanon, with all the worst features transported from a failed country to a new one, one still proud of its tolerance. I am told time and again that tolerance is not weakness. A bit like saying appeasement is not weakness. But I'm growing more sceptical.
That was my home – the place where I simply couldn't imagine living anywhere else once – transformed to the place where I could never imagine living again.
I suppose once my generation dies out, everything the place once was dies too. And good for that, some would say.
For me, I moved to a safe haven on the north side – looking back not in anger, but in disbelief.
Peter Roberts was a Sydney history teacher before moving to Asia as an English examiner for the British Council.


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The mother of a man hacked to death with meat cleavers during a violent home invasion pleaded with his murderers to kill her instead, a Sydney jury has been told.

Four members of a gang, The United Brotherhood, broke into Kesley Burgess' home at Lurnea in southwest Sydney on July 1, 2010, attacking him with meat cleavers, the Supreme Court heard on Tuesday.

Mahdi Mir, 22, Mohammad Karimi, 25, and John Khoury, 32, have pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Burgess, as well as several other charges including armed robbery.
The crown alleges Mir was one of four men who entered the Burgess home, while Karimi waited outside.
It alleges Khoury helped plan the attack and supplied weapons, making him part of a joint criminal enterprise to carry out home invasions.
The jury was told that other men involved in the attack have pleaded guilty and some will give evidence at the trial.
Crown prosecutor Ken McKay said in his opening address the United Brotherhood had carried out a number of home invasions in an attempt to "shut down what they believed were drug dealers and take over the territory".
The court heard Kesley Burgess grabbed a "sword-like object" after the men forced their way into his home.
The men were demanding drugs and money, threatening to kill Mr Burgess's mother, Tracey Burgess, Mr McKay said.
"Persons in the group started swinging their meat cleavers at Kesley Burgess," Mr McKay said, adding the crown would allege Mir was one of them.
"I anticipate you will hear evidence that Kesley Burgess was pleading he had nothing, he had some drugs and that was all he had."
Tracey Burgess then saw her son lying under the coffee table with three of the men using their weapons on him.
"She herself pleaded with them to kill her," Mr McKay said.
The men left after Tracey Burgess threw a tin containing some cannabis at them, the court heard.
Mr Burgess died later in hospital after suffering severe wounds, with one of his wrists almost severed, and blood loss.
The trial continues before Justice Peter Johnson.

[The battle between supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths has escalated, with Coles using an elaborate tax haven structure to conceal its purchase of one of Woolies' most profitable stores.

Fairfax Media has obtained documents that reveal its arch-rival Coles is now the landlord of its supermarket in Sydney's Neutral Bay.

The move has blindsided Woolworths, which was unaware that one of its most profitable stores was bought by Coles for $40 million.

''This is a surprise, and it's not common practice by any means. I'm not going to commentate on what Coles' motivation is. That's for them to answer,'' a Woolworths' spokeswoman said after Fairfax Media informed the group.

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Coles concealed its involvement in the deal by using a $10 company ultimately owned in the British Virgin Islands - a tax haven - to purchase the 4282-square metre Sydney site.

Internal Coles documents show the purchase price was $40 million, a record price for a freestanding supermarket in Sydney. Coles is believed to have paid a premium of as much as 30 per cent above its value to secure the site.

Coles confirmed it had bought the property but declined to comment on what its plans were.

The lease on the Neutral Bay

location expires next year but can be renewed for 10 years. Under the terms of the lease the landlord - Coles - has the right to inspect Woolworths' sales records and the site.

Five days before the property was bought, a handful of Coles property executives were instructed to investigate whether the supermarket giant would open itself up to retaliation from Woolworths when their own property leases expired.

The analysis is believed to have flagged that 120 stores with turnover of $3 billion were potentially vulnerable. Each property was assigned a risk rating.

The supermarket giants have been locked in a vicious battle for market share since Coles was bought by listed conglomerate Wesfarmers five years ago. It has resulted in price wars including $1 a litre milk and steep discounts on bread, petrol and beer that have antagonised suppliers and resulted in an investigation by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.

The property fight is believed to have been sparked after Woolworths bought Coles' store in Katoomba in 2000 and then turfed them out in 2012 after 30 years in the spot.

Coles was forced to spend millions of dollars building a new centre down the road in an exercise that took almost a decade to complete.

A source said: ''It was a disaster. They ended up in an inferior location with less turnover and its competitor Woolworths now in the Katoomba catchment.''

Coles retaliated in late 2011 when NSW-based company Vanbridge put the Neutral Bay property occupied by Woolworths for sale.

Records show that Vanbridge bought the Neutral Bay site in 1992 for $12.27 million and sold it almost 20 years later to Sino Ace Investment.

Sino Ace Investment is registered to Bernard Chiu, a Sydney lawyer who listed a ''palatial'' home in Sydney's lower north shore for $13 million four months after the Neutral Bay deal with Vanbridge.

The company is ultimately owned by a similarly named entity in the British Virgin Islands.

When contacted to explain his role in the transaction Mr Chiu hung up twice and said, ''Contact the vendor.'' Vanbridge did not respond to requests for comment.

aferguson@fairfaxmedia.com.au



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