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| YESH!
WE TOLD YOU SHO BEFORE! (HIC!)Sri
Lanka has highest number of alcohol consumers in world - Dr.
Sisira Kodagoda from Nandaratna Rajapaksa, Ambalangoda Central special correspondent (Daily News 9th Oct 2002) Sri Lanka has achieved a position as the country which has the highest number of alcohol consumers in the world. Problems of alcoholism have reached such gigantic proportions that official statistics in 1999 confirmed that for every one lakh of persons in Sri Lanka 25,000 people had sought medical or surgical treatment for cirrhosis of the liver, said Dr. Sisira Kodagoda, President of the Sri Lanka Temperance Federation at a function held to mark the World Temperance Day, October 3 at Southlands Balika Vidyalaya, Galle.(Shura Merya...etc - Ed) Spotter: Kumaran |
| THE
DAM(N)BUSTERSThreat
to Sandy Dam (Daily News 9th
Oct 2002) A Sandy Dam built along the bank of the Ginganga by the Chinese engineers to prevent annual inundations in the Baddegama area is now facing danger. This is due to the illegal removal of sand by the Dam using Backo Machines by some influential groups. People of the area said that, the quantity of sand removed daily is more than 300 cubes. "No doubt, the Dam will be surely burst-open shortly", they said. They questioned, why there is no responsible authority to control this situation.(Because the Responsible Authority is probably responsible! - Ed) Spotter: Vinod Moonesinghe |
| Mothers
Wielding Umbrellas Cause Teenage Love Setback
One-shot umbrella attack claims life of youth (The Island 9th Oct
2002) By Lionel Adhikari, Attanagalla A one-shot umbrella attack launched by a woman on a 26-year-old youth cost the life of the youth in an incident over a love affair at Pingollawatte, Nittambuwa on Sunday. The deceased was identified as A. S. Asanka Sumanadasa. The suspect woman’s teenage daughter was reported to have been in love with the brother of the deceased. The girl who had gone for a private tuition class had failed to return home as scheduled. Angered over the delay, her mother accompanied by her brother had stormed the home of the boy friend to inquire whether she had gone with the boy. An argument had erupted between the two parties and the boy friend’s mother had assaulted the girl’s brother with an ekel broom. In turn the girl’s mother had launched an umbrella attack on the forehead of her daughter’s boy friend’s brother who had collapsed. Police said that it could be the first death recorded by a single shot attack by an umbrella. The couple had not returned to their homes even up to Monday, Nittambuwa police said. The girl’s mother and the brother were arrested...... Spotters: Vinod Moonesinghe/Kumaran |
| Bookies
and Tarts play cricket (?) against Police
Sunday September 29, 1:33 PM Players beat police in corruption
battle COLOMBO (AFP) - Crooked players backed by prostitutes and
sign language experts have beaten Sri Lankan police in the battle
against match fixing during the ICC Champions trophy tournament,
officials said. The anti-corruption unit of the International Cricket Council (ICC) held a meeting with police here to review the security measures at the tournament ending here Sunday, but the prognosis was not good, officials said Sunday. Police units had not bargained to battle women invited into the rooms of players in violation of the ICC's strict "access control" regulations aimed at ensuring that they did not come into contact with bookies. "The players had got wise to the police operation and they were giving the slip to guards deployed at the team hotel," a police official said. "Tackling the problem of women friends of players was a big problem." Police guards were deployed to escort players from the dressing room up to the boundary line to ensure they did not have a chance to exchange notes with book keepers and fix matches. However, a top police source said they suspected some players were using "sign language" to communicate with representatives of bookies at the stands located near the dressing rooms. "They could use their own cricket gear to pass messages to bookies," the police source said. "A batsman could show pad and that would indicate how he intends to get out -- with an LBW -- and for the bookies that information can be turned into cash." |
| Bravery
a la Sri Lankan youth
School boys attack lady principal Seven female students injured
By Senaka de Silva and Kurulu Kariyakarawana (Daily Mirror 24-Sept-2002) The principal and seven students of Thakshila Maha Vidyalaya in Gampaha were seriously injured when about 200 students of nearby Bandaranaike Maha Vidyalaya stormed the Thakshila class rooms and attacked the girls yesterday morning. Gampaha police said BMV students were alleged to have regularly teased and harassed the Thakshila girls before, prompting the Thakshila principal to make a strong complaint to the BMV principal. Apparently angered by this complaint, the BMV students had launched yesterday's mob attack. The BMV students armed with knives and rods allegedly smashed up the windows and doors and caused extensive damage to school equipment of Thakshila Vidyalaya during their rampage, police said. The assailants had also attacked panic-stricken girls and one group turned on the principal, attacking her with a sharp weapon. The principal and three girls were admitted to hospital with serious injuries. A section of the mob maintained a barrage of stone-throwing on the Thakshila building while their frontliners attacked the girls. Spotter: Ranil Bibile |
