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Cow drowned into the sea for being impregnated by human
Thu, 10/23/2008 10:59 AM | Bali
(JP/Alit Kertaraharja)
Villagers from Julah in Tejakula, Buleleng, tow (see photo) a pregnant cow behind a boat into open sea as part of a local traditional ritual.
The cow, which is five months pregnant, was thrown out to the sea about 3 kilometers from land Monday. The villagers believe the animal was impregnated by a village elder.
During the ritual the man, who was caught red-handed having sexual intercourse with the cow two months ago, joined the boat trip in order to throw away his clothes to to symbolize him discarding his sins.
Julah customary village head Ketut Sidemen said the ritual, called gamya gamana, or freak weeding, and had been conducted there for generations. The decision to perform the ritual was made a local residents meeting.
In line with customary regulations, the perpetrator, identified only as PS, 70, was sanctioned to fund the expensive ceremony, which aimed to cleanse him of any bad influences.
Luh Ketut Suryani, a professor and activist, deplored the sancation against PS.
She said drowning a cow was baseless because sexual intercourse between a human being and am animal could not cause pregnancy due to the different chromosomes and genes of the two.
"The cow is not guilty, why shoud it be drowned? Why don't just use a symbol like what was done by the perpetrator?" she said.
Suryani's said she was concerned dealt with the financial situation of the owner, who lives below the poverty line.
"The cow, which has a high price, had to be thrown away. It will be a pity for the owner, who is already poor and is now forced to lose his priceless belonging." -- JP/Alit Kertaraharja
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Chaos (not verified) — Tue, 06/30/2009 - 2:16pm
If the pregnancy had been true, and left to term, it could have produced a minotaur.
Poor cow being drowned for what a sick old pervert did to it.
Mattie.b (not verified) — Thu, 05/14/2009 - 7:35pm
hahahahahahaha! "got im red handed"
Money Honey (not verified) — Wed, 04/22/2009 - 4:06am
Ha ha ha wow this is sick! It's bad enough the cow was impregnated bya human but c'mon being drowned for it. It's a shame what people do. I hope this guy's penis has a whole lot of milk up in it!
GOT MILK!!!!!!
Pandu Truhandito (not verified) — Thu, 03/19/2009 - 5:59pm
"The cow is not guilty, why shoud it be drowned?" - that is so true
Sg (not verified) — Fri, 01/30/2009 - 5:58pm
Did anyone ask the cow if this was consensual sex? If the old guy was 70 and the cow was old enough to bear offspring perhaps what these two did in the privacy of their own barn is no one else's business. Still the drowning of the cow is a very mooooving story.
B. DuPuis (not verified) — Thu, 01/29/2009 - 11:07pm
In heat during pregnancy??? Ummmm no! And, oh yeah, besides that, that man is DISGUSTING!!!! It wouldn't matter if the cow was in heat, that is so disgusting I'm seriously about to vomit right now!!!!!
R-T-B (not verified) — Wed, 12/10/2008 - 2:52pm
To be fair, there is no evidence that the cow was raped... It may have been in heat for all we know, in which case it would have gladly accepted a sexual advance from just about anything. Regardless, forcing this ceremony on the cow was wrong, esspecially considering you can't impregnate a cow.
Poor thing. :(
Npk (not verified) — Wed, 11/26/2008 - 1:59am
While this is plain stupid and sad, many of the people commenting on this are the ones that eat beef and the cow is not treated very humanely before being cut up and packaged. So when you talk about castrating the man and all other rubbish, bring a change in yourself too.
Rosalie (not verified) — Wed, 11/26/2008 - 12:04am
people are very sick in this world and getting worse,what are they thinking? its got to be the devils taken them over.
im sick over this.
Harrysugiarto (not verified) — Tue, 11/25/2008 - 7:33pm
what's all the fuss about the cow being drowned in to the ocean
I'm sure many of you self righteous people eat MEAT
so don't try to post a comment trying to patronize us as a whole nation like we're some barbaric
so unless you're a PETA activist don't try to preach about no animal cruelty it's not like it happens everyday
and FYI not all of us crazy and deviant like that
it's just a single deviant bastard
and for all of those patronizing westerner, try not to forget that there's also a porn industry in the west that involves animals that's generating millions of dollars so don't try act morally superior...okay and still if you don't like it here just LEAVE it's a simple solution