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Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2017

Weird news - Robbing missionary, getting beaten up

This is the kind of behavior that police forces are always in 2 minds upon. If you are set upon by 2 robbers who have a gun, fighting them can be dangerous since one does not know their state of mind. They could be desperate and liable to use the gun on the person they are robbing, and a simple robbery could turn into a tragedy, a murder.
However, when something like the below case happens, people are liable to applaud the person who defeats the robbers, such as the missionary in this case. He was picked on by 2 armed robbers in Brazil, and fought back, disarming them and sending them on their way (link to article):
A newly released dramatic video captures two would-be robbers in the streets of Brazil being undone by a Mormon missionary from the United States, who disarms one man and pummels another with punches. In the end, the apparent attackers flee on foot, leaving behind their motorcycle. “The missionary feared for his life and reacted,” Eric Hawkins, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, told The Washington Post late Wednesday. No police report was filed, he said.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Weird news: Brazilian couple discover that they are siblings

For those who have read classical Greek literature, the story of Oedipus is something that is very stark; inspite of all the efforts to prevent it, the son finally ends up marrying the mother. His family knew of a prophecy that warned of this, and they sent him away when he was a baby so that he could be killed. However, he survived and lived at another king's court; and the prophecy finally came true later when killed his real father in a roadside argument, and then, in another twist of fate, married his mother. When they found out the truth, his mother killed herself and he blinded himself.
In this case, the Brazilian couple were both abandoned at birth. They continued their efforts at individually finding their birth families, When the wife finally found her mother, she also learned to her horror, that her husband had the same mother and hence they were also brother sister. However, in this case, they have accepted their fate and decided to make a success of their marriage (link to article)
Adriana and Leandro, a Brazilian couple, both abandoned by their mothers in childhood, spent their lives anxiously searching for their mothers. They couldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams what their search would lead to. The couple knew that their mothers shared the same name, Maria, but thought it was just a coincidence. When Adriana decided to step up her search, she joined the 'Angel of Meetings', a daily broadcast on Brazilian radio station Radio Globo promoting the reunion of people with relatives and friends who are no longer in contact. Little did she know what was in store for her family.

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