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Sunday, 11 April 2010

Burka Death

Muslim woman was horrifically strangled when her burka tangled up in the wheels of a GO-KART.

The 24-year-old woman's clothing wrapped around a wheel axle as she raced around the track.
Other racers on the track near Sydney, Australia, said the garment quickly tightened around her neck and throttled her within seconds...

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Reminiscent of the death of Isadora Duncan, the free spirit who was breaking many of the taboos in the 1930's, decapitated by her scarf wrapped around the back wheel of the sports car in which she was travelling.

I wonder if the lesson here is to avoid extremes, either too much freedom or too much oppression can be bad for you.