donkeys get a dye job and pose as zebras

[Amby 490]

GAZA (Reuters) - Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh.

With their long ears, drooping heads and sleepy eyes, the impostors probably would not have fooled the zoo's only lioness. But the effect achieved by the zoo owners' dye job looks not so bad -- to the unpracticed eye, and from a distance.

On closer inspection it resembles the classic striped convict suit of cartoon strips.

Nidal Barghouthi, whose father owns the Marah Land zoo, said the two female donkeys were striped using masking tape and women's hair dye, applied with a paint-brush.

"The first time we used paint but it didn't look good," he said. "The children don't know so they call them zebras and they are happy to see something new."

A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to bring into Israel-blockaded Gaza via smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt, said owner Mohammed Bargouthi. "It would have cost me $40,000 to get a real one."

Gaza's Palestinians are impoverished by their isolation under an Israeli embargo against its Islamist Hamas rulers, who refuse to give up armed resistance against the Jewish state.

Bargouthi's zoo charged an entrance fee of just $15 for a full busload of children.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnough...E5973NV20091008

[Nagishkaw 510]

[Peikko 1,575]

That's definitely a duh moment.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Seeing a potential future terrorist riding a donkey they think is a zebra gives me a chuckle.

[*JG* 2]

Ha ha.....that's just so wrong.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Did Nidal Barghouthi happen to read CS Lewis' Last Battle (final book of "Narnia Chronicles") before deciding on this?

(in that book, a power-hungry ape decides to use his donkey-flunky dressed in an altered lion-skin to fool other animals into believing Aslan has come, and that the ape must be obeyed as Aslan's mouthpiece).

Rather strange coincidence.

Edited October 8, 2009 by Saddle Bronc

[luckytxn 2,265]

What would be really wrong is if when they blow themselves up and they get to heaven and instead of the promised virgins they get mules dyed up to look like zebras.

[HYENA 4]

what an azz!

take off zebra bebe!

Edited October 9, 2009 by HYENA

[Ban Hammer 13,716]

What would be really wrong is if when they blow themselves up and they get to heaven and instead of the promised virgins they get mules dyed up to look like zebras.

or find out they are transvestites.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

What would be really wrong is if when they blow themselves up and they get to heaven and instead of the promised virgins they get mules dyed up to look like zebras.

[luckytxn 2,265]

What would be really wrong is if when they blow themselves up and they get to heaven and instead of the promised virgins they get mules dyed up to look like zebras.

or find out they are transvestites.

I think that would make them happy.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Have you guys eaten a Zebra?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Have you guys eaten a Zebra?

Disallowed in Gaza Strip (meat of animals related to horse can never be halal).