I am back home and back to my internet addiction 
For those interested in the post I wrote about a month ago regarding the horrible spammer, his lawyers contacted me and threatened to sue for defamation. All I need to do is lay a charge at the Commercial Crimes unit of the SAPS and they will charge him according to the ECT Act. I am also toying with the idea of sending my proof to the websites that he scraped to get my email address. They could sue for copyright violation
Anyway, check out these funky Marriage laws, Crazy:
Ever since the first man and woman were joined in marriage to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply — laws became necessary to maintain order in a civilized society. Many laws were enacted at specific points in history to respond to specific needs of that particular time.
A number of our current laws of marriage are deep-rooted, and have been modernized over the years to keep abreast of our ever changing society. However, there are still some on the books which have not changed with the times — yet still enforceable.
For instance, if you are prone to hastily act out of character after a few drinks, you might consider moving to Pennsylvania. Clergy in Pennsylvania can not perform a marriage ceremony if the bride or groom is drunk.
An allergy suffering husband in California can have his wife jailed if she doesn’t cook her dust cloth after using it. A husband in Tennessee can divorce his wife — if he leaves her with 10 pounds of dried beans, 5 pounds of dried apples, a side of meat, and ample yarn to knit herself stockings for a year.
Husbands in Hartford, Connecticut, you can not kiss your wife on Sundays, but you can in Halethorpe, Maryland — providing it lasts no longer than one second.
It’s safe to get married in Chillicothe, Missouri because they can’t throw rice at you. However, play it even safer and get married in Colorado — where no one can throw shoes at the bride and groom.
In Virginia, a man can curse and/or abuse his wife provided he does it in a low voice, but she’ll have to leave the house naked in Michigan if she decides to leave him — he owns her clothes and the law says he can follow her into the street and remove them.
Wives, here’s your chance. You can berate your husband in public in Dixie, Idaho, but if a crowd gathers, your husband can be fined. However, your marriage can be annulled if you entered into it on a dare — in Delaware.
For loving wives, it’s illegal to remarry the same man four times in Kentucky. Go to West Virginia where first cousins can marry — unless the bride is 55 years old.
In Lebanon, Tennessee, a husband cannot kick his wife out of bed even if her feet are cold; however, a wife can kick her husband out of bed without provocation. That doesn’t work in Florida because even if she does get mad — a wife is limited to breaking no more than 3 dishes a day.
For you wives in Owensboro, Kentucky, you can not buy a hat unless your husband has had the opportunity to try it on himself first.
In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a law states that a bride must remain married until her wedding gown has worn out. However, if she’s desperate to get it over with quickly, she only has to wait a month — then rip up her wedding dress.
In France, a woman was granted a divorce after she told the judge that her husband played the bagpipes, and made her keep time with a flyswatter.
In Greece, if a man is caught kissing his wife or any other woman in public — he can get the death penalty!
So you wanted to get married?
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Well I have just watched the rugby world cup and being born in England but living in South AfricaI found myself trying to figure out who I would support if I was interested in rugby. Its difficult to say but I figure I would probably support SA because no matter where I was born I know SA as home.
Not to mention that they just beat England in the final of rugby world cup by 15 - 3. It seems they were capitalising on Englands mistakes but a win by any legal way is still a win. So congratulations to South Africa, winners of the rugby world cup 2007.
I think that someone should fine the one english player for using really foul language in view of the television cameras though.
But I need to be getting to sleep now and I don’t want to make this too long because I have to use my phone until I get back home from house sitting.
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Maybe the title gets your attention, or maybe it doesn’t. It certainly got the attention of a multitude of people in the Gauteng area yesterday.The South African Weather service issue a thunderstorm warning yesterday morning for the greater gauteng area. They could not predict the exact location until closer to the time of the storm, but some enterprising person decided that they would embellish a little on the details of the warning.
I suspect the warning started off innocently, very similar to the warning issued today on their website: (Just found the actual warning http://www.weathersa.co.za/Pressroom/2007/2007oct08severeweather.jsp)
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| National Warning - Issued on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 16.00 |
| Very cold conditions are expected on the north-eastern part of the Eastern Cape and western interior of KwaZulu-Natal as well as southern highveld of Mpumalanga Province. |
”
Seems innocent enough, but it caused unbelievable chaos over Gauteng. By 3pm companies were closing doors, buildings had been evacuated, and ER24 emergency medical services were receiving urgent pleas from parents to rescue their children from school.
If anyone doubts the power of the social network mentality, this is a prime example. Millions of people tried to verify the warnings directly from the SA Weather service, however the servers were simply not capable of handling that amount of traffic and collapsed under the load. Unable to verify people decided to err on the side of caution and sent warnings via email and sms. I personally sent a mail to a number of my friends stating the following:
“Although the below mail is beautifully crafted to model a classic hoax mail, I have independently confirmed the story in the beeld (http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2197644,00.html) and thought you guys should be aware that abnormal storm activity is predicted for today.
Here is an interactive weather map, http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/map/interactive/SFXX0023?from=36hour_map_large&animation=true&zoom=5&interactiveMapLayer=sat, looks like we are in for some interesting weather. (See the clouds coming in from the east with a central…um, vortex like characteristic) Some people say tornadoes are a possibility, others deny that tornadoes will develop but that a severe storm is imminent.Unfortunately I was unable to verify this with the South African Weather service as their web server seems to be offline (possibly due to the million or so other South Africans trying to verify this story)”
As you can see in my mail, I mentioned that my Hoax alarm had rung while reading the mail. But it just looked so impressive, the Beeld article was confusingly laid out, the author had moved from one thought into the next and back to the previous thought which made it seem that tornados were possible. I also looked at the weather radar and saw cloud formations coming in over the ocean. Of course I now know that I don’t have a clue how to read weather radar
Well if you didn’t know it was a hoax, here is a confirmation from the SA weather Service stating that the warnings spread through unofficial (and some official news stories) were “wildly exaggerated”.
http://www.weathersa.co.za/Pressroom/2007/2007Oct08huricane.jsp
Well thats it for now
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