Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Synchronized Swim Team Drowns In Synch

(Hat Tip: Fark.com)

Which is totally cool, if you ask me. They get a perfect 10 for dedication alone.


The swimmers, ages 11, 12 and 13, had been in the Kenmore pool about 15 minutes when they began having difficulty, head coach Julie Abel said.

"One of them was hanging on a rope and a coach saw her slip underwater," team president Craig Penner said. "The coach jumped in and pulled her out, then looked back and saw two other girls on the bottom of the pool."

All the girls survived the routine and seem to be doing well.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Iranian Youth Rising Up?

(Hat Tip: The Jawa Report)

PajamasMedia is reporting Iranian youths have made a stand against the modesty police attempting to arrest a young woman. According to reports, such uprisings have occurred throughout Iran, with young Iranian rebels chanting slogans such as "You have put us on since 1979 until now!" (referring to the 1979 Iranian Revolution)

This is the story they tell: at approximately 7 pm on Saturday, February 23, the Ershad patrol, modesty police assigned to enforce clothing regulations, accosted and attempted to arrest a young woman at Goldis Shopping Mall, located in western Tehran, presumably because her dress was not sufficiently modest.

In recent weeks, the police squads charged with enforcing modesty have become more rigorous in their enforcement, with thousands of women detained, questioned, and arrested for violating hijab standards.

Instead of meekly submitting to her fate, the woman fought back. A young man - it is unclear whether he was accompanying her - came to her defense and joined her in fighting the police. In an attempt to subdue – and humiliate him - the police grabbed the young man and threw him into the garbage can nearby.

That was when the large crowd, predominately made up of young people, rose up against the police and attempted to liberate the young woman themselves.

Faced with a full-blown riot - complete with angry crowds with garbage cans being set on fire - the frightened police jumped into the van and fled the scene, except for one unfortunate officer who was left behind. The policeman was reportedly attacked and beaten by the mob.

http://pajamasmedia.com - Iranian Shoppers Riot Against Modesty Police


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