Tales Of The Were-Goat
Here's a novel defense: kill your brother with an ax, then claim you had actually killed a goat. When the goat died, it transformed into the body of your brother.
The man, whose name wasn't released, offered police his explanation after his arrest on Tuesday in the death of his brother the previous day at Isseluku village in southern Nigeria.
"He said that the goats were on his farm and he tried to chase them away. When one wouldn't move, he attacked it with an axe. He said it then turned into his brother," Police Commissioner Udom Ekpoudom told the Associated Press.
Murder suspects in Nigeria, where many people believe in black magic, sometimes claim spirits tricked them into killing. In 2001, eight people were burned to death after one person in their group was accused of making a bystander's penis magically disappear.
Neat trick that last bit. The Lorena Bobbitt defense, Nigerian style. Anyway, when informed of the defense the accused man intended to use, the Nigerian prosecutor reportedly said, "He's got to be kidding".
(Yeah, tell me you didn't see that one coming!)
Crime, World news | Gaius Friday, 15 September , 2006
By Beachhutman, Friday, 15 September , 2006 @ 4:55 pm
Sounds like the pumpkin patch tale!http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-pumpkin-sex.htm