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This has MusicaSacra written all over it !
Topic Started: Dec 23 2007, 02:26 PM (268 Views)
pianojerome
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100 people arrested for not having toilets in their homes.

Wed Dec 19, 9:40 AM ET

Local authorities have arrested at least 100 Ugandans for failing to build toilets in their homes in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed 8 people and infected 164, state media reported Wednesday.

"We cannot watch as people die (of cholera)," northwestern Bulisa district administrator Norbert Turyahikayo told the New Vision daily, justifying the arrest of Ugandans found to have huts with no pit latrines Tuesday.

Police spokesman Hassan Kasinje told Reuters the building of homes without proper toilets was forbidden in Uganda, though he did not know of the arrests.

"It is illegal ... but it is not an arrestable offence. Whoever arrested them is wrong," he said. "A health officer is supposed to instruct them to build or they can be cautioned."

In September, 70 Ugandans in the east were seized for the same offence. Many in remote villages lack latrines.

Cholera epidemics spread by poor sanitation are common.
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LWpianistin
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:o

Wow! Arrested for not having a toilet....

MS, where were you? You should have found that story by now. ^_^
And how are you today?
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pianojerome
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Of course, where are they going to poop and pee, if they don't have toilets? Especially if there's cholera going around?

It seems silly because we all have indoor plumbing, and we have come to expect it. It's very important, and not everyone elsewhere in the world has such basic sanitary devices.
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musicasacra
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LWpianistin
Dec 23 2007, 03:51 PM
MS, where were you? You should have found that story by now. ^_^

Napping and watching Inspector Morse DVDs. ^_^
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JBryan
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Any locale that defines a proper toilet as a pit latrine should not be surprised at a high incidence of cholera.
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George K
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musicasacra
Dec 23 2007, 06:09 PM
LWpianistin
Dec 23 2007, 03:51 PM
MS, where were you? You should have found that story by now.  ^_^

Napping and watching Inspector Morse DVDs. ^_^

Are you feeling better? :blush:
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LWpianistin
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musicasacra
Dec 23 2007, 07:09 PM
LWpianistin
Dec 23 2007, 03:51 PM
MS, where were you? You should have found that story by now.  ^_^

Napping and watching Inspector Morse DVDs. ^_^

Not allowed!

No excuses like tonsils out. You need to get back to searching for weird news stories! Pronto!

:P

Are you feeling better?
And how are you today?
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Radu
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pianojerome
Dec 24 2007, 12:26 AM
"We cannot watch as people die (of cholera)," northwestern Bulisa district administrator Norbert Turyahikayo told the New Vision daily

Of course they can't, they are addicted to "Survivors" !
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musicasacra
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George K
Dec 23 2007, 04:20 PM
musicasacra
Dec 23 2007, 06:09 PM
LWpianistin
Dec 23 2007, 03:51 PM
MS, where were you? You should have found that story by now.  ^_^

Napping and watching Inspector Morse DVDs. ^_^

Are you feeling better? :blush:

Not entirely better, but getting there. I did switch to liquid Tylenol for my daytime painkiller and am still on Lortab for my night time painkiller. Round the clock Lortab gave me an unpleasant side effect (which the surgeon failed to mention :veryangry:) which required six hours in the ER -- but I'm better now.

Tonight we're having a turkey dinner at my brother's and tomorrow we're having a roast beef & Yorkshire pudding dinner here. I'll be drinking Ensure. :(
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:hug: I hope you continue to mend, Dear. :)
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Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Frank_W
Dec 24 2007, 11:33 AM
:hug: I hope you continue to mend, Dear. :)

Thanks!

Just when I think I'm mending well . . . I sneezed today for the first time since the surgery. :o :hair: :weeping:

That hurt.
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OUCH!! :weeping:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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pianojerome
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musicasacra
Dec 24 2007, 04:51 PM
Frank_W
Dec 24 2007, 11:33 AM
:hug: I hope you continue to mend, Dear. :)

Thanks!

Just when I think I'm mending well . . . I sneezed today for the first time since the surgery. :o :hair: :weeping:

That hurt.

When I had my septum worked on a few years ago, the doctor told me I wasn't allowed to sneeze for 2 weeks.

He told me some techniques to prevent an on-coming sneeze, which actually came in handy years later when I almost sneezed several times on restaurant kitchen tables! :whome:

(I asked a couple managers in different places I worked what they would do if I sneezed on the food. One said he'd throw away EVERYTHING, even if it was at the bottom of a pile on the other end of the table. The other said she'd just throw away the top couple layers in the area where I sneezed, and leave everything else.)
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