Dog Weddings
Love it! Don't want those dogs breeding outside of marriage, otherwise the police will have to jail them....
Seriously do the police have nothing better to do in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka's culture ministry has strongly condemned a mass "wedding" of police dogs which they say offensively used traditional Buddhist symbols.
Police "married" nine pairs of dogs on a platform decorated with white cloth and flowers in a ceremony resembling a traditional marriage.
The "brides" wore mittens, shawls and hats while the "grooms" wore red ties.
Police have defended the "wedding" saying that it was done to promote the domestic breeding of sniffer dogs.
But in a statement they also apologised for their actions.
Culture Minister TB Ekanayake said that police officers had "contemptibly devalued" traditional weddings in a devoutly Buddhist country.
He said that he was incensed that the dog couples were placed on a Buddhist poruwa - a stage used in traditional Sinhalese weddings.
"This is not acceptable according to our cultural norms," Mr Ekanayake told reporters.
"We are people who really value out traditional weddings - which are only done at auspicious times alongside the chanting of stanzas and [other] poruwa rituals.
"The police have demeaned all this by conducting this in the Kandy - the city of the [famous Buddhist) Temple of Truth. I totally condemn this."
Mr Ekanayake said that such an incident had never happened before in Sri Lanka and that he had written to the the inspector-general of police asking him to conduct a full inquiry.
Congratulations!
It's a good thing, Do not hate DOGS
really weird thinking...why can not people utilize their brain
idle politician may be behind it .......
Police is expected to be more sensitive to the surroundings and cultural norms. They sure could have thought of something different or even imposed measures for promoting the domestic breeding of sniffer dogs without creating any unwanted confusions. This just goes to show how disconnected the police force is with the people.
Its childish but I guess the police wanted to attract the attention of the folks and promote their idea. But I can't understand how this can be offensive. If people followed certain customs in marriage, how could they get devalued if some dogs married with the same custom?
Illogical deduction by the cultural ministry.
Saw this on the news. They meant well, but the PR exercise went wrong :O(
Oh no they sure do, given all the turmoil and crimes occurring back there.But doing absurd stuff like the ones mentioned in the OP require much less effort and must be a whole lot more fun in their opinion hence the enthusiasm!