Thursday, January 10, 2008
Scouts in Action
A 15-year-old scout stopped a man from stabbing the Maldives President with a kitchen knife yesterday by seizing the blade.I wonder if this will make the Scouts in Action feature in Boy's Life. Come on, you know you remember it.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Gayoom, who was unharmed in the incident, later paid tribute to Mohamed Jaisham, who was wearing a green scout uniform with scarf and woggle as he foiled the attack by wrestling with the man and grabbing the blade, sustaining an injury to his hand.
The attack took place on the northern island of Hoarafushi, which with 3,000 residents is one of the most heavily populated of the 1,200 islands that make up the Maldives. Mr Gayoom had been meeting supporters after the inauguration of a renewable energy project.
"He was shaking hands with supporters, when a young man came and tried to stab him," said a presidential spokesman, Mohamed Shareef. "He was saved by a boy who moved in the way and tried to grab the knife and suffered a serious injury to his hand. The President was not hurt, but the knife did catch his shirt. It was definitely an assassination attempt."
3 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Thu Jan 10, 06:41:00 PM:
"Come on, you know you remember it."
Sorry, I was looking at the naked women in National Geographic.
By 
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Thu Jan 10, 07:19:00 PM:
I don't know much about the Maldives, or it's medical system and competency, but ... in one of the stories about that Scout's actions they described the hand injury as pretty serious. So although they stitched it up, hopefully the kid didn't suffer a permanent injury to a tendon or something, meaning, let's hope the President saw fit to make sure the kid got proper medical care.
As for National Geo ... my bro and I stayed in for the paper drives that funded our trip to a national high adventure area, which was way cool. Thru the paper drives, we built a pretty good porn collection. Who needs pix of naked africans when you can go straight to Playboy, Penthouse, Oui (remember that one?), etc.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Thu Jan 10, 07:36:00 PM:
I'm older than you, Spikemeat. Penthouse and Oui didn't start publishing until years after I left the Scouts.
When I was in the Scouts, Playboy was a virtually unknown magazine that sold for fifty cents at the local drugstore. The drugstore owner let me look at it each month for free. The only similar magazines at the drugstore were Nugget and a special publication introducing Jayne Mansfield.
Boys' Life and National Geographic were both at the school library. The only thing I remember from Boys' Life was a cartoon of monkeys making cookies under a sign that said, "Our products untouched by human hands."
