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A 70-year-old Iranian man has been sentenced to four months in jail and thirty whip strikes for walking his dog. The old man was caught in the act by police in a village close to Tehran.

In many Islamic countries dogs are viewed as ‘dirty animals’. For this reason walking your dog is forbidden in Iran. Only having guard dogs to protect private property is allowed.

The court decided the man is guilty of ‘disrupting public order’. Even to Iranian standards the punishment is pretty severe. Usually people who perpetrate the dog walking law are fined and have their dogs put in an animal shelter.

Oddly enough, not long ago President Ahmadinejad publicly bought four guard dogs. Because of this more dog owners risk walking their dogs openly on the streets.

In Lodz, the second biggest city in Poland, streetracing is now somewhat allowed at night. The police will cordon off some areas so the speed junkies can go their merry way.  This plan is intended to lower the number of fatal car crashes in the rest of the city, because the youngsters will race in a controlled area.

The police had to come up with some plan while illegal streetracing caused havoc throughout the city every night.

“We made an agreement with the organizers of the illegal streetraces, ” tells the leader of one of the official motor clubs in Lodz, “Now they race in closed off streets, while the cops can keep an eye on them. In exchange for this privilege they promised to stop speeding on other public roads in the city.

The Polish press rejects the plans. They say the government should not give in to the demands of ’street racing scum’. 

A music teacher in the German district of Niedersachsen will probably be fired. This is the case because he ordered his students to sing a Nazi song.

The teacher is an employee of the Gymnasium in Delmenhorst. It all happened two weeks ago when he told his pupils to sing the battle anthem of the Hitlerjugend, ‘Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran’, and he ordered them to sing it with dedication.

Apart from singing the song the students also had to bring the Hitler salute.

The Secretary of Culture in Niedersachsen thinks it is important that students are being taught about the use of music in propaganda. ” But “, he declared. ” this has to be done with a level of sensitivity.” 

China announced on Wednesday it will ban Scooby Doo, Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones and other western cartoons from television to protect the Chinese cartoon industry. Chinese news agency Xinhua reported this today.

Starting May 1st all foreign produced animations are banned form Chinese television screens between 5pm and 9pm. Co-productions of Chinese and foreign producers will need a special license to be broadcasted during primetime. 

In 2007 China produced and televised more then 101.900 minutes of animated pictures. This was 23 per cent more then was televised in 2006.

The measures are intended to prevent foreign competition, especially from Japan. Other television shows, like realty TV, are also prohibited from screening during primetime.

The Chinese government further advises TV stations to only broadcast ‘ morally inspiring television shows‘ from now on.

                                                        Bugs Bunny is banned

“John Rambo is a pitiful man and suffers from a mental illness.” This is the official statement of the military junta in Myanmar (Birma). They are ofcourse referring to the new Rambo movie, featuring Sylvester Stallone. In this new episode Rambo goes on a rampage in Myanmar.

The military dictators in the Asian country have ordered all media to publish an article which ridicules the new Rambo flick.

This is reported by Irrawaddy, a prominent newsmagazine reporting news on Myanmar.

In Rambo IV, our hero has to free a group of Christian missionaries who are held hostage by Myanmar troops.

The junta also calls John Rambo a terrorist and a puppet of the American government. “He is a man who never laughs, he is aggressive and plain mad, ” the article says.

Illegal copies of the new Rambo IV are already for sale on the streets of Myanmar.

                            John Rambo, mad puppet who never laughs