Tag: gurkhas

So, let me set the scenario for you.  You’ve got these forty or so bandits in India who decide to rob a train.  So they take control of the train in the middle of the night – the forty of them, remember – then stop it in the middle of the jungle.  Then they start robbing the passengers; needless to say, these forty robbers are all armed with various hand weapons.  So there’s a lot of larceny going on, here… and then a couple of bandits further decide that they’re going to go and rape one of the passengers.

And that’s when the Gurkha stands up.

If you can’t predict what happened next, you should be ashamed of your ignorance.  Harsh, but true. Continue reading Three Indian robbers discover novel suicide method.

…to be found here, the emphasis is on “think:” I know enough about guns to know that they’re not magical talismans that mystically control all situations, but pretending anything beyond that would only result in gales of horrified laughter from my father-in-law, who does know something about guns.

But I do know something about history, so I can comment about this:

You see that guy? Don’t mess with that guy.

Just… don’t.

Moe Lane

PS: The Gurkha situation is actually fairly interesting: the current government of Nepal – democratically elected Maoists, and that’s apparently not an oxymoron – is in favor of ending the recruitment of Gurkha regiments; they’ve backed down in the face of the disapproval of former Gurkhas, because You Do Not Mess With Gurkhas.  Something that the British government itself might contemplate, particularly when it comes to pensions.