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"A $250,000 compensation claim has been made against Saudi Arabia's oil giant Saudi Aramco for causing the death of a prized camel, local press reports say.
The case, to be heard on Monday, involves a three-year-old black camel which fell into a large hole dug in the desert to store crude oil.
The camel's owner is quoted saying the beast had been entered in one of the region's popular camel beauty pageants.
The compensation claim is based on the value experts put on the camel.
The owner, Abdullah Al-Saiari, said the she-camel was grazing in a desert pasture, about 150 miles (250km) west of Ahsa, when the accident happened.
"She was part of the Camel Beauty Contest," he said, the Saudi Gazette reported."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8311277.stm
"The three-year-old black camel was grazing in a desert pasture about 150 miles west of Ahsa when it fell into a large hole dug to store crude oil.
Now the owner, Abdullah al-Saiari, is suing the oil giant Saudi Aramco for £160,000 in compensation for his prized camel.
Mr Saiari told the Saudi Gazette: "She was part of the Camel Beauty Contest."
The court had already contacted the beauty pageant's administrators to assess the value of the animal. A panel of camel experts set the beast's value at SR1 million, or £160,000."
Source and further information:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/6349695/Oil-company-sued-for-160000-over-dead-beauty-pageant-camel.html
That particular camel was certainly worth a lot of money.
---- (ADDED: about camel beauty contests) -----
"They come from Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. They parade in front of the judges, fluttering their enormous eyelashes and rotating their rubbery lips.
The judges know what they are looking for: shiny hair, long legs, a massive head, firm ears, an arched nose, a high back and a large and symmetrical hump.
The winners take home brand-new luxury sport-utility vehicles, but something more: the honor of the family.
Despite being outlawed by Saudi Arabian clerics, the camel pageant in Abu Dhabi is a popular annual event lasting nine days, with feasting at the end.
As the nomadic lifestyle declines on the Arabian Peninsula, with more Arabs living in mansions than in tents, the romance of the camel, which sustained life there for thousands of years, persists."
Source and further information:
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/30/abu-dhabi-camel-beauty-contest/
Put the camel into a taxi and tell the driver to take it to a strip joint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbWEXb8TEsg&feature=related
Do your research so you don't get taken in by a stranger's holes.
Don't camels watch where they're going?
This Saudi prince is lucky that he was not tried in Saudi Arabia,don't you think?
by mike_70 on October 20th, 2010
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INVADE SAUDI ARABIA! It's the most repressive regime in the Middle East, and fosters terrorism. Agree? Disagree?
by Piano Player on April 24th, 2011
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Is Saudi Arabia as powerful as the US?
by ericliebler on April 23rd, 2010
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Out in the desert while taking a stroll, a beautiful camel fell into a hole. Her owner is suing (for two fifty K). The hole diggers though are refusing to pay! Your thoughts?
by palmagma on October 16th, 2009
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What is meant by "those from western nations who go to Saudi Arabia to work, ..... ...
by Jay_G219 on September 18th, 2011
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You're reading Out in the desert while taking a stroll, a beautiful camel fell into a hole. Her owner is suing (for two fifty K). The hole diggers though are refusing to pay! Your thoughts?
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Maybe Camel Cigarettes should introduce a new poduct line;
"Black Camel Cigars" with this late creature as its new logo.
by palmagma on October 17th, 2009
palmagma: thank you for your feedback. Those would be luxury cigarettes, I guess!
I added some information about the camel beauty contest.
by iwnit on October 17th, 2009