That Must Have Been a Pretty Dress

MAKKAH, 27 June 2006 — A fight erupted in a Makkah shopping center with five women keen on buying the same wedding dress, the daily Al-Nadwa reported yesterday. The smack-down started after two women came into a shop, saw a dress they liked, then asked the owner to hold the dress while they returned from perusing other apparel stores in the mall. When they returned to buy the dress, they found three other women admiring the item. An argument quickly devolved into a fight among the women. The dress was damaged when the women resorted to using it as a tug-of-war rope. Police had to be called in to intervene.