TANUMA: Baboons are a common sight in the western region of Saudi Arabia, but what about drunken baboons? According to a report in Tuesday’s Al-Riyadh newspaper, a troop of monkeys went ape wild on a mountaintop near this village in the south, causing police to investigate. It turns out our simian friends happened upon a stash of distilled libations, and that’s when the party started. They managed to get into those bottles with the magic of opposable thumbs. Police believe smugglers from the south hid the stash, though perhaps only the monkeys know for sure who the culprits really were.
Newly weds celebrate in sickness and in health
JAZAN: In other summertime-marriage-season news, a wedding ended in divorce after the groom and the wife’s family got into a row over the nature of the music to be played at the ceremony. According to Okaz newspaper, the groom wanted a simple, traditional band of wedding drummers, but the bride’s mom insisted on a full arrangement, at a cost of SR10,000. The groom was so outraged when the band showed up that he declared his nuptials to the bride null and void and walked out of the wedding hall in disgust.
Wedding night spent in the ER
ABHA: Two broken fingers. That was the wedding-night “gift” given to a bride by her careless groom. According to Al-Riyadh newspaper, a groom accidentally closed the car door on his bride’s fingers as they were preparing for a trip to local hotel. Instead, they ended up in a local emergency room having their first post-matrimonial memory together.
