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HAVANA, October 21 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - A horse and
cart were stolen in Yara, in the province of Granma. By the time it was found a
scant few minutes later in nearby Manzanillo, it had been butchered, leaving
behind only the skin and head.
As soon as Francisco Mora noticed his cart had been stolen, he borrowed a
similar contrivance and gave chase. On his way to Manzanillo, he came across a
police car and asked the officers whether they had seen his cart. They directed
him to a small street, across from the local jail.
There, Mora found the abandoned cart, and in the next street over, the head,
entrails, and skin of the animal.
"When Mora advised authorities of the theft, he was fined 500 pesos for
allowing the animal to be stolen," said Nelson Virelles, a local man.
Nothing unusual about this, according to Virelles. He related that a night
watchman recently fired two shots in the air as warning to two men who were
carrying a stolen TV set. The men fled, dropping the TV which was then restored
to its rightful owner.
But, said Virelles, "the night watchman will be charged for the cost of
the two rounds he fired during the incident."
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