Nigerian police detain goat over armed robbery - Yahoo! NewsPolice in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.
"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said.
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Residents came to the police station to see the goat, photographed in one national newspaper on its knees next to a pile of straw.
ナイジェリアにて、強盗容疑でヤギが逮捕されました。
えー、って感じですが、自警団が警察にヤギを連れて行って、「犯行後に逃げようとして黒魔術でヤギに変身した強盗犯です」と告げたそうです。
クワラ州警察によると、自警団がパトロール中に強盗の現行犯に遭遇し、追跡したものの強盗犯がヤギに変身している間に一人に逃げられてしまったとのこと。
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ヤギに変身したメンバーが捕まって、変身しなかった一人が逃走したってことでしょうか？
何のために変身したねん！！！
ということで強盗が変身したとみられるヤギさんが警察に拘留中だそうです。
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現代でもナイジェリアの一部の地域では黒魔術の使い手はヤギに変身することができると信じている人がたくさんいるそうです。
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