The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up


Rulani was sitting in his kitchen eating cow dung. His enstranged wife set the house on fire. Rulani did not move a muscle. The fire became an inferno.The walls melted. Busi ran in,shouting, '' Get out! the house is on fire!'' '' I'm eating cow dung, Rulani said Busi ran out. Rulani kept eating cow dung even as the roof collapsed on him. He was never found, but the spoon was found, clean.

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