Just a funny story Father Ben told us during supper last night. Many Filipinos are fond of cockfights and there is usually quite some money at stake during these duels. Lately, also children seem to have picked up an appetite for gambling and have developed their very own 'blood sport' using different species of spiders to combat in one-on-one spider fights. It works as follows: two spiders are put at opposite ends of a stick. They are then made to approach each other until they 'wrestle'. The first spider to fall off the stick or to 'throw the towel' loses the duel. Spider fighting has become so popular in rural areas that it has even triggered serious concern among education authorities. A ban has been imposed in at least one of the southern provinces of the Philippines. Education authorities are not only concerned about the ethics of spider fighting and gambling, but also about its effects on children's school performance. Apparently, quite a few children find hunting and training fighting spiders a much more interesting occupation than being in school. I wonder why...
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Mocht je ooit worden uitgedaagd tot een partijtje spider fighting, ik wil je met alle plezier een camelspider opsturen. De laatste tijd beginnen ze hier als paddelstoelen uit de grond te reizen. Vrij grote gele spinnen die iets schorpioenachtigs hebben en een bet hebben die naa het schijnt heeeel pijnlijk is.
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