One-armed bandits
I spent my 6 months working in an Afghan police station. One of the characters was Wali, the jailor. Wali's distinguishing feature was that he had only one arm, the other having been lost due to unspecified violence some years ago. He was a pretty useless jailor, but I preferred not to tell him so as he could easily have kicked my arse with his remaining limb.

One day they had a new prisoner in, so I went down with an interpreter to get his story. It turned out that the guy had been in a dispute with another local family over some boundaries. Rather than harrass the council, hire some lawyers or accept mediation, they two families decided to settle things in the local way: they shot each other up. Our hero had acquired a war wound as a result, which he decided to show us. Rolling up his trouser leg, he revealed the world's most pathetic scar - his adversary must have been using a bb gun, such was the puny size of the injury. Wali's response didn't need translating: rolling up his own trouser leg, his calf looked like someone had set their dog on it. "You think that's a scar? This is a fucking scar, my friend."

The guy didn't say much after that.
(Wasmaschine!, Thu 31 May 2012, 20:54, 2 replies)

anyway
we delivered the bomb.
(magictorch, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 10:15, closed)

Wali's a clever man
To be able to kick your arse with only one arm.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 15:04, closed)