New York Post, Monday, August 19, 2019nypost.com19Weird
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BUTShe dressed to the nines,
and then got 86’ed.
A student at Springville
HS in Alabama said her se-
nior portrait was wiped
from the yearbook — be-
cause she wore a tuxedo for
the photo.
Holley Gerelds said wear-
ing the black velvet, V-neck
top female seniors usually
don would have been “kind
of humiliating” for her.
“It’s what I’m more com-
fortable in,” she said of the
tux.
A North Carolina man
was found dead, bloodied
and wrapped in Christmas
lights inside his home last
week — but authorities say
the death wasn’t suspicious.
The man’s dead cat was
found inside his freezer —
but the Wake County Sher-
iff’s Office said that’s
doesn’t raise any alarms, ei-
ther.
They think the man had a
stroke and fell on top of the
pet, killing it, and that his
son kept the kitty in the
cooler, “to preserve it.”
Well, that explains it.
A hungry hothead in Paris
shot a waiter at an eatery —
because his sandwich was
taking too long to prepare.
The 28-year-old server
was hit in the shoulder and
died at the scene, while the
gunman fled.
Minnesota police found a
woman who was wanted for
burglary — half-naked in-
side someone’s trunk.
Kirsten Hart, 29, allegedly
broke into a home where
she tussled with a resident
and ripped her shirt as she
fled. A driver saw her and
asked the alleged thief if she
needed help, thinking she’d
been assaulted — and she
jumped into his trunk.
Deputies conducting a
traffic stop found her there,
with a small amount of her-
oin and $150, they said.
A few smiley faces could
help your dating life, a new
study found.
People who use more
emojis with their prospec-
tive partners have more sex,
and a more active and suc-
cessful dating life, the study
published in the journal
PLoS ONE found.
Tamar Lapin, Wires
Soccer riot turns deadly
A fight between fans of ri-
val soccer teams at the Na-
tional Stadium in Honduras’
capital left four people dead.
The violence began when
fans of the Olimpia team
threw stones Saturday eve-
ning at a bus carrying Mot-
agua players to the Teguci-
galpa stadium, breaking win-
dows and injuring three play-ers. One Motagua player sus-
tained a cut near his eye and
two of his teammates were
also injured.
A fight broke out between
fans of the teams, with fists
flying and gunfire heard. Po-
lice used tear gas to disperse
the crowd, which took their
fight inside the stadium.
Four of the injured havebeen released from hospital,
while three more are in stable
condition, said a hospital
spokeswoman.
A suspect with guns who
allegedly participated in the
fight was arrested, police
said.
The game was suspended
and the stadium closed until
further notice. APCanary Is. blaze spreads
Approximately 4,000 peo-
ple were evacuated Sunday
as wildfires, for the second
time in a week, ravaged the
countryside of one of
Spain’s Canary Islands.
The latest blaze broke out
on Saturday afternoon near
the town of Valleseco on
Gran Canaria, off the north-
western coast of Africa in
the Atlantic Ocean.By Sunday afternoon, the
fire was burning in two di-
rections, destroying more
than 4,200 acres as it ad-
vanced, the provincial gov-
ernment tweeted.
Nine helicopters and two
planes aided at least 600
people, including firefight-
ers and army emergency
workers who were tackling
the blaze in shifts. APCULTURE CLASH:CULTURE CLASH:CULTURE CLASH:CULTURE CLASH: A Saudi A Saudi A Saudi
Arabian judge denied Beth-Arabian judge denied Beth-Arabian judge denied Beth-Arabian judge denied Beth-Arabian judge denied Beth-
any Vierra custody of daugh-any Vierra custody of daugh-
ter Zaina, 4, because of “theter Zaina, 4, because of “the
traditions of her upbringing.”Facebookpear in crazy clothes and stay
awake all night dancing and
surrounded by people wearing
only shoes made of fur, or
drinking drugs or cold drinks.”
Zaina was sent to live with
her paternal grandmother —
because the judge claimed that
“it is in men’s nature not to stay
at home and not to honor/fulfillparental role themselves.”
But Vierra’s ex-mother-in-law
had allegedly physically and
emotionally abused her own
children, according to court tes-
timony reported by The New
York Times.
Vierra, who moved to Saudi
Arabia in 2011 to teach at a uni-
versity, told the paper last monththat she promised her daughter
she’d fight the decision.
Her parents, Myron and Kathi
Vierra, told CNN she had until
Sunday to appeal, but it was not
clear if she was able to.
The couple said Bethany won’t
give up. “If Zaina can’t leave, she
won’t leave,” Kathi said.
[email protected]By LEE BROWN
and TAMAR LAPINAn American woman living in
Saudi Arabia lost custody of her
young daughter — because a
judge in the strict Islamic coun-
try deemed the mom “too West-
ern to raise the child,” accord-
ing to reports.
Distraught mother Bethany
Vierra, 32, was racing against
the clock Sunday to appeal the
ruling, her parents said.
“We love our granddaughter,”
Bethany’s father, Myron Vierra,
told CNN. “I think our deepest
fear is that we might not ever
see her again.”
Bethany and her Saudi busi-
nessman husband were divorced
in 2018, and she opened custody
proceedings for their 4-year-old
daughter, Zaina, in November.
Despite providing video evi-
dence showing her ex-husband
rolling a joint and verbally
abusing her in front of their
child, Vierra, a yoga teacher
originally from Wenatchee,
Wash., was denied custody last
month.
“The mother is new to Islam,
is a foreigner in this country,
and continues to definitively
embrace the customs and tradi-
tions of her upbringing,” Judge
Abdul-Ellah ibn Mohammed al-
Tuwaijri wrote in his ruling, ac-
cording to CNN. “We must
avoid exposing [Zaina] to these
customs and traditions, espe-
cially at this early age.”
To prove Vierra wasn’t a fit
parent under Islamic law, her ex
submitted photos of her in a bi-
kini and in yoga pants, and with
her hair uncovered.
He argued that her so-
cial-media pages were “full of
nudity, intermingling of the two
sexes and a lot of things and ac-
tions contrary to our religion
and customs and traditions.”
The ex weaponized the fact
that Vierra had gone to the
Burning Man festival, which he
called “the world’s strangest
festival,” where attendees “ap-