Million-dollar goat sold in Saudi Arabia

[Bengal_Tiger]

Million-Dollar Goat Sold In Saudi Arabia



The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 09/10/2013 11:33 am EDT











In the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, a businessman sold a goat to someone interested in herding for 13 million Riyals, or $3 million, local newspaper Okaz reports. (Motasem Ramadan/Facebook)



There are men who splurge on goats.

In the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, a businessman sold a goat to someone interested in herding for 13 million Riyals, or roughly $3.6 million, local newspaper Okaz reports.
Plenty of Saudis took to social media to express their disbelief in the price tag, wondering why anyone would shell out millions on the animal. Others poked fun at the transaction.

A goat was recently sold in Saudi Arabia for USD3.5 Million, now if thats not money laundering I can’t figure what is.
— Turki B (@SaudiTurki) September 9, 2013

People with more money than sense: Goat goes on sale for $3M in Saudi Arabia! http://t.co/q8gL0v4Tl0
— marwa e (@marwa293) September 9, 2013

But experts in goat trading — yes — say the animal was a rare breed and had unique characteristics, although they maintained the selling price was still too high, according to Al Arabiya English.

This isn't the first goat-related shenanigan in the Middle Eastern country.

In 2011, Okaz reported that two young men admitted to police they were responsible for placing a goat on a government hospital bed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09...n_3900013.html

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

If a horse can cost up to 3 million dollars why would anyone be shocked to see another animal being sold for a similar price. Both of them are animals.

Why is it acceptible to pay big money for horses?

[ډګروال]

these saudis are the most ignorant people i have ever seen.
with that one million they could build homes for many people in need.

[Karachi]

these saudis are the most ignorant people i have ever seen.
with that one million they could build homes for many people in need.

they wont, yemen their neighbour and fellow arab nation is suffering from extreme poverty, yet they dont even give few dollars to them, in fact they have kicked out most yemeni workers now. Allah is definatly testing them with all the wealth, they are just busy wasting their money, they are not even doing anything for their own future, still 90% of the economy is oil based

[Bengal_Tiger]

they wont, yemen their neighbour and fellow arab nation is suffering from extreme poverty, yet they dont even give few dollars to them, in fact they have kicked out most yemeni workers now. Allah is definatly testing them with all the wealth, they are just busy wasting their money, they are not even doing anything for their own future, still 90% of the economy is oil based

Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest contributors to helping poorer countries through out the world.

This is one Saudi billionaire who gave away a lot of his money: http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middl...136786875.html

Between 1976 and 2006, Saudi developmental aid amounted to UK$49 billion,[1] second only to the United States of America. The ODA/GNP ratio averaged 4.2% over this period, well above the highest amount provided by Development Assistance Committee countries (the DAC average is 0.35%).[2] On a per-capita basis, the country is the biggest worldwide donator though the aid has only been given to Muslim countries.[1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_foreign_assistance

Saudi Arabia gives $3.25 billion to Yemen:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85c1ba8c-a...44feabdc0.html

At the end of the day I could go on.

Yes there are many bad things that happen in Saudi, yes there are bad people.

However there are also many good people and positive things.

You should appreciate the positive aspects of Saudi people and society too.

[ډګروال]

[MENTION=1058]Bengal_Tiger[/MENTION]
why are they called saudis? , they are simply Arabs.
so what if they do something good, does that mean they have a right to do something bad?
do you know that they have investements in news channels such as fox which is promoting anti muslim rhetoric?

they are also paying for the clapdown on Egyptian people by the dictator sissy.

[Karachi]

Bengali tiger, pledge is totally different to giving it, I found no source that they actually gave that. Anyways, even if they give, there is usually some political aim behind it, for example I know they give lots of aid to Pakistan, so pakistanis remain their puppets

[Bengal_Tiger]

1. I know a lot of good Saudis who are better than other Arabs.

Yes, there are bad Saudis but there are bad Bengalis and bad Pashtuns too. There are some spots/social strata of Bangladesh where people are not that religious and if they were to migrate to a country and these were the only Bangladeshis people were to know, they would think that we are all bad.

2. Saudi as a state has in fact helped Muslims through out the world including charitable work.

Now, there are things about Saudi I don't like e.g.
- I disagree with Wahabism/Salafism
- I don't like Saudis liking for the fascist Jamat e Islami in Bangladesh (but that is partly because of their ignorance and the cunning propaganda tactics of Jamaat)
- Saudi mistreatment of Bangladeshi workers whenever we have an Awami league government.
- Migrant workers are treated badly by some Saudis.

So Saudis are not perfect but one-sided Saudi bashing is not fair either.

[ډګروال]

when i talk about saudis i talk about the ruling family and the stinky rich sheikhs.
saudis have done alot of damage to muslims worldwide.

you have a soft spot for them because they have donated some to bangladesh.
in the decade long war in Afghanistan who do you think is supplying the oil?

offcourse i dont mean all the arabs from Arabistan.

[Karachi]

1. I know a lot of good Saudis who are better than other Arabs.

Yes, there are bad Saudis but there are bad Bengalis and bad Pashtuns too. There are some spots/social strata of Bangladesh where people are not that religious and if they were to migrate to a country and these were the only Bangladeshis people were to know, they would think that we are all bad.

2. Saudi as a state has in fact helped Muslims through out the world including charitable work.

Now, there are things about Saudi I don't like e.g.
- I disagree with Wahabism/Salafism
- I don't like Saudis liking for the fascist Jamat e Islami in Bangladesh (but that is partly because of their ignorance and the cunning propaganda tactics of Jamaat)
- Saudi mistreatment of Bangladeshi workers whenever we have an Awami league government.
- Migrant workers are treated badly by some Saudis.

So Saudis are not perfect but one-sided Saudi bashing is not fair either.

no doubt there are some saudis who are good, I have met myself living there, generally they are from middle class or poor ones. However the government/ruling family, the wahabhi cult, and the many rich spoilt folks are not good human beings at all, they are among the worst humans on the planet, they are the ones who also run the country, not the good saudis. This is the reason for bashing. If you have a soft spot for those folks, then you are just like many pakistani slaves who worship the ruling family

[DaZahroJaam.]

placing arbitrary value on useless things is not a new trend for the wealthy. the saudis being of the superior kind that God has blessed humanity with would obviously want to have their own distinguished version of the novelty. they have gone one step further by holding beauty peagants for these goats which makes it difficult for one to consider this hobby of theirs on the same scale as the admiration of others for other creatures such as horses and what not. also, i highly doubt that at any point of history has a human being been denied a hospital bed because someone had it reserverd for a horse or a parrot as was the case in saudi arabia with a goat a while ago.

nothing wrong with showing compassion for the pain of a goat or anything but savour and express a quarter of it for a starving fellow human being for a change.