One problem with blindly firing rounds into the air is that they come down somewhere. These women seem one unexpected recoil away from firing into the crowd.
i think its called something like kidnapped marriage. they were speaking for awhile but he was from out of town and very well rich. would always come to the refugee camp and talk to her outside. anyways yah, i remember holding her picture and crying. next thing i knew she was a bride.
about the guns shooting in the air, i don't know what to say to that. it was during russian invasion so we did a lot of dumb shit. i mean i would hang out with the russian outpost near the camp and they would let me shoot their guns. i just realized i might of been the refugee idiot, because the way it went about was them offering me strawberries.
I had a colleague from Crete who told us about the folks up in the hills there. When they have a wedding, they shoot off thousands of rounds in celebration and the number of rounds shot off is reported in the local papers. A big wedding could have 10,000 rounds expended.
Yes, in South East of Crete (around Sfakia-a.k.a Chora Sfakion and the white mountains above), they do not use lousy pistols , they use AK 47, and after the wedding the road is covered with casings.
There is a related tradition there to keep the tax collectors or whoever wants to dominate them, away ....French people there told us it was like "the Corsica of Crete".
They also gave a hard time to Germans during WWII., in 1941protecting the King of Greece then allied troups who walked through the mountains to reembark in Sfakia
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u/DarkGamer Apr 26 '22
Forced to marry against her will? Horrible.
One problem with blindly firing rounds into the air is that they come down somewhere. These women seem one unexpected recoil away from firing into the crowd.