Pushed or Shoved

Here was a good one that appeared in the Kuwait Times (from the Al-Rai Daily newspaper) last year. This is another example of how an innocent maid can become embroiled in a domestic situation that can end in disaster.

I retype the story here word-for-word.

Kuwait City, April 26: Police are currently investigating the mysterious fall of a Bedoun man from an apartment in Salmiya, reports Al-Rai Daily.

A police source said an unidentified man suspected his wife of having an affair with another man – a suspicion which was confirmed by the maid who claimed that his wife had a lover.

To further confirm his suspicions, the man made an arrangement with the maid for him to leave the apartment earlier than he used to and for the maid to call him as soon as the suspected lover arrived at the apartment.

A fight then erupted between the two men and the husband called his relatives to act as witnesses. The lover, a Bedoun, also asked his family to go to the apartment but they were informed that the man jumped out of the window when they arrived at the apartment.

Police are now waiting on the health conditions of the Bedoun, who is currently confined at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Jahra Hospital, to improve so they could determine if the man really jumped out of the window or the husband pushed him out.

You would have thought that, according to the report, if the relatives of both men were present, then somebody would have seen whether he was pushed or if he jumped! Or am I just being a cynical twat?