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'via Blog this'showed up. Instead, men in masks broke into the house, forcibly drugged Saleem and knocked him unconscious. He would wake up sometime later on a cold metal gurney, with a shooting pain in his side. His kidney was gone, and his abductors told him in no uncertain terms that if he told anyone he'd be losing a lot more than a kidney.
Getcha' kidney! Getcha' kidney here! Tub-full-of-ice fresh kidneys!
In case you just crossed India off your list of countries to visit, you'll want to keep your pen out. The illegal organ trade is worth big money from Brazil to Eastern Europe. The chain email probably originated from incidents in the Eastern European country of Moldova. The big difference between the chain email and reality is that in the real world, they usually just dump your body on the side of the street after they're done raiding your organ suitcase.
(STAY OUTTA NJ, TOO.
Rabbis, New Jersey Mayors Arrested In Money Laundering, Kidney Selling Scandal Josh
You can immediately tell what political party they belong to by the glaringly obvious omission of any party identification in the linked article. (Hint: if they were republicans, it would be in the headline)
http://consumerist.com/2009/07/rabbis-new-jersey-mayors-arrested-in-money-laundering-kidney-selling-scandal.html>Wanna buy a human kidney? If so, you should have been talking to Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, NY. He's been charged with conspiring to broker a kidney as part of a crackdown on "a corrupt network of public officials who were all too willing to take cash in exchange for promised official action," according to theNew Jersey AG's office. Yes, you're reading this correctly. It's just really weird.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/levy-izhak-rosenbaum-plea_n_1035624.html
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum Pleads Guilty To Selling Black Market Kidneys
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum Pleads Guilty To Selling Black Market Kidneys
Rabbi Caught in New Jersey Corruption Sting Called Himself Kidney 'Matchmaker'
This past August, a 49 year old woman was trying to get into the house of her on-again, off-again boyfriend. We're guessing they were "off-again" at the time, because instead of say, using her key to open the front door, she decided to scramble up on the roof and descend into the house through the chimney. Apparently she didn't watch a lot of Looney Tunes as a kid, or she'd have known these types of schemes almost never work out well.
Perhaps the most amazing thing about this story? The job that the tragically deceased woman failed to show up for? Doctor. If this story proves anything it's that bad relationships can make you do some crazy shit no matter how smart you are.
( Or: Doctors are not Gods, they are people so stop listening to everything they say. Maybe you don't need Prozak. Maybe you have a good reason to be depressed. Look around you. Make some changes. Throw out your fucking TV.)
The Legend:
In parts of South America people tell the tale of the fearsome Pishtacos, shadowy figures who stalk peasants along dark roads, kill them and drain them of their fat. Stories of these cholesterol-laden vampires are hard to believe
When police arrested the gang which operated deep within the jungle highlands of Peru, they made some grisly discoveries -- a pile of human ribs and thighbones, a decomposing human head, and yes, two plastic Coke bottles filled with what appeared to be human fat. It seems the gang would confront people along the quiet back roads, lure them to their laboratory, bludgeon them to death, dismember them, and then using candles render the fat out of the body, which they captured in a basin below. But what do you do with a bottle of human pan drippings?
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 24 November 2009
By: Jason
A CNN article recently reported Peruvian police arresting four members of a gang that allegedly murders people and then sells their body fat. Apparently, European laboratories are paying $15,000 per liter for human fat to be used possibly for cosmetics and in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. The four men were arrested in association with the disappearance of at least 60 people in two mountainous states in central Peru. Authorities are calling the suspects "pishtacos," which are Andean mythological creatures. The lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz acknowledged the uniqueness of the allegations. "We are not making this up," he said. "They have confessed to this. That's what's coming out now."
A few months ago, as we were driving back from a trip to an orphanage, Señor Alcides, the director who also has 27 years of police experience, pointed to a village on the road about 20 minutes outside of Cusco. He told me of an unsolved crime in that town, which was supposedly full of brujas (witches). The crime involved a murder where some of the victim’s organs were missing. Señor Alcides said that everyone in town suspected pishtacos. After a year of no leads in the case, the police hired some brujas, who “guaranteed” they could help solve the case
Incredibly, and quite disturbingly, this myth would seem to have become a reality. On Nov. 20th, 2009, BBC News Online reported the arrest of four men “on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.”
The gang has been accused of killing people on remote roads in order to extract their fat. These men have been referred to as Pishtacos. Two Italian nationals are still being sought; the involvement of foreigners further echoing the Peruvian myth.
The similarities are nothing short of bizarre. Before the incident, many Peruvians would talk of the Pishtacos as if they were indeed a reality; could they have been right? The entire truth of the story has yet to emerge. One suspect has already stated that the killings started over thirty years ago, but many doubts are being raised as to the validity of the whole affair.
One baffling piece of the puzzle is the actual sale of the fat. According to medical experts in both the BBC and MSNBC reports, there is no black market for human fat due to it being widely available for medical procedures. This fact alone serves to cast a long shadow of doubt over the story.
Peruvian police officials are increasingly falling under suspicion for having fabricated the events in order to bury other unsavory actions. Investigative journalist Ricardo Uceda was the first to argue that the story was a cover-up intended to hide the actions of police death squads in the Peruvian city of Trujillo.
Could the allegation of homicidal liposuction possibly be a smokescreen to distract attention from other crimes, including, some local journalists say, the existence of a death squad that may be operating within the country's national police?
In this case, also elusive are the Italian nationals whom the police claim were paying $60,000 a gallon for unprocessed human fat; nowhere to be found, too, were the dozens of headless, fatless bodies supposedly dangling in a clandestine fat-rendering laboratory.
While the story made for spectacular news reports, the account was quickly questioned by doctors, security experts and even others in the national police. By the end of November, police authorities and not the fat thieves were the ones under the microscope.
First, the basic facts about human fat are at odds with the story. Fat does not last very long outside the body and would be of little use once stored in dirty, returnable bottles of Inca Kola, Peru's electric yellow, bubble gum–flavored soda. Says Dr. Roni Luna, a plastic surgeon in Lima: "Human fat has no value. It can be removed from one part of a person's body and injected into another part of the same person, but that's it. Anyone who has taken a rudimentary class in human biology can tell you that decomposition would happen within 30 minutes or less."
Dr. William Mitchell, an anthropology professor at New Jersey's Monmouth University who has studied the pishtaco myth in Peru's central highlands, says the current story is so ludicrous that he nearly dropped the phone when his son called to tell him the news. "My first reaction was, 'What?' This story is so crazy that the only thing I could imagine was that the police officers either believed the tale of someone trying to cover up a crime or they were trying to cover up something themselves," says Mitchell. The daily La Republica reported on Nov. 30 that the police authorities in Huanuco, where the fat stealers supposedly operated, found out about the case from the press conference the same way as the rest of Peru.
The alleged ring operated in a well-known drug production and transit zone, with cocaine passing through on the way to the Peruvian coast and then to Europe or the U.S. by boat. (The price supposedly paid for a gallon of fat would fetch about six times what the equivalent amount in cocaine would on the local market.) Peru is the world's second largest cocaine producer after Colombia, with a capacity to produce around 300 metric tons of cocaine annually from its coca crops.
The possibility of some kind of cover-up became part of the public debate because of the fate of an article by the investigative journalist Ricardo Uceda, published in the monthly magazinePoder. Uceda's story detailed the supposed operation of a death squad within the police unit in the northern city of Trujillo. He documented 46 criminals shot to death by police officers in 2007 and 2008 in the city, which has a population hovering around 800,000. But the allegations of the pishtaco gang surfaced at about the time Uceda's article was going to press. For several days, the murderous fat stealers hogged the headlines.
On Nov. 29, Peru's media had caught up to Uceda's explosive allegations and news magazines were filled with speculation of a cover-up, focusing primarily on Interior Minister Octavio Salazar, whose office oversees the police. Salazar is a retired police general who used to head the force's Trujillo detachment. TV news shows, dailies and blogs were abuzz not with news of fat-stealing but of a "grease-screen," which is how Patricia del Rio of the daily Peru 21described what many now say is a bizarre cover-up. Both liberal and conservative media have followed del Rio's lead, debating out loud why the national police would time the allegations of fat-stealing just as Uceda's report was coming out.
Not pictured: an appealing alternative to getting high.
(Hahaha!)
PCP makes you a cannibal:
PCP makes you a cannibal:
| Background information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Antron Singleton |
| Also known as | Lurch, Big Lurch |
| Born | September 15, 1976 Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_LurchEarly life
Born in Dallas, Texas, Singleton grew up nearby in North Dallas, Texas. At 7 years old, he began writing poetry. He decided to pursue a career in rapping, and began performing in 1990. In his early rap years, Singleton rapped under the name G-Spade, but later changed his name to Big Lurch after earning that nickname from his peers. This was due to his intimidating figure, very slim and 6 foot and 6 inches.
Prior to murder
In 2000, on September 16, one day after his 24th birthday, Singleton was driving his car when a drunk driver hit him, resulting in his neck being broken. While in the hospital he was heavily medicated. It was while on medication that he wrote one of his songs, Texas Boy, for his album, It's All Bad. After being released from the hospital, he had trouble walking and was still in pain. Singleton admitted, in Rhyme And Punishment, that he began using PCP to ease the pain.
(PCP is not a painkiller, is it? Can Texas provide damaged people with decent freaking pain meds? Jesus Christ.)
POSITIVE
- Increase in energy
- Euphoria
- Pleasant mental and/or body high
- Disconnected thoughts
- Sense of calm
- Increased sociability, loss of inhibitions
- Closed- and open-eye visuals
- Shifts in perception of reality
NEUTRAL
- Increased salivation
- Change in body temperature regulation, sweating
- Increased heart rate (lower doses)
- Altered time perception
- Disrupted speech patterns
- Analgesia (decreased pain awareness) and numbness
- Feelings of invulnerability
- Distorted sensory perceptions, hallucinations
- Unusual and unpredictable behavior
- Mild to moderate dissociation (common)
- Confusion, disorientation (common)
- Nystagmus (rhythmic eye movement)
NEGATIVE
- Disturbing hallucinations and/or delusions
- Severe anxiety, paranoia
- Severe dissociation, depersonalization
- Ataxia (loss of motor coordination)
- Severe confusion, disorganized thinking
- Psychotic episodes 1
- Physical aggression
- Nausea, vomiting
- Temporary amnesia
- Severe distortion or loss of auditory/visual perception
- Decreased heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration (high doses)
- Seizures (high doses)
- Hangover including dizziness, numbness and lethargy; may last 24 hours or more
- Coma (high doses, increased risk when combined with depressants)
- Possible neurotoxicity (controversial) 2
DESCRIPTION #
Many users report feelings of dissociation, perceptual alterations and loss of coordination after using the drug. Intense hallucinations and delusions as well as a loss of physical control and coordination are also commonly experienced. PCP has been known to induce seizures, coma and even death, especially at high doses, and there is some evidence to indicate that, whilst not physically addictive, it can lead to psychological dependency and drug-seeking behaviour.
Total Duration | 4 - 6 hrs |
Onset | 2 - 20 mins |
Coming Up | 30 - 60 mins |
Plateau | 2 - 3 hrs |
Coming Down | 1 - 2 hrs |
After Effects | 24 + hrs |
Hangover / Day After | - - - |
There appears to be a current trend of the use of substances known alternately by the slang names 'embalming fluid', 'fry', 'formaldehyde', 'wet', 'water', or 'amp'. These are sold in a variety of forms including cannabis joints or regular cigarettes dipped in liquid and cannabis leaf or tea leaves dipped in liquid. In all of these forms, the material is then smoked. Despite the variety of names, there is good reason to believe that these are all various preparations containing PCP.
In most instances PCP is not mentioned when the substance is sold or discussed. In fact, there are constantly re-circulating rumors that substances being sold by these names do not contain PCP, but are instead actually the fluid (formaldehyde) used for embalming as would be used in a mortuary. But there is evidence to support that this is primarily a case of confused slang terms. 'Embalming Fluid' is a common street slang term for PCP and has been for many years. PCP can come in liquid form, so the term 'fluid' is fitting. It is entirely possible (actually quite likely) that the confusion between PCP and embalming fluid (formaldehyde) has gone so far as to cause a new trend where PCP is actually mixed with formaldehye (or other 'embalming fluids') and used as a recreational psychoactive. But there is little evidence that the formaldehyde itself causes any pleasant or desirable effects.
In most instances PCP is not mentioned when the substance is sold or discussed. In fact, there are constantly re-circulating rumors that substances being sold by these names do not contain PCP, but are instead actually the fluid (formaldehyde) used for embalming as would be used in a mortuary. But there is evidence to support that this is primarily a case of confused slang terms. 'Embalming Fluid' is a common street slang term for PCP and has been for many years. PCP can come in liquid form, so the term 'fluid' is fitting. It is entirely possible (actually quite likely) that the confusion between PCP and embalming fluid (formaldehyde) has gone so far as to cause a new trend where PCP is actually mixed with formaldehye (or other 'embalming fluids') and used as a recreational psychoactive. But there is little evidence that the formaldehyde itself causes any pleasant or desirable effects.
Long-term use has been known to lead to schizophrenia-like psychotic episodes, severe lasting memory loss, disorganised thinking, depression, weight loss, liver abnormalities and rhabomyolysis (skeletal muscle breakdown).
On April 10, 2002, 25-year-old Singleton murdered Tynisha Ysais in her Los Angeles, California, apartment.[3]Her boyfriend Thomas Moore testified that he and Singleton spent the evening prior to the murder smokingPCP.
The victim was found in her apartment by a friend. Her chest had been torn open and a three-inch blade was found broken off in her shoulder blade. Tooth marks were found on her face and on her lungs, which had been torn from her chest. An eyewitness reported that, when Singleton was picked up by police, he was naked, covered in blood, standing in the middle of the street, and screaming at the sky. A medical examination performed shortly after his capture found human flesh in his stomach that was not his own.[1]
On November 7, 2003, Singleton was sentenced to life in prison.[3] He had been convicted of murder and aggravated mayhem the previous June after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the murder. The court ruled that his intoxication and claimed insanity were not satisfactory reasons for committing the crime, after a court-appointed psychiatrist had evaluated Singleton and reported that he had no reason to believe he was of unsound mind. Some evidence casts doubt on whether Big Lurch actually committed the murder, according to the 2011 documentary Rhyme and Punishment. Particularly, a bloody hand print on a scooter used to inflict blunt trauma to the back of the victim's head did not match his prints. Additionally, the scene contained DNA that did not match Singleton or the victim.[citation needed] Currently, it is not known whether he will ever be eligible for parole.
(Here's a good time to use the death penalty. If you can't handle your drugs, DON'T DO THEM. know when to say when.)
He is currently serving his life sentence at California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster, California. He has spent the last 4 of 5 years in solitary confinement. He was recently transferred to California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC). Some people have started petitions or movements called, "Free Big Lurch", due to the circumstantial evidence when he was convicted.
(No, fuck that. Dude, he will do it again.)
(Just give people a freaking alternative to booze. Booze sucks.)
He thought that the devil was inside her.. and he needed to kill the devil.
Antron Singleton c. 1975, in Fort Worth, TX) is a rap artist currently serving a life sentence for murdering 21 year old female acquaintance Tynisha Ysais and eating parts of her body in April 2002 while under the influence of PCP.
During his music career, Singleton worked with such Bay Area rappers as Too Short, Mac Dre, RBL Posse, C-Bo, E-40, and New Orleans based Mystikal, Yukmouth, TQ, DJ U-Neek, Lil Keke and Big Bone. He was also a member of Cosmic Slop Shop, along with Doonie Baby and Rick Rock.
In April 2002, 27 year old Singleton murdered Tynisha Ysais in her apartment while under the influence of PCP. Her boyfriend Thomas Moore testified that he and Singleton spent the evening prior to the murder smoking PCP, also known as "angel dust."
Legend:
When a neighbor found Jean Hilliard in the snow she was frozen solid. That's not euphemism; she was literally frozen like a turkey in your grandma's deep freeze. Her body was too frozen to pierce with a needle, her temperature too low to register and when they took her to the hospital they loaded her into the car diagonally like a piece of lumber from Home Depot. She was, by nearly every measure, literally stone cold dead.
As Jean lay wrapped in an electric heating pad her eyelids began to flutter, and after some time she thawed completely, returning to life as if nothing had happened. She showed absolutely no ill effects from her little nap in the snowbank -- no frostbite, no brain damage, not even any freezer burn. The 19-year old woman from North Dakota had, essentially, come back from the dead completely unharmed. Had she been sipping on antifreeze cocktails earlier in the evening? Did Mr. Freeze secretly give her up for adoption as a baby? Dr. George Sather, who treated her, isn't ruling anything out. As he put it, "I can't explain why she's alive."
(I googled it and it is not a "news story." I'm gonna say false. Wait, it happened in 1981...)
DAKOTA TEEN-AGER RECOVERS AFTER BEING 'FROZEN STIFF'
AP
Published: January 3, 1981
BISMARCK, N.D., Jan. 2— Jean Hilliard was literally frozen stiff, ''like a piece of meat out of a deep freeze,'' when a friend found her in the snow after a night of 22-below-zero temperatures. But the 19-year-old has made an unusual recovery.
''At worst, I might lose a couple of toes,'' she says. ''I can't explain why she's alive,'' Dr. George Sather, who helped treat the young woman, said today. ''She was frozen stiff, literally. It's a miracle.''
Miss Hilliard was frozen after a midnight automobile accident in rural northwestern Minnesota. When she arrived at the Fosston, Minn., hospital, her skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle. Her temperature was too low to register on a thermometer. Her face was ashen and her eyes were solid and did not respond to light. Thawing Out Process
''The reaction didn't appear until two or three hours after she started thawing out,'' Dr. Sather said. ''The body was cold, completely solid, just like a piece of meat out of a deep freeze.''
Her ordeal began late Dec. 20 as she was returning to her parents' home near Lengby, Minn. The family car skidded off the road on the edge of the White Earth Indian Reservation and stalled in the windy, frigid weather.
Clad in western boots, a coat and mittens, she began walking to Wally Nelson's home two miles away and collapsed only 15 feet from his door.
Mr. Nelson found her as walked out the door at 7 o'clock the next morning. Her body was so stiff that Mr. Nelson loaded her ''diagonally'' in the back seat of his car and headed for the hospital.
Doctors were unable to give her intravenous feedings because ''she was frozen too solid to penetrate the skin,'' said Dr. Sather's brother, Dr. Edgar Sather.
Her pulse, hardly registering through her frozen skin, was about 12 beats a minute. And her temperature was too low for a thermometer, with a low reading of 88 degrees, 10 degrees below normal. But in several hours, wrapped in an electric heating pad, she began to revive.
Ted Bundy:
Carol DaRonch was browsing through a Utah city bookstore when she was approached by a police officer who informed her that her car had been broken into in the parking lot and that she should come with him down to the station to file a report. A perfectly reasonable sounding request, except for one rather important fact -- this police officer was, in reality, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.
We're not sure that haircut is in compliance with police guidelines.
Carol started to suspect something was up when Bundy didn't pick her up in a shiny police issue Crown Victoria, but his shitty VW Bug. Granted she still got in the car, but hey, it was the 70s -- creepy looking guys driving Volkswagens made up 90% of the male population back then.
Thankfully Carol finally caught on when Bundy pulled out a gun and a pair of handcuffs. She managed to kick him in the balls, escape the car and flag down another vehicle that drove her to the police station. After what she'd just been through we suspect she made sure every cop at the station showed her their badge about half a dozen times.
Bundy was hardly the first, or the last to try this kind of stunt, and unfortunately others have pulled it off with deadlier results. It may be a good idea to ask a few questions before you blindly do whatever the man tells you to do .
(Either way, you're fucked. Resisting arrest or resisting a lunatic.)
