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| Fake Viagra, Made in North Korea |
| 2004-07-05 |
| Fake Viagra made in North Korea has turned up on the streets of South Korea , where police have detained a local man for peddling a bogus version of the impotence pill. Police officers in Seoul said Friday they were holding Bu Hyun-shik, 52, after confiscating close to 3,000 fake Viagra pills that they said Bu claimed were made in North Korea. "The pills are white, round and wrapped in aluminum foil," a police officer said -- very different from the real erectile dysfunction remedy. Viagra is sold in pharmacies in Seoul at about 15,000 won ($13) a pill, triple Bu’s price tag of 5,000 won. A Seoul pharmacist said the low price should make would-be buyers wary of fake "potentially dangerous" pills. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #7 5548: That hurts, but it is funny. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-07-05 6:59:35 PM |
| #6 It's just White Slag, which was an overblown remedy anyway....... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-07-05 5:40:46 PM |
| #5 No doubt a plot to prevent the South from standing up for itself..... |
| Posted by: Anonymous5548 2004-07-05 5:19:05 PM |
| #4 My Doctor won't give me viagra. He says there is no point in putting a brand new flagpole on a condemned building. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-07-05 3:15:53 PM |
| #3 I'd ask whether it would be even possible to find Moore's in all that fat, but that would lead down a road that nobody would want to travel. Can't say I see what the big deal is, though. Just take it with a little bit of orange juche and it should work just as well as the real stuff. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-07-05 2:51:23 PM |
| #2 Mike - wasn't that on the cover of Moore's book, Stupid White Men? |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-07-05 2:45:58 PM |
| #1 This is the tallest monument in Pyongyang. Mere conicidence? |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-07-05 7:42:34 AM |