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2008-04-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-22 15:04|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 That picture's just mean, anon.

*snigger*

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-22 15:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-22 15:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Got your...nose!

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-22 15:25|| 2008-04-22 15:25|| Front Page Top

#3 This is really going to cut into American exports of polio vaccine/penis remover.

Posted by ed 2008-04-22 15:26|| 2008-04-22 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Ya read these stories and ya think, geez, it really is hard to believe that Africa can't get it's shit together, isn't it?

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-22 15:32|| 2008-04-22 15:32|| Front Page Top

#5 "It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

Jeebus, here in the States, we grow out of that adolescent behavior in middle-school P.E. class. And, according to *multiculturalism*, we're supposed to respect these yay-hoos?

Posted by BA 2008-04-22 15:50|| 2008-04-22 15:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Men, desperately trying to blame their inadequacies on others any way their culture allows...combined with a good dose of projection

Posted by gromky 2008-04-22 15:56|| 2008-04-22 15:56|| Front Page Top

#7 As Richard Pryor once told the story of Mr. Mudbone's account of being trapped in Ms. Rudolph's house in search for a cure for his friends ailments: "That's when I put my hand on my knife...for I figure, If somebody get hurt in here...I'aint gonna be the last one!"
Touch my jewels, shrink my manhood!!! You most likely will be drawing back a handless wrist, for your efforts.

Posted by smn 2008-04-22 16:11|| 2008-04-22 16:11|| Front Page Top

#8 HA-HA! My wee-wee is bigger than yours!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-22 16:16|| 2008-04-22 16:16|| Front Page Top

#9 claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear

I have no doubt mine would do the same if Helen Thomas touched me

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-22 16:37|| 2008-04-22 16:37|| Front Page Top

#10 "I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said."
What a way with words.....

"Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs"

reminds me of the old frontier joke where Grandma was surrounded by Indians; she was beating them off, but they coming and coming.....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-22 17:15|| 2008-04-22 17:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe if they used a rope with one end tied to their member and the other around their neck.

Posted by DoDo 2008-04-22 17:19|| 2008-04-22 17:19|| Front Page Top

#12 The cognative dissonance between "They quickly dominated radio call-in shows" and "using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises " makes my head hurt.

How can anyone in a first world country cope with this? Just the black magic, okay. That's what you get in stone age tribal society. But black magic on radio talk shows???????????

Posted by AlanC 2008-04-22 20:42|| 2008-04-22 20:42|| Front Page Top

#13 First they came for the penis snatchers...

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2008-04-22 21:09|| 2008-04-22 21:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Don't be too quick to blame the Africans for this. some Asians, too, have bizarre outbreaks of "disappearing penis syndrome".

What catches the eye is that no matter where it happens, or when, *the psychology is the same*. The odds of that occurring naturally are very slim.

The only difference I note is that the Africans tend to blame others for the problem, but Asians think that somehow, their abdomen is pulling their penis back inside their body for good.

The typical Asian response is to hold on to their penis continually, and when sleeping, to have one or more family members hold on to it.

One western doctor in China found a solution by temporarily inducing priapism, extended erection, in the affected males. After three or four hours of having an almost painful erection, the syndrome seemed to vanish.

And the doctor would be celebrated by a very, very grateful family.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-22 22:26|| 2008-04-22 22:26|| Front Page Top

#15 I vaguely recall a story on the news many(Many)years ago about a sudden cold snap in one of the normaly hot areas of china, Chinese men were tying strings and weights to their Peters thinking they were going to shrink into the body and be gone, they had no previous experience with cold weather, and didn't know it was normal to shrink up in cold weather.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-22 22:26|| 2008-04-22 22:26|| Front Page Top

#16 George: "Don't they know about shrinkage???"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-22 22:49|| 2008-04-22 22:49|| Front Page Top

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