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Title: Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
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Reuters
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422 ... t=AhJMkNhxm3eY_2A4oNfA1_Ss0NUE
Published: Apr 23, 2008
Author: Joe Bavier
Post Date: 2008-04-23 12:33:57 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 402
Comments: 28
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital By Joe Bavier Tue Apr 22, 1:24 PM ET KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft. ADVERTISEMENT Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur. Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings. Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure. "You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday. 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. The 27 men have since been released. "I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said. "But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said. Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members. "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.
Poster Comment: This might explain why they still live in grass huts and eat mud cookies.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
um..how do they steal penises????
4 is the only place for information such as this: how else would I have learned of this impending crisis?
Apparently it only happens to our brothers on the dark continent. Google "penis theft" and behold the insanity that is endemic in these poor creatures.
I think we need a UN intervention. This insult cannot stand...er...hold....er....wilt...
Copper Clappers
"The Constitution is a written instrument. As such it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now." -- United States Supreme Court Source: South Carolina vs. United States (1905)
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
If these guys could just sign up for a Yahoo! email account and leave the spam filter off, they'd receive dozens of offers every day on how to remedy this malady. Why have we not yet brought the Internets to every African household? It'd be more useful than all the vaccinations, one of which likely transmitted HIV to them. (Pastor Wright was not entirely kooky to imply this in his sermons.)
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
What a hoot. I haven't seen that in years.It still cracks me up :)
In the interests of multiculturalism - blacks will have to have a white penis and vice versa.
Don't get me started with this stuff.
We must send more missionaries to Africa to save the Africans from themselves. It's the right thing to do.
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862
You tube has scrubbed all those precious Tarzan clips with the natives dancing around the boiling missionaries. Or was it Abbot and Costello?
Both.
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862
Witchcraft, curses...your typical African may live in the 21st century, but their minds are lost somewhere in the stone age.
It said ritual killing, then taking of the body part. Just like a JOhnnny Weismueller Tarzan flick...they were my first exposure to the real Africa, which is why I'm not PC. LOL. Men no Go Bwana! Men say penis Ju-Ju!!
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Impossible. I was told by several well-known black activists that Blacks invented everything from civilization, to algebra, to space travel and the internet. /sar
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Why ? Ya suffering a shortage ? (hahahahahaha)
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
You have to be a nut, cocky and to secure the pilfered phallus in the right sort of sack. I'd have to be a dork not to take a poke at that question.
Wonderful stuff from our past - thank you.
It was Thursday, April 10th. It was sultry in Kinshasa. We were working the day watch out of penis theft. My partner's Frank Smith; the boss is Captain Stine. My name's Friday.
My partner's Snake Johnson; the boss is Wang Hos.
Better.
I sense the thread deteriorating...
YMW! :)
"The Constitution is a written instrument. As such it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now." -- United States Supreme Court Source: South Carolina vs. United States (1905)
In a moment, the results of that trial.
This all began when Chiamaka dropped his drawers in front of LaTweaka and she laughs and says, "Is that all you got?" At this point Chiamaka looks down and screams, "sorcerers have shrank my penis." The part of the story that isn't told is that later that day LaTweaka was telling Laquinta the story, and Laquinta replied, "girl, there weren't no sorcerers shrank his junk. His mama told me he's always been hung like a hampster."
I think I know where they are fencing the goods.
Where's the guy with the gonad fixation? He should have weighed in by now...
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#3. To: christine (#1)
#4. To: lodwick (#2)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#6. To: lodwick (#2)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises
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#9. To: Sam Houston, celebrate diversity (#7)
#10. To: Peppa (#5)
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#14. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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#15. To: christine (#1)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#16. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#14)
Witchcraft, curses...your typical African may live in the 21st century, but their minds are lost somewhere in the stone age.
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#17. To: christine (#1)
um..how do they steal penises????
#18. To: christine (#1)
"um..how do they steal penises????"
Obama for president 2008
#19. To: Peppa (#5)
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I've already said too much.
#21. To: MUDDOG (#20)
My partner's Frank Smith; the boss is Captain Stine.
#22. To: lodwick (#21)
I've already said too much.
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#24. To: lodwick (#19)
Wonderful stuff from our past - thank you.
#25. To: lodwick (#23)
I've already said too much.
#26. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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shrink men's penises
#27. To: lodwick (#23)
Obama for president 2008
#28. To: Hayek Fan, funny ball guy (#26)
The part of the story that isn't told is that later that day LaTweaka was telling Laquinta the story, and Laquinta replied, "girl, there weren't no sorcerers shrank his junk. His mama told me he's always been hung like a hampster."
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