Suspected Penis Snatcher is Beaten to Death

[Pert_UK]

" 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia, police say.

A police spokesman told Reuters on Thursday that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, some nine miles from the capital Banjul.

Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with purported victims claiming that alleged sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear in order to extort cash in the promise of a cure."

Full story:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031010/80/eaqfj.html

"She turned me into a newt!!!...............err......I got better..."

I try to maintain a detached, anthropological sense of cultural relativism and I suspect that there is a grain of truth buried somewhere in this story, but a very basic part of me just wants to scream, "YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!!!"

I don't know, what do you think.......was this guy slipping Speed into their food and they were waking up with 4 inches less than last night? Or is this just a macho thing, with men desperately wanting to claim that "It used to be huge, but someone shrank it!", and this guy was just the scape goat?

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. It's no weirder than the spam we all get on a daily basis

Obviously someone believes in manhood enlargement, if the purveyors keep sending us their claims.

[ForrestGump]

2. Proof that there's balance in the universe

How else can you explain why I keep getting bigger and bigger every morning?

As if....

Though it'd have me singing "My Friend, The Witch Doctor" all day long.

[trof]

4. oo-ee-oo-ah-ah

ting tang
walla walla bing bang
That one?
;-)

[WoodrowFan]

3. Hysteria

It's a case of hysteria. The "victims" will examine themselves and honestly believe that their penis is GONE. Pointing out to them that it is still there is useless becuase they will refuse to believe it. It's like trying to convince a freeper that Bush lied.

[WoodrowFan]

5. details on mass hysteria from CSICOP (excerpt and link to full article)

(A small excerpt)
Nigerian Genitalia Vanishing Epidemic of 1990
During 1990, an episode of "vanishing" genitalia caused widespread fear across Nigeria. Native psychiatrist Sunny Ilechukwu (1992) said that most reports of attacks involved male victims. Accusations were usually triggered by incidental body contact with a stranger in a public place, after which the "victim" would feel strange scrotum sensations and grab their genitals to confirm that they were still there. Then they would confront the person as a crowd would gather, accusing them of being a genital thief, before stripping naked to convince bystanders that their penis was really missing. Many "victims" claimed that the penis had been returned once the alarm had been raised or that, although the penis was now back, "it was shrunken and so probably a 'wrong' one or just the ghost of a penis" (95). The accused was often threatened or beaten until the penis had been "fully restored," and in some instances, the accused was beaten to death. Ilechukwu (1992, 96) described the scene in one city:

Men could be seen in the streets of Lagos holding on to their genitalia either openly or discreetly with their hands in their pockets. Women were also seen holding on to their breasts directly or discreetly by crossing the hands across the chest. It was thought that inattention and a weak will facilitated the "taking" of the penis or breasts. Vigilance and anticipatory aggression were thought to be good prophylaxis.
Social and cultural traditions contributed to the outbreak as many Nigerian ethnic groups "ascribe high potency to the external genitalia as ritual and magical objects to promote fecundity or material prosperity to the unscrupulous" (Ilechukwu 1988, 313). The belief in vanishing genitalia was not only plausible but institutionalized; many influential Nigerians expressed outrage when police released suspected genital thieves. A Christian priest even claimed that a Bible passage where Jesus asked "Who touched me?" because the "power had gone out of him," referred to genital stealing (101-102).


http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-05/delusions.html

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Kiss It Darlin' and watch it turn into a large talleywhacker!

Watch out for lip warts though!

Once upon a time, a young man was walking down the enchanted street minding his own bidness, when to his horror he chanced to meet a very strange man with an even stranger cargo in tow! The strange man was toting not one, but two 5 gallon buckets of what looked to the young man to be a mass of bloody squidlike things!

Shocked by the contents of those two large buckets of nasty goop, the young man had to ask, "Sir, what the f is that?"

The strange man stated that, "Why these are pe?ers that I have gone round to all the funeral homes in town and collected! I'm a leather craftsperson and I use these to make various leather goods out of, after processing and tanning them!"

Shocked, the young man said, "If you'd give me your business address, I'd like to come and see what you make out of this batch!" So, the strange man gave the guy his addy and told him, "Come over in about two weeks and take a look then!"

Two weeks later the young man showed up a door with a sign on it that said, "P. Beater, Leather Goods." He walked in the door and sure enough he came face to face with the strange fellow he'd met two weeks ago on the street! The young man said, "I don't know if you remember me or not, but I spoke with you on the street two weeks ago about the contents of your bloody buckets! At that time, you invited me to come and see what you were going to make out of those 10 gallons of talleywhackers, so I'm here to see for myself!"

The strange man reached behind the counter and pulled out a beautiful handmade leather wallet and said, "Well, this is what I was able to make out of the batch you saw that morning!"

The young man asked, "Is this all you were able to make out of the entire ten gallon, it's rather less than I expected!" The Strange man replied, "Rub it, it turns into a suitcase!"

[T_i_B]

7. "Suspected Penis Snatcher is Beaten to Death"

And what was he beaten with? :evilgrin:

[peekaloo]

8. penis snatcher?

convoluted term for vagina?

[Booberdawg]

9. ROTFL! Honestly. The lengths men will go to in their minds to make

up a few more inches. Wonder how any of them think their penis actually disappeared? They gotta be smokin' some wacky shit!

[Throckmorton]

10. Gee, I always wondered what happened to mine

It looked a lot bigger in Junior High, but then with each passing month, it seemed to get smaller and smaller.

Hermione Granger, that witch, she’s responsible for my incredible shrinking Phallus.

[TrogL]

11. Related issue

Some Asian men are terrified that their penises will disappear and buy all sorts of bizarre nostrums (eg. rhinoserus tusk) to prevent this. I've even heard of men piercing themselves so it won't retract.

Sad, really.

[Blue-Jay]

12. ACK! My penis has vanished!

oh wait... there it is. I sure wish I hadn't killed the guy sitting next to me.