Posted on 11/20/2009 12:29:54 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin
Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing around 60 people to sell their fat on the blackmarket for cosmetic use in Europe, authorities say.
Three suspects who were arrested in central Peru this month have confessed to killing five people for their fat, according to Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police.
A search is now underway for seven others, including two Italians, lead prosecutor Jorge Sans Quiroz said.
The fat was purchased "to be commercialised in European [cosmetic medicine] laboratories," he said.
The prosecutor's indictment said that the gang allegedly targeted farmers and indigenous people on remote Andean roads, tricking them by offering them jobs before killing them.
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Heh, I was thinking I’m glad I don’t live there. I’d be a ‘juicy’ target! ;o)
Time for me to diet!
Damn. This is right out of an X-files episode. Some humanoid monster needed to eat fat to stay alive so he would pick up fat chicks and kill them during a date.
Damn. This is right out of an X-files episode. Some humanoid monster needed to eat fat to stay alive so he would pick up fat chicks and kill them during a date.
Do they take the livers too? Seemed to recall stories of people waking up in the tub on ice with a note...
Oh, come on. Don’t you want to be a plump turista? };o
Sick sick sick!!!
Tyler Durden goes native.
Gives new meaning to the term “morbidly obese”.
Remind me to stay out of Peru.
I wonder what my fat would fetch on the black market. *SZ*
This is the same type of urban legend that consists of people stealing kidneys for a imaginary black market in kidneys.
Would animal fat be all that different? Talk about holding life cheap!
“...Dr Adam Katz, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia medical school, said; “I can’t see why there would be a black market for fat. In most countries we can get fat so readily and in such amounts from people who are willing and ready to donate that I don’t see why there would ever be a black market for fat, of all tissues.”
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Perhaps there is an underground market Dr. Katz is unaware of, but it seems rather obvious that human fat could be obtained much more cheaply and easily by way of liposuction a la Tyler Durden of Fight Club.
Unless there’s a juju/iko awo component in which it has to be taken from someone specifically murdered for it?
People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.
“Colonel Mejia said that the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police that it was worth $60,000 a gallon”
Gets out my tape measure, some calcalatin...Hmm I think I can retire.
My brother has been to Peru and says it’s a lovely country. Of course, no black marketeers would come after him for his fat...he doesn’t have any. Ha!
Sounds like they were attempting to live off of the “fat of the land!”
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