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Suspected penis snatcher beaten to death by mob
Reuters ^
| Posted October 10 2003, 10:10 AM EDT
| Reuters
Posted on 10/15/2003 11:29:44 AM PDT by akbaines
BANJUL, Gambia - A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia Thursday, police said.
A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, about 9 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.
The police spokesman said many men in Serekunda were now afraid to shake hands, and he urged people not to believe reports of ``vanishing'' genitals. Belief in sorcery is widespread in West Africa.
Seven alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs in Ghana in 1997.
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Something to make you smile in amazement, as long as you haven't been a victim of a snatching case!
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:29:44 AM PDT
by
akbaines
To: akbaines
Posted for the umpteenth time.
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:31:49 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(..........................all my pings are belong to ......YOU.....................)
To: akbaines
I did not mean smile about the lynching, just in case someone wanted to try to attack me for my little note.
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:32:00 AM PDT
by
akbaines
(Bush 2004)
To: mhking; RadioAstronomer
ping
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:32:24 AM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: akbaines
So if someone snatches my car, it's called car jacking. ANd if someone steals my...nevermind.
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:32:30 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(All your jacking belong to us.)
To: akbaines
More American tax money will rationalize them.
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:33:47 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: akbaines
I guess we'll have to bring the poor penis snatching victims to the U.S. for a Medicaid paid penile transplant. They could send them to San Francisco and use the discarded penises of transexuals.
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:37:01 AM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
(((Always watch your crotch)))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Great Idea!!! They would also not be able to be denied a job even if they choose to now dress as a monkey woman.
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:42:09 AM PDT
by
akbaines
(Bush 2004)
To: akbaines
NO LAUGHING!
Valuing the Difference of the Multicultural Diversity Alert!
Who are we to judge a superior Third World Culture by our Western, capitalist, imperialist, homophobic, war-mongering, racist standards?
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posted on
10/15/2003 11:44:14 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: akbaines
Really baby, it was a lot bigger than this until that penis snatcher put the whammy on me today. But it will grow back, just you wait and see.
To: akbaines
Maybe they are in cahoots with the penile enlargement scam artists.
To: VRWCmember
Hey, that stuff really works!
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posted on
10/15/2003 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
akbaines
(Bush 2004)
To: VRWCmember
Could be. This is series but evidently not hugh.
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posted on
10/15/2003 12:48:35 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(On October 11, 2003 I asked Laura Earl to be my wife. "Well sure, I mean, I guess", was her answer.)
To: Flurry
the story kinda raised my funnybone.
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posted on
10/15/2003 3:49:12 PM PDT
by
herewego
To: herewego
My funny bone is missing. Laura Earl and I are getting married next spring. I don't know what to tell her!!!!
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posted on
10/15/2003 6:04:36 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(On October 11, 2003 I asked Laura Earl to be my wife. "Well sure, I mean, I guess", was her answer.)
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