Posted on 01/18/2007 4:19:28 PM PST by blam
'Half-human half-animal' found
By Sebastien Berger, South East Asia Correspondent
Last Updated: 7:47pm GMT 18/01/2007
A Cambodian who emerged naked from the jungle to scavenge for food is thought to have lived in the wild for almost 20 years and to have learnt to live like an animal.
Villagers in Rattanakiri province, close to the Vietnamese border, spotted the woman trying to steal food and after she was captured last Saturday a policeman identified her as his long-lost daughter.
Her father, Sal Lou, 45, claimed he recognised Rochom P'ngieng by her facial features and a scar.
She disappeared in 1988 at eight years old, while herding buffalo in the remote jungle area, about 325 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh.
Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district, described the woman as "half-human and half-animal."
"When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending-forward position like a monkey. She was bare-bones skinny," Mr Lou said.
"She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat. Her eyes were red like tigers' eyes."
The woman, though, is unable to speak, so cannot identify herself or explain what happened to her, how she survived, or why she did not seek help.
"She is strange," said Prey Chhlam, a deputy police chief in Rattanakiri. "She looks half-human and half-animal. She is like a wild person."
The woman is now living with Sal Lou's family, who are watching her closely as they have difficulty communicating - she pats her stomach to signal she is hungry.
"If she is not sleeping, she just sits and glances left and right, left and right," Sal Lou added.
Authorities said they wanted to carry out DNA tests to verify the truth of the claims.
What are they talking about? We've known about Rosie O'Donnell for years.
I have named her Mowglia.
She was nocturnal because she was raised by Bagheera
I was hoping to never hear of my ex sister in law!
"We've known about Rosie O'Donnell for years."
Article: "She was bare-bones skinny"
Rosie would resemble something more like and overstuffed wild boar.
I was just going off the headline.
Oh, Lord. I thought they found my second wife. WHEW!
I'm going to think this applies to the claims of parentage and not the "half-animal" thing.
JERRY: "Hospital receives grant to conduct DNA research".." Government funds genetic research at area hospital" ...Yeah, so?
KRAMER: Pigman, baby. Pigman.
ELAINE: Oh, if I hear about this pigman one more time...
KRAMER: I'm tellin ya the pigman is alive. The governments been experimenting with pigmen since the fifties.
JERRY: Will you stop it. Just because a hospital gets a grant to study DNA doesn't mean they are creating a race of mutant pigmen.
KRAMER: Oh. Jerry wake up to reality. It's military thing. They're probably creating a whole army of pig warriors.
GEORGE: I wish there were pigmen. You get a few of these pigmen walking around I'm looking a whole lot better. Then if somebody wants to fix me up at least they could say, "Hey he's no pig-man!"
Jodie Foster?
Blam - duplicate post to which I nearly pinged you. Thinking you would add a scientific angle to the story;)
see below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769723/posts
learnt to talk like one too....
I may have dated her in the 70s.....
Disabled people are not half-animal!
Do you have so many that you have to give them numbers? LOL!
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