'Pumping Party' Trial: 'Bizarre, Flamboyant, Unusual" - Transsexuals Testify ...

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[narses]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- In the opening statements of a Fort Lauderdale murder trial, one lawyer told jurors to be ready for the "bizarre, flamboyant and unusual."

The trial is for two men, one who looks like a woman, both accused of killing a woman at a "pumping party" where they injected silicone to enlarge her buttocks.

Mark Hawkins and Donnie Hendricks, who prefers to use the name "Viva," are accused practicing medicine without a license, and of injecting so much silicone into Vera Lawrence (pictured, left) that it caused her death.

The pair is alleged to have injected 12,000 cc's of industrial strength silicone into each of Lawrence's buttocks.

According to witnesses in pre-trial hearings, Hawkins and Hendricks charged up to $1,000 per pumping party. Most of the witnesses are transsexual men who went to the parties for "body-sculpting."

Defense attorney George Reres said it was Lawrence's desire to have "insane" amount of silicone injected into her body over the course of five years that over time caused her to essentially take her own life.

Reres also told jurors to be prepared to hear testimony from witnesses who are not just "drag queens, but are also drama queens."

[Cicero]

[For your viewing pleasure]

[Tennessee_Bob]

Jeremy Middleton

Vera Lawrence (the deceased)

Mark Hawkins

[Petronski]

This isn't medical supply house silicone, this is Home Depot silicone. Sheesh.

[Yardstick]

The pic mentioned in the article

[Petronski]

12,000ccs

Twelve litres?

[Tennessee_Bob]

BTW - Jeremy Middleton was a previous "victim" of the two on trial - a quote: "I was injected with bad silicone," Middleton said. "It was supposed to be used for furniture."

Go figure...

[narses]

Soddom meets Gomorrah.

[narses]

About three GALLONS (over 20 POUNDS) of industrial silicone.

[Malsua]

Contrast this to this Urban legend...

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``The government must crack down on this disgusting craze of `Pumping','' a spokesman for the Nakhon Ratchasima hospital told reporters. ``If this perversion catches on, it will destroy the cream of Thailand's manhood.''

He was speaking after the remains of 13 year-old Charnchai Puanmuangpak had been brought into the hospital's emergency department. ``Most Pumpers use a standard bicycle pump,'' he explained, ``sticking the nozzzle up their rectum and giving themselves a rush of air. Not only is that a sin against God, but it can be dangerous even for onlookers. Charnchai took it further still. He started using a two-cylinder foot pump, but even that wasn't exciting enough for him, and he boasted to friends that he was going to try the compressed air hose at a nearby gasoline station. They dared him to do it so, under cover of darkness, he sneaked in. Not realising how powerful the machine was, he inserted the tube into his body, and placed a 1 baht coin in the slot. Of course, he died instantly, but passers by are still in shock. One woman though she was watching a twilight firework display and started clapping. We still haven't located all of him.

``Pumping is the devil's pastime, and we must all say no to satan,'' he concluded. ``Inflate your tyres by all means, but then hide your bicycle pump where it cannot tempt you.''

[Billthedrill]

Yeh - I did the math too. Pray it's a misprint. 12 liters of silicone? What did she/he/it want to do, hire out as a pier bumper for supertankers?

[Petronski]

Twelve litres - three gallons - twenty pounds....of industrial silicone?

This ain't exactly Blue Cross / Blue Shield...

[narses]

An innovative way towards suicide. Or, consenting adults enjoying their civil liberties.

[Petronski]

12 liters of silicone? What did she/he/it want to do, hire out as a pier bumper for supertankers?

Just what the hell kind of HMO are they running out there?

[narses]

A Libertarian one?

[Cvengr]

``Inflate your tyres by all means, but then hide your bicycle pump where it cannot tempt you.''

If I remember correctly, God had a method to alleviate the problem of overinflation in Tyre.

[mountaineer]

You mean, something like this?

[Polycarp]

(Hope you're wearing your flame retardent flannels...don't you know not to challenge the libertarian hoards?)

[Cvengr]

``sticking the nozzzle up their rectum and giving themselves a rush of air. Not only is that a sin against God, but it can be dangerous even for onlookers.

Our instinct says, "Gee, thanks for the visual!-sarcasm off

Only problem is that our society has been so tactful regarding the issue of homosexuality that many forget that the particular visual is what homosexuality is all about.

Just remind your liberal friends next time they eat at a gay owned restaurant, that the chef is a homosexual, and add the visual about how homosexuality amongst 'gay' men generally implies a sexual infatuation of playing with somebody else's rectum or feces and that person is busy preparing their salad and beef crepe. It tends to place things in better perspective.