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-- This. Is Not. Kinshasa


Posted by VERTiG0 on Apr-23-2008 09:11:

This. Is Not. Kinshasa

Ahahahahahhahaha it doesn't get any better than this shit right here


http://www.reuters.com/article/news...290323220080422

quote:
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.


Posted by Abercrombie on Apr-23-2008 13:25:

It's true, I'm living proof.


Posted by Intangible on Apr-23-2008 13:40:

Hmmmmmm I know a couple guys who Id like to come in contact with these 'sorcerers'....


Posted by Abercrombie on Apr-23-2008 14:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Intangible
Hmmmmmm I know a couple guys who Id like to come in contact with these 'sorcerers'....


I too, went out of necessity


Posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* on Apr-23-2008 14:51:

All I read was the first line and almost shat my pants. I couldn't take any more hahahahahahaha


Posted by lopi on Apr-23-2008 14:57:

quote:
Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
All I read was the first line and almost shat my pants.


So that smell wasn't coming from your purse then...




Posted by chinamon on Apr-23-2008 16:05:

the article forgot to mention that they were using ancient japanese spells.


Posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* on Apr-23-2008 16:18:

quote:
Originally posted by lopi
So that smell wasn't coming from your purse then...





nope! hahaha


Posted by Rook on Apr-23-2008 16:59:

i have some family from that area, and none of this surprises me.

Some of the stories that come from there are extremely morbid.


Posted by VERTiG0 on Apr-23-2008 18:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Rook
Some of the stories that come from there are extremely morbid.


Do tell!


Posted by samhouse on Apr-23-2008 20:55:

shocking!


Posted by DigiNut on Apr-24-2008 01:44:

"Baby, I swear, it is normally much bigger! Louis put a spell on it this morning!"


Posted by neuromancer on Apr-24-2008 02:05:

^^ It seems your avatar also fell victim of the penis snatchers


Posted by Abercrombie on Apr-24-2008 02:09:

^ LOL



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