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OnyxCougar

10-13-2003 08:19 AM

Suspected Penis Snatcher Beaten to Death

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BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) - 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, police said.

A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was killed Thursday by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, nine 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.

OK, so let's just accept we have a small penis and not blame the local sorcerors, please.

slang

10-13-2003 08:26 AM

But what if you've never been to Africa. Then who should I...er, someone blame?

OnyxCougar

10-13-2003 09:03 AM

Maybe limiting contact with people and/or shrinking or stealing their penis is part of the fight against HIV?

xoxoxoBruce

10-13-2003 09:39 AM

Maybe beating someone makes some of them grow.

OnyxCougar

10-13-2003 10:22 AM

OMG the pun there... bad, Bruce... so bad...

xoxoxoBruce

10-13-2003 10:55 AM

No, no, I just meant some people get a woody being violent to others.

darclauz

10-13-2003 12:34 PM

Here in America, it works differently. For instance, my sister in law just had to marry my brother to take his.

wolf	10-13-2003 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by slang
But what if you've never been to Africa. Then who should I...er, someone blame?

Not me.

You sure you didn't just put it in the safe again and forget?

elSicomoro

10-13-2003 12:45 PM

"But now and then, I go to a party, get drunk, and the next morning, I can't for the life of me remember what I did with it."--King Missile

Elspode

10-13-2003 03:02 PM

There's just something inherently wrong with the phrase "penis snatcher".

Funny how just the addition of two extraneous letters can put an entirely new spin on something would have seemed pleasant at first.

ThisOleMiss

10-16-2003 03:51 PM

What do they do with the penis once they have stolen it? I mean, it's not an item you'd take down to the local hock shop, throw on the counter, and ask "how much for a penis?" Do they have them stuffed and mounted (no pun intended) like a trophey? Use them for paperweights?

Way back when, when Witch Burning was sort of a hobby to the Inquisistion, a book called "Mallus Malficum" (yes I know it's spelled wrong) accused witches of stealing men's penis's and hiding them in bird nests. Rather comic until you realize that people actually believed this and that women could be put to death by such an absurb acusation.

Thought we knew better these days.

Wonder what the predominate religion in area is.

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