Suspected Penis Snatcher is Beaten to Death [View All]

[Pert_UK]

" 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia, police say.

A police spokesman told Reuters on Thursday that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, some 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."

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031010/80/eaqfj.html

"She turned me into a newt!!!...............err......I got better..."

I try to maintain a detached, anthropological sense of cultural relativism and I suspect that there is a grain of truth buried somewhere in this story, but a very basic part of me just wants to scream, "YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!!!"

I don't know, what do you think.......was this guy slipping Speed into their food and they were waking up with 4 inches less than last night? Or is this just a macho thing, with men desperately wanting to claim that "It used to be huge, but someone shrank it!", and this guy was just the scape goat?