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Penis Theifs Imprisoned
It’s still there
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
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.
“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.
Perhaps they could regain their mojo by joining the Japanese Fertility Festival
Tipping the Scales: Bad Smoke
Mary Jane put on some weight
Earlier this month, the New England Journal of Medicine reported on an outbreak of lead poisoning among young people in Leipzig Germany.
None of the patients had any of the usual environmental risks for lead poisoning so the surge was a mystery.
However, after much investigation, a common link was found: they all were pot smokers.
When some patients provided the investigators with samples of their stash, one showed visual evidence of lead particles (see photo below).
The dealers were adding lead to their dime bags to increase the selling weights. Some 100 people ended up needing treatment for lead poisoning.
Legalisation of marijuana would eliminate such risks.
The Other War
It’s time to stop ruining lives over drugs
Writers for The Wire say enough is enough…
If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun’s manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.
In Full: Time: The Wire’s War on the Drug War
Quality of life Offenses
What I Learned in Jail Last Night
Arrested for drinking a beer.
After taking away my beer, the cute-but-weathered strawberry-blonde lady cop who arrested me put me in a van with two other quality-of-life violators: an old homeless Polish man named Bogden, and a seventeen-year-old black kid named Kevia. Both were arrested for “outstretch”: taking up more than one seat on the subway, or lying down on the seats.
We sat in the van for two hours while officers tried to round up another “body,” as they’re called, for the night’s sweep. “Doin’ a big sweep on quality-of-life offenses,” I heard the baldheaded, babyfaced male cop tell someone on his cellphone. He talked with my arresting officer:
“Billy’s officially ruined the unit. It’s ovah. It’s completely ovah.” He shook his head.
“He’s the only what who really believes in what we do, though,” the lady cop sighed.
In Full: What I Learned in Jail Last Night
Related: Man charged with murder when cop chasing him has heart attack…
