Police in Peru have arrested five members of a gang suspected of killing people for their fat, which they would drain from the victims' bodies and sell on the international black market as a treatment for wrinkles. While experts are skeptical that such a market exists, I don't think we should be so quick to dismiss it: Given the demographics of this country, this may in fact be the perfect method by which we subsidize health care.
Friday, November 20, 2009
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M'eh. Early Cronenberg at best.
Call me when someone has figured out how to harvest eyes, and put them into other people, but then you like... see a crime that the original person saw - in your dreams, and everyone suspects Vincent D'Onofrio but really it was William H. Macy.
Kinda like an organic Strange Days? That movie was equal parts cheesy and unsettling.
James Cameron couldn't write an original piece of dialogue if he transcribed it from a tape recorder.
I know! It's a good thing that the majority of his oeuvre consists of people having conversation with robots.
or so you could spoof the retinal scanners and get free subway rides for life?
Oil of Jose.
He's croaking in it.
Wasn't there an easier way?
right? like liposuction or something?
There's probably OIL DRUMS of the stuff buried under Beverly Hills.
@ Hired Goons: Increasingly, it's recycled immediately. Why risk disease from unknown donors when you can put your own ass to your lips?
Hey Editors, can we have a DO NOT READ WHILE EATING tag? Please? Blergh.
How much a product of my generation I am was really highlighted for me by this story.
I read this in the early morning hours, with bleary eyes and thought, "This was obviously for soap."
Yup.
I'm really glad I'm not alone. Or, are we the same person? Please make this stop!
I am Juan Valdez's smirking revenge.
Fat is a protection against wrinkles? So - should I lose weight or gain weight?
There is some old saying about after 40 you choose your ass or your face. Either you keep some weight on so your face does not look so wrinkly or you lose weight so your body does not look so lumpy.
It's like Sophie's Choice for old people?
Never mind filling in wrinkles. Some MIT brainiak should find a way to at a fueling station, syfon fat from us while converting it to fuel.