Seriously messed up news

[gfish]

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.

What what what? Sometimes reality gets a bit too weird.

Comments

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

What the whaaaat.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Is "cosmetic uses" better or worse than soap?

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

If this were true, why doesn't every plastic surgeon advertise free liposuction?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Truth is *always* stranger than fiction.

But this is pushing it. Yeeeeesh.

[evilmicrowizard.livejournal.com]

Starting to look like it never actually happened:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/01/world/AP-LT-Peru-Murder-Ring.html?scp=3&sq=peru%20fat&st=cse