What chu talkin bout Willis? Strange stories....

[Marko69]

that is just flat out disgusting....

No......., tiger penis soup is ok. Especially with crispy croutons.

[Tony G]

Well at least the babies were dead before they put them in the capsules....

How does one get "powdered flesh"? A dehydrator? I hope they don't have baby jerky...

[LionsFanInJapan]

Oh Japan, you are so crazy...

Police investigate man who cooked his own genitals

Police are investigating whether a man who cooked his own severed genitals and served them to five paying diners committed a crime, investigators said Tuesday.

Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them frozen for two months before cooking them at a public event in May.

Diners each paid 20,000 yen for a portion.

The police probe came after the mayor of Suginami Ward, where the event took place, said it had involved the display of obscene objects.

?Many residents of Suginami and elsewhere have expressed a sense of discomfort and feeling of apprehension over this,? Mayor Ryo Tanaka said in a statement.

A Tokyo police spokeswoman acknowledged the complaint, but declined to give further details, citing ?an ongoing investigation.?

Sugiyama, a painter in his 20s who defines himself as ?asexual,? did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In an email to AFP in May, he confirmed the event had taken place and said it was organized to raise awareness about ?sexual minorities, x-gender, asexual people.?

In tweets on May 18, the artist said steps were taken so his act met all relevant laws, including a ban on organ sales, processing of medical waste and even food sanitation requirements.

Sugiyama said his genitals had been removed by a physician and certified free of infections.

I'm not sure what's stranger about this story. The fact that the guy did it in the first place, or the fact that people actually paid $200 each to eat some...

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/police-investigate-man-who-cooked-his-own-genitals-for-5-diners

[Malto Marko]

Are you sure they knew what was on the menu?

[LionsFanInJapan]

From the story, it sounds like they did.

[DeanUK]

Ok, I'll go first:-

Cock Au Vin

Spaghetti Bollocknase

[Malto Marko]

Stir fried Mao sausage with nuts.

Flaming Sugiyama.

Mao pearl sushi.

[Marko69]

Spotted dick with meatballs

[Coop]

..nothing to read here...

[DanO]

LOL, at the menu names. I heard this story a couple weeks ago.

[Panoptes]

Peen-sum aka ding-a-ling-sum and ballgrau

[*JD*]

Dick N McNuggets

[Panoptes]

Police to search Michigan driveway for labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/27...#ixzz27j9O3aHH


DETROIT ? A tip from a dying man could finally be the missing clue in the mystery of what happened to Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished 37 years ago.

MyFoxDetroit.com reports investigators are searching the ground beneath a suburban Detroit driveway after a man told authorities he saw a body being put into the ground around the same time Hoffa disappeared. The man is said to be dying of cancer and was not identified by police.

After the tip was received by the Roseville Police Department, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground penetrating radar on a 12-foot-by-12-foot patch beneath the driveway, said agency spokesman Brad Wurfel.

It found "that the earth had been disturbed at some point in time," Berlin said.

The environmental quality department on Friday will take soil samples that will be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to "have it tested for human decomposition," Berlin said.

Results are not expected until next week. Police also plan to dig at the home on Friday.

Roseville Police Chief James Berlin tells MyFoxDetroit.com he believes something may be buried there, but he isn't sure it is the body of Hoffa.

"We are not claiming it's Jimmy Hoffa, the timeline doesn't add up," Berlin said. "We're investigating a body that may be at the location."

Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975, outside a suburban Detroit restaurant where he was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain. His body has not been found despite a number of searches over the years.

Innumerable theories about the demise of the union boss have surfaced over time. Among them: He was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown in a Florida swamp or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.

The search has continued under a backyard pool north of Detroit in 2003, under the floor of a Detroit home in 2004 and at a horse farm northwest of Detroit in 2006.

The FBI had no immediate comment on the new effort in Roseville to The Associated Press.

[Malto Marko]

My guess is the guy is looking for a new driveway and using this as a possible way to get one on the Feds dime.

[Panoptes]

WTF?

Is becoming a 'bagel head' dangerous?



If you thought Japan's extreme fad culture would stop short of people injecting saline into their foreheads to make it look like they have bagels implanted under their skin, you were wrong. Being a "bagel head" is, indeed, currently in vogue in Tokyo.

The bizarre body modification procedure, which was highlighted in a Sept. 23 episode of "Taboo," a show on the National Geographic Channel, involves injecting about 13.5 ounces (400 milliliters) of saline into a person's forehead to form a huge welt, then pressing a thumb into the welt to create an indent. The process takes two hours, and the trendy swelling goes down in under a day.

Related: Bagel head trend on the rise in Japan

Questions about what is going through these people's bagel-shaped heads aside, is this fad dangerous?

Potentially, says Omar Ibrahimi, a dermatologist at the Connecticut Skin Institute and visiting assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, who has had experience injecting saline solution into bodies during cosmetic procedures. The risks of bagel-heading are threefold, Ibrahimi said.

First, the body can safely absorb normal saline solution injected under the skin, and doctors sometimes use it as a form of local anesthesia; however, "saline solution that is too concentrated can overload the body's capacity to process salt," Ibrahimi told Life's Little Mysteries. If a naive bagel head were to accidentally use highly-concentrated hypertonic saline solution instead of the normal kind, for example, he or she could experience extreme dehydration of the kind that happens when you drink salt water.

Secondly, if the saline solution isn't sterile, there's "a lot of risk of bacterial or fungal infection," Ibrahimi said. Most of the pathogens commonly found in unsterilized water can be killed off by the immune system when ingested into the digestive tract; however, the pathogens have a higher chance of gaining a foothold when escorted directly beneath the skin, such as during bagel-head surgery.

Water contamination is also one of the lesser-known risks of getting a tattoo. Just last month, the use of unsterile water as a diluting agent in tattoo ink resulted in a spate of bacterial infections across four U.S. states. Such infections cause painful rashes that can last months, requiring strong antibiotic regimens and sometimes surgery to eradicate.

But even perfectly sterilized saline solution of the ideal concentration could leave bagel heads deeply regretting their ultra-fashionableness. And considering that this last risk is aesthetic, it might make more headway in putting an end to the trend.

"I'd be worried that if people did this repeatedly you might actually, indeed, stretch the skin beyond its normal elasticity, and this could cause permanent laxity," Ibrahimi said.

In other words, bagel heads could become deflated-bagel heads: A fashion mishap in anybody's book.