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1910 Apr 15 |
In San Francisco detective Tim Riordan arrested Jolly Trixie, aka Miss Kitty Plunkett, for allegedly violating the Penal Code. She was accused of being deformed and exhibiting her deformity in a Fillmore Street show house. Plunkett said she weighed only 585 pounds as opposed to the alleged 685 pounds. 2 physicians testified that she was perfectly symmetrical. Links: USA, SF, Whacko 
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2009 Dec 17 |
In Brazil a 2-year-old boy with 42 sewing needles stuck in him was airlifted to another hospital in northeastern Bahia state because two of the needles were close to his heart. A police official said Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, the boy's stepfather, had been arrested, that he had confessed to sticking the needles into the boy with the help of a woman and that authorities were investigating whether black magic was involved. On Dec 18 doctors removed 4 of the most life-threatening needles. Links: Brazil, Kids, Whacko
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2010 Jan 11 |
Pakistani police in Karachi arrested a couple on charges of stabbing their 3-month-old baby to death. A witch doctor had advised them to kill the girl after telling them it would make them rich. Links: Pakistan, Murder, Whacko
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2010 Apr 16 |
In Iran cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, the acting prayer leader of Tehran, said women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. Links: Iran, Earthquake, Women, Whacko
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2010 Aug 26 |
A Sri Lankan housemaid, L. T. Ariyawathi (49), was admitted to a hospital and planned to undergo surgery to remove 24 nails embedded in her body. Ariyawathi said her employer in Saudi Arabia had inflicted the injuries on her as a punishment. The woman traveled to Saudi Arabia in March and returned home last week, complaining of abuse by her employer. Links: Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Whacko
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2010 Oct 14 |
Mozambique state radio said a court in has sentenced two men to 20 years in prison each for mutilating a 12-year-old boy and trying to sell his body parts to a witchdoctor. The report said the two men, the boy's uncle and another, held the boy down, cut out his eyes and removed his genitals, intending to sell them to a Malawian witchdoctor. The boy survived. Links: Mozambique, Whacko
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2011 Jun 11 |
It was reported that Harold Camping (89), the doomsday preacher who had recently predicted that the world would end on May 21, suffered a stroke. The radio evangelist was expected to recover, but the stroke might end his Family Radio ministry, since he was suffering from slurred speech. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Whacko, Doomsday
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2011 Jun 17 |
The Ynet website reported that a Jerusalem rabbinical court has condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago. Links: Israel, Animal, Religion, Whacko
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2011 Oct |
Zimbabwe police arrested three alleged sperm-hunting women, found with a plastic bag of 31 used condoms. They were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men. Reports of sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009. Sperm-hunting charges against the women were dropped in May, 2012, but the state decided to prosecute two of the women on a lesser charge of "loitering for the purposes of prostitution", punishable by a fine. Links: Sex, Zimbabwe, Whacko
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2012 May 17 |
Thailand police in Bangkok seized 6 human fetuses, which had been roasted and covered in gold leaf as part of a black magic ritual, from Chow Hok Kuen (28), a British citizen. The corpses had been packed into luggage and were set to be smuggled to Taiwan. Links: Thailand, Whacko
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2012 Nov 20 |
A woman (37) in Sweden was charged "with violating the peace of the deceased" after investigators found some 100 skeleton parts in her apartment. Police also found a CD titled "My Necrophilia" as well as photographs in which a woman is seen kissing and hugging the skulls. Links: Sweden, Whacko
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2019 Aug 14 |
In Texas David Shawn Minze (39) was sentenced to 70 years in prison after a jury convicted him of felony assault for heating up a belt buckle and using it to brand his girlfriend. Links: USA, Texas, Whacko
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2019 Oct 15 |
In the Netherlands six young adults and their father were receiving medical treatment after Dutch police acting on a tip-off discovered them locked away in a secret room at an isolated farm. The family, according to local news reports, had been waiting for the end of time. Links: Netherlands, Whacko
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2019 Dec 16 |
Hawaii police Officer John Rabago admitted in federal court that he trapped Sam Ingall in a restroom in January 2018 and gave him an ultimatum: lick a urinal or face arrest. He had previously denied the charges against him and another officer, Reginald Ramones, who pleaded guilty in September. Links: USA, Hawaii, Whacko
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2020 Aug 29 |
It was reported that attackers armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations. Links: France, Animal, Whacko
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