The Independent points out that human fat is readily available from liposuction, should anyone want it, and that it doesn't really do anything special for your skin. Police however, maintain that they've busted just one of several "international criminal network[s] trafficking human fat".
"We have broken up a criminal organisation dedicated to trafficking bodily fluids and human fat," said local police commander Angel Toledo, on Thursday. The large containers of illicit fat were latter decanted into bottles for export, he added.
"Without a doubt [the gang] have committed various crimes like kidnapping and conspiring to commit criminal acts. [They] have spoken about how they committed crimes with the purpose of extracting their fat in rudimentary laboratories to later sell for the price of $15,000 (£9,000) per litre."
Whether or not they were actually able to sell said fat to mysterious evil Europeans has not been established. It does seem however, that they were actually harvesting it.
Regardless of their commercial success, the gang seems, at the very least, to have perfected the art of fat-extraction. Two of Col Meija's suspects, Serapio Marcos Veramendi and Enedina Estela were arrested at a bus stop in Huanuco province carrying soft-drink bottles filled with an amber liquidised substance that lab tests later showed was liquidised human fat.
The duo claim to have been en route to Lima, roughly 300 miles south, where the contents of the bottles were to be sold to intermediaries. A further six of their alleged accomplices, including two members of the Italian mafia, and the organisation's alleged leader, Hilario Cudena, 56, remain at large.
Peruvian gang 'killed peasant farmers for their fat' [Independent]
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait....
I can sell my fat??
]]>@james: Honey, you find em, please let me know! I'll even let you sell my fat to em, lol
]]>I make my own fat at home.
Wait. That sounds reasonable.
]]>@hi: also the drugs doctors put people on for depression and other things makes people gain weight.
btw: I know we dont all work in cubicles ..
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]]>@floraposte: Not to mention we all have to work 8 hours a day and sit in a cubicle all day and are so tired when we get home we just want to sleep and not exercise... or cook a decent meal.
note: I'm not over weight, but I'm sure someone out there is that will attest to this fact nobody ever seems to bring up.
]]>I am Jack's Utter Lack of Suprise
]]>The first rule of Fat Club is you don't talk about Fat Club!
]]>What a clean way to lose weight!
]]>No Walmart in Peru...yet.
]]>Except here it's selling rich women the skinny asses of poor people.
]]>The disappearance of many fat Americans would be noticed by changes in Earth's gravitational field.
]]>Of course, in this case, it would really make more sense to kidnap people and get them drunk off their asses if it's urine that they're after...
Another more morbid story involved people trafficking human livers, because apparently some people believe that consuming ground up human livers cures liver disease.
]]>And - if this is real, I wonder if whoever was buying was planning on declaring it as actual rendered human fat, or were planning on marketing it as something else. That would likely be much easier to sell.
(Oh gods - "Product of the rainforest"! Nah - Huanuco isn't rainforest. They wouldn't sink that low, right?)
]]>@G.O.B.: Come on!: Seriously, saw the headline and this was the first thing that popped into my mind. Didn't even get to see the picture on my phone before that came to mind.
]]>Eat McDonalds constantly, get lipo once a year, become rich.
]]>@Preyfar: Except they will only give you 1/3 the value of your fat unless you call them to say that you don't accep their initial offer.
(also, +1 to you!)
]]>- Confine them in an all you can eat paradise
- When they're ripe, knock em out with gas
- suck the fat out of them
- repeat.
I mean, if you kidnap 'em and kill 'em, eventually, you'll run out of resources (assuming you're killing 'em faster than they can reproduce).
]]>this seems like the plot of a movie
you know, the kind of movie where the main character is insane, and (SPOILER ALERT) actually is the other main character?
Fatness seems more like a lazy middle class, middle aged office worker problem.
]]>I wonder if they were staking out the local WalMart because that is where I would go if I was looking for fatties.
]]>Oh Lawd... What are these other "bodily fluids" they traffic? I hope it's just blood...
]]>Teehee -- they "remain at large".
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