10-20-2003, 10:01 AM | #1 (permalink) |
Exhausted
Location: Northeastern US - please send help!
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Anyone feel sorry for this guy?
Or, like me, are you just too damned busy grabbing your crotch and cringing?
Man Cuts Off His Genitals to Win Sympathy DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A Tanzanian man cut off his genitals in an attempt to win sympathy from creditors after squandering their money on prostitutes and alcohol, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The 24-year-old reached the decision after realizing he could not pay back millions of shillings lent to him by friends and relatives to invest in a business venture. The Guardian newspaper said the man's condition was improving after he received treatment at his local hospital in the east African country's northern Manyara region. The report said it was the second such incident in the area in two months. Another man slashed off his genitals upon failing to settle a 300,000 shilling ($287) debt. $287?? Good God, man, I'd have loaned it to ya! And I don't even know you!
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10-20-2003, 10:21 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Super Agitator
Location: Just SW of Nowhere!!! In the good old US of A
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Guess the carving project took care of half his problem - Now if he'll just go on the wagon he'll have it made.
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10-20-2003, 10:29 AM | #4 (permalink) |
I change
Location: USA
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Yes. I feel sorry for people who do stupid things all the time.
If I didn't - I would be feeling sorry for almost nobody. Why? Because we are all the main cause of our own problems. Not too much different from this guy actually. He's one of us - imagine that!
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10-20-2003, 10:40 AM | #5 (permalink) |
Adrift
Location: Wandering in the Desert of Life
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What a complete boob! I pray this guy has not procreated, the human race has enough problems without this guy diluting the gene pool. Guess we don't have to worry about that any more.
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10-20-2003, 12:48 PM | #7 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: slippery rock university AKA: The left ass cheek of the world
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I'm torn between feeling sorry and feeling that if he had died it would have been a good example of natural selection at it's finest.
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10-20-2003, 01:03 PM | #10 (permalink) |
Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash
Location: oregon
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how can such an action be justified for debt payment? how does that relate to one another or solve anything.. what an idiot.
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10-20-2003, 01:06 PM | #11 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: that place with the thing
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i've got nothing but sympathy for him.
i mean, imagine being pushed into a corner in which the only egress is to castrate yourself... i guess it doesn't really matter just how bad his situation is to us, but rather how bad it was to him. i can't see ever cutting my nuts off, but it's a good real-worl parallel to that joke in which a husband who plays around awakes to find his dick stuck in a vice, a hacksaw in his hand, and flames running up the walls.
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10-20-2003, 01:11 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!!
Location: IN, USA
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10-20-2003, 01:36 PM | #14 (permalink) |
You + Me = Us
Location: California dreaming...
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I guess he figured since he spent their money on prostitutes (sex) he'd cut it off to show he was sorry and to repent for what he had done. I don't feel sorry for him. Not because what he did may be seen as stupid but because he did it on purpose, it's what he wanted.
Reminds me of Oedipus (erm, sorry if I misspelt it).
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10-21-2003, 03:30 AM | #18 (permalink) |
I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning!
Location: K-Town, TN
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I don't feel that much sympathy...but it DOES freak me out that a man would go that far. Any objections?
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10-21-2003, 09:02 AM | #23 (permalink) |
Junk
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I don't feel sorry for people who do stupid things at all.We all make choices in life and we have to live with them.I choose to feel sorry for people who have no control over the unfortunate life they have been given through whatever malady.
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10-21-2003, 11:12 AM | #24 (permalink) |
It wasnt me
Location: Scotland
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He can get another dick, easy.
Just has to have a sex-change...mind you, it wont be his own... Urghhh I have sympathy for the desperation he must have felt, but not much admiration for his smarts.
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10-21-2003, 02:17 PM | #28 (permalink) |
I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot!
Location: Upper Michigan
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Anyone who deliberately harms himself for attention or sympathy will get no sympathy from me. It's pathetic and doesn't solve anything. Be a man (even a dickless one) and do something about your problem not mangle your being to gain other's pity. That is just pure stupidity. Glad he won't be fostering any more children like him.
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10-21-2003, 04:04 PM | #29 (permalink) | |
I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning!
Location: K-Town, TN
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