For beggars, less is more…
This could be the most shocking story of the year. We can only hope. The “We’re not in Kansas anymore” award goes to India, where a sting operation found doctors apparently agreeing to amputate the healthy limbs of beggars, so they would be more sympathetic.“Believe me if there are two beggars in front of you and one of them is lame, you will give the money to the lame beggar,” the sting operation recorded one doctor as saying.
Secretly filmed footage apparently shows one of the doctors asking for about $215 to amputate a lower leg. He then suggests chopping off three fingers from a man’s left hand. Here is the story:
posted by Evil Genius @ 11:43 PM
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Man...this is DEFINITELY one for the "Now I've Heard Everything" file. Amazing that people would WANT to do it. Worse that someone would not only knowingly facilitate such a horrific thing, but charge them to mutilate their bodies to achieve it in doing so.
Only in America? Apparently not.
(Heh...my verification word was 'chaos', how interesting.)
I don't think you can imagine the degree of desperation in these third world countries. Someone from Nepal was telling me how people there do hard labor in the fields 16 hours a day every day and still have trouble making enough to eat. It seems criminal that I'm surrounded by luxuries here while these people have nothing. In India, it's easy and cheap to get volunteers for medical experiments. Hey, people even sell their kids into sexual slavery.
update your blog, slacker.
That is the so utterly shocking! I mean, I had heard of how doctor's in India enable sex-selection by aborting millions of female fetuses, but to amputate a healthy limb!!! Wow, that takes the cake.
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