What on Earth is going on in the world today? It's gone mad

[Front242]

Huh?! This is pretty f'd up.

A restaurant has reportedly been shut down following allegations it was serving its customers human flesh.
According to BBC News Swahili, visitors to the hotel restaurant in Anambra, Nigeria, notified police that there were rumours that human meat was being given to customers.
The BBC reports that when police raided the restaurant, they found to their horror that fresh human heads – still bleeding – were being stored in the back and that some human flesh was being served. In addition, officers found automatic weapons and mobile phones.
‘People who were never cleanly dressed and who looked a bit strange made their way in and out of the hotel, making me very suspicious of their activities. I am not surprised at the shocking revelation.’

A priest who had recently eaten at the restaurant reportedly told authorities that he had been presented with a bill of 700 Naira – around £2.20 – which is a large amount of money in a country where millions survive on less than 60p a day.
‘The attendant noticed my reaction and told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill scale that high,’ he told the BBC.
‘I did not know I had been served with human meat, and that it was that expensive.’
Police are said to have arrested 10 people in connection with the crimes.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/16/restaurant-shut-down-after-serving-human-flesh-5200730/

 

[Federberg]

Odd that BBC Swahili is reporting that. That's like BBC Russia reporting on the local goings on in London! In fact the distance is greater. But it's super gross!

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Odd that BBC Swahili is reporting that. That's like BBC Russia reporting on the local goings on in London! In fact the distance is greater. But it's super gross!

How do you know? :snicker

 

[Federberg]

Odd that BBC Swahili is reporting that. That's like BBC Russia reporting on the local goings on in London! In fact the distance is greater. But it's super gross!

How do you know? :snicker

Lol! I've been to Nigeria and South Africa. And also Russia for that matter. I'm well acquainted with the distances

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Odd that BBC Swahili is reporting that. That's like BBC Russia reporting on the local goings on in London! In fact the distance is greater. But it's super gross!

How do you know? :snicker

Lol! I've been to Nigeria and South Africa. And also Russia for that matter. I'm well acquainted with the distances

I was asking about the "gross" part . :snicker

 

[Federberg]

How do you know? :snicker

Lol! I've been to Nigeria and South Africa. And also Russia for that matter. I'm well acquainted with the distances

I was asking about the "gross" part . :snicker

Lol! My bad. I don't know... call me strange but cannibalism is a bit gross don't you think?

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Lol! I've been to Nigeria and South Africa. And also Russia for that matter. I'm well acquainted with the distances

I was asking about the "gross" part . :snicker

Lol! My bad. I don't know... call me strange but cannibalism is a bit gross don't you think?

I guess...yeah...maybe...probably. I am just keeping an open mind in case I end up in a situation where I have to, you know....:snicker

 

[Federberg]

I was asking about the "gross" part . :snicker

Lol! My bad. I don't know... call me strange but cannibalism is a bit gross don't you think?

I guess...yeah...maybe...probably. I am just keeping an open mind in case I end up in a situation where I have to, you know....:snicker

Lol! For your sake I hope you're never in that situation!

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

I guess it is news when man bites dog...:s

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/christian-beheads-jihadist-in-syria-revenge-killing-monitor/ar-BBkov3x?ocid=mailsignoutmd

 

[Kieran]

Folks, is there something sick in this story? Or am I missing something?

Georgia man can legally carry AR-15 rifle in Atlanta airport terminal: 'It should be no cause for concern for anybody'

:cover :cover :cover

 

[Kieran]

Wouldn't you love if somebody hunted the sleazy cowardly geezer who shot Cecil the Lion? Just for fun, like. Just for a photo op...

 

[DarthFed]

^ I'm glad this topic is getting insane amount of coverage in this day and age of social media. That dude's business and much of his life is going to go down the drain...Good!

 

[brokenshoelace]

I know many are raising the "thousands of human beings are killed every day and nobody bats an eye" argument with regards to Cecil the Lion but that's a false dilemma. You can be outraged about both, to varying extents. Nobody's claiming the lion's life is more valuable than humans getting slaughtered everywhere in the world, but that doesn't mean people should just not care about the issue because of something unrelated. The story makes my blood boil. What a piece of $hit. Killing a lion for no reason after illegally baiting him like a coward just to have a trophy to display so that he and his friends can have something to talk about in his basement.

 

[Kieran]

^^ Exactly. An argument also is, that loads of animals are slaughtered every day for food, which is true, but as you say, it's a "false dilemma..."

 

[brokenshoelace]

And right on cue (re: thousands dying every day) an 18 months old Palestinian baby was BURNED ALIVE by four Israelis.

What a crappy world we live in.

 

[shawnbm]

And right on cue (re: thousands dying every day) an 18 months old Palestinian baby was BURNED ALIVE by four Israelis.

What a crappy world we live in.

I have not seen this reported in the news yet, but imagine it may have something to do with all the bulldozing going on in the West Bank. I could be wrong, but what I do know is that Boko Haram just slit the throats of ten fisherman in a village on Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria. So, the killing goes on in various parts of the globe.

 

[shawnbm]

Oh, and this is all a tragedy and sickening. I feel for what happened to Cecil the lion, but the other atrocities make me even more ill.

 

[Kirijax]

The killing of Cecil was horrible and those involved should be punished no doubt. But it's kind of amusing how Americans and Europeans have suddenly latched on to this and worked themselves up into a frenzy over it. While Zimbabwe has asked for the US to extradite the dentist-hunter, some of the politicians over there weren't even aware that a lion named Cecil had been killed. They said they have more serious problems to worry about than some situation with an American killing a lion. Some have even called it a "first-world problem". :cover

'What lion?' Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus

 

[Kieran]

Some have even called it a "first-world problem". :cover

Be that as it may, it's still a "problem" and if only the first world cares about it, all the better. These creatures are endangered, and have a dignity according to their great species, and it's the human's job to preserve them, not humiliate, torture and then destroy them. If it takes the first world to make an issue of this - while also funding their preservation - then it's a good thing.

We can relativise too much on things. We don't always have to reduce everything to a comparison between this and whatever terrible things humans do to each other. We can care about both, while knowing the difference between Cecil the lion, and whatever atrocities they randomly perpetrate in the Middle East (to use just one arena of human horrors)...

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

This extradition thing is interesting though. I do not know if there is an agreement between Zimbabwe and the US but countries like US are pretty quick demanding extradition when someone they want is caught somewhere else. Will they be as willing to send away a citizen to be charged overseas?