Penis Theft panic hits capital, Lynchings in Congo

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.
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[AlicornsPrayer]

What a way to promote Viagra eh?

Not to mention...Awful glad that my ex and I didn't live there when we'd divorced...He'd be telling the reporters that it doesn't take touching someone to do that...Just a very peeved off ex-spouse wishing the body part away.

[cnredd]

Congratulations to the Congo...

They've finally caught up to 17th century Salem...

[Mikeyy]

Thats funny. I don't remember being there.

[cnredd]

Originally Posted by Mikeyy

Thats funny. I don't remember being there.

Hoping to be part of a class-action suit?...

[Mikeyy]

Originally Posted by cnredd

Hoping to be part of a class-action suit?...

Where do I sign?

[saltwn]

OM freakin' G

What an excuse to come up with because you think you're 'inadequate'.

As time goes by I am more and more thankful I was born a girl.
How sad to go through life always having that 'drive' in the forefront of you iddy biddy widdle mind!


Demon chasing what's left of a penis:

[lackluster]

Well, you say folks in Congo are nuts?
I can say this, no ifs ands or buts
Now don't tell me I'm wrong
cause I once had a schlong
But I'm left now with only a putz...

[cnredd]

Originally Posted by saltwn

As time goes by I am more and more thankful I was born a girl.
How sad to go through life always having that 'drive' in the forefront of you iddy biddy widdle mind!

Better than when you have to go find the nearest wall or bush instead of taking a trip to the nearest "facility"?...

[cnredd]

Originally Posted by lackluster

Well, you say folks in Congo are nuts?
I can say this, no ifs ands or buts
Now don't tell me I'm wrong
cause I once had a schlong
But I'm left now with only a putz...

There once was a man on a forum
Through limericks? He would just tore'em
A poem 'bout dicks
Even thanked by two chicks!
What happened to a sense of decorum?