Peru gang accused of killing to sell human fat, dead people in your cosmetics?
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[quote=CBC News]Three members of a Peruvian gang have confessed to killing people and draining the fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, according to police officials.
Col. Jorge Mejia, the chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police, said at a news conference on Thursday that two of the suspects were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat and told police it was worth $16,000 a litre.
Medical experts, however, expressed skepticism that a major market exists for fat, saying that while human fat can be used in anti-wrinkle treatments, it is always extracted from the patient being treated.
Mejia said the fat was allegedly sold to intermediaries in Peru's capital, Lima, and police suspect it was then sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, but he could not confirm any sales.
Three suspects confessed to killing five people, but the gang may have been involved in dozens more, police said. This year alone, at least 60 people are listed as missing in Huanuco province, where the gang allegedly operated, but the province is also home to drug-trafficking leftist rebels, police said.
Doubts about black market for fat
Six members of the gang remain at large, including the band's alleged leader, Hilario Cudena, 56, who one of the suspects told police had been killing people for human fat for over three decades.
The remains of some of the victims were found at a rural home in Huanuco, according to police video.
Medical experts were doubtful the trade of human fat would be lucrative.
Dr. Neil Sadick, a professor of dermatology at Cornell Weill Medical College in New York, said using a product with someone else's fat carries the risk of an immunological reaction, which is why people who do use products with human fat get the fat from their own body.
Dr. Adam Katz, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia medical school, said he was baffled that there would be a black market at all for fat.
"It doesn't make any sense at all, because in most countries we can get fat so readily and in such amounts from people who are willing and ready to donate that I don't see why there would ever be a black market for fat, of all tissues," he said.[/quote]
Source: [url]http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/20/peru-fat-gang-cosmetic.html[/url]
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It's Craaaaazy.
Maybe they were selling it to PETA.
Waste not, want not.
That was sarcasm whoever rated me dumb.
Imagine the money they would make in America...
oh yes i did :v:
Can't Peruvians just cut all those gobbles of fat off themselves to sell?
Reminds me of Fight Club.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;18483571]Reminds me of Fight Club.[/QUOTE]
That was the first comment on CBC as well.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;18483571]Reminds me of Fight Club.[/QUOTE]
jeez about time someone brought this up
fuck i thought everyone would be like "OMG FITE KLUB WAT"
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Made me laugh.
Why didn't they just start one a Liposuction clinic? They would both gain money from their patients and from the fat they sell...
[QUOTE]told police it was worth $16,000 a litre.[/QUOTE]
Fat american tourist has 50% body fat and weighs 130kg. Fat has a density of .9kg/L
130kg = 65kg of fat.
65/0.9 = 72.2L.
72.2*$16,000 = $1,155,555.56
One fat guy is worth over a million dollars.
Damn.
No dead people in my cosmetics since I don't use any.
[QUOTE=Glitch360;18483530]Imagine the money they would make in America...
oh yes i did :v:[/QUOTE]
Thats dark, is it not?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;18483850]Why didn't they just start one a Liposuction clinic? They would both gain money from their patients and from the fat they sell...[/QUOTE]
You're forgetting that you need a medical license and a ton of money to do that. Maybe they were saving up for an education?
Should have gone to America would have only needed to kill one person
[QUOTE=Devodiere;18483917]Fat american tourist has 50% body fat and weighs 130kg. Fat has a density of .9kg/L
130kg = 65kg of fat.
65/0.9 = 72.2L.
72.2*$16,000 = $1,155,555.56
One fat guy is worth over a million dollars.[/QUOTE]
brb selling fat
[QUOTE=Devodiere;18483917]Fat american tourist has 50% body fat and weighs 130kg. Fat has a density of .9kg/L
130kg = 65kg of fat.
65/0.9 = 72.2L.
72.2*$16,000 = $1,155,555.56
One fat guy is worth over a million dollars.[/QUOTE]
Excuse me while i go and get a scalpel and a vacuum, i'be got some back street lipo to perform.
That's pretty rediculous, it's not like developed nations have a shortage of fat.
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i haven't seen that gif in ages
[QUOTE=Glitch360;18483530]Imagine the money they would make in America...
oh yes i did :v:[/QUOTE]
This is in America
I can't be bothered to calculate the total value of fat for the entire USA but I imagine it's somewhere in the trillions.
[QUOTE=Wallettheifv3;18491356]This is in America[/QUOTE]
.....Not really.
That's just...fucked up
Wow, Facepunch is a fucking goldmine.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;18494082].....Not really.[/QUOTE]
What continent is Peru on?
shit is fucked up in peru, im glad i dont use make-up, but seems to be a good business
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;18494020]I can't be bothered to calculate the total value of fat for the entire USA but I imagine it's somewhere in the trillions.[/QUOTE]
If on average one human is worth 1.5 million, and there are approximately 300 million people in the USA then the value of of the USA for fat(if my calculations are correct) is:
$450,000,000,000,000
There once was a man from Peru...
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