Liposuction rules Shoaib out of Aussie tour.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/liposuction-rules-shoaib-out-of-tour-20091120-iqrk.html

The saga continues.

Yes, this has been discussed. No surprises really.

These days Shoaib doesn't make the side even when he is fit

TBH i really miss his bowling.

They should've sucked the fat out of his head.

he's become a joke - a pretty sad end

At least his genital warts will be trim, taut & terrific.

lardbucket wrote:Yes, this has been discussed. No surprises really.

About the liposuction or Red starting an duplicate thread?

Well, in fairness to Red, there is no duplicate thread. I found mention of Chucktar's weird antics in the Kallis morbid obesity thread and suggested the topic deserved its own thread.

I don't think this thread is a result of that suggestion but.

Is he selling it off to cosmetics companies for the cash?

I saw a story that peruvians were killing for human fat and selling it off.... or did I dream that one?

Peruvian 'fat killers' butchered humans over decades
LIMA
November 21, 2009 - 9:20AM

A Peruvian "brotherhood" accused of murdering at least 60 people and selling victims' fat to foreign cosmetics traders carried out its grisly work undetected for 30 years, Peruvian police said on Friday.

The gang used abandoned buildings in the Amazon jungle and high Andes to clandestinely butcher victims and "formed a network, or brotherhood that carried out criminal activities," police general Eusebio Felix said.

Peruvian authorities have taken three men and a woman into custody and are hunting two unnamed Italians suspected of buying human fat for as much as $US15,000 ($16,315)a litre - to be used in European cosmetics.

"Those detained have confessed that after assassinating their victims, they slit their throats, hung the torsos and limbs on 'S' shaped hooks," said Felix.

"Later, to extract the fat, they lit candles to heat the room."

The fat would seep out of the thorax of the decapitated bodies and "fell into receptacles for three days and was later decanted."

Jorge Sanz Quiroz, a prosecutor in the case, told AFP "two Italians were implicated. They have been identified but their names cannot be released until they have been captured.

"These people apparently bought the fat from the detainees to sell in European laboratories."

One of the Italians is said to have left for Europe.

So far police have found the remains of just one of their victims, but one of the suspects, 56-year-old Hilario Cudena, is said to have told police he committed "various" murders since he was 20 years old.

He is accused of being part of a gang which called themselves the "Pishtacos of Huallaga," a reference to an Andean bogyman said to kill and dismember victims in a region of central Peru.

The gang was uncovered earlier this month when police arrested one person in the possession of 17 litres of human fat, with an apparent value of $US255,000 ($277,355).

But at least one expert has doubts there is a large market in illicit human fat that the gang could have tapped.

Julio Castro, head of the Medical College of Peru, pointed out that plastic surgeons extract fat from their patients every day, but it is not sold.

The fat extracted by the "Pishtacos," he said, would have been riddled with impurities and rendered useless because of their artisanal methods.

AFP

Grim story...

Sounds like something out of a horror movie :| .

vilkrang wrote:Sounds like something out of a horror movie :| .

So does Figjam

Incredible story. When can I expect to see it - er - dissected on Media Watch?

Journalists Inca hoots.

Droll, very droll.

I hope this doesn't affect my lip gloss.

as long as you have it covered by that tub of mayo, it shouldn't really.

Hah! That's a good point!

... and don't use the Peruvian lip gloss.

My lips never get that dry.