Title: Urban Legend
Mount Rainier - January 27, 2005 08:01 AM (GMT)
Sence i love these darn things i had to post one of my favorites. this one involving My Nations band name Ie The kidney thieves. basically one would get abducted and be taken drugged to this place. when you woke up you were in a tub full of ice with a pain in your back and there was a note on the tub with with a phone next to it that said DONT MOVE! you must call an ambulance if you want to live. when the medics got there you would find your self with out a kidney. and these " kidney thieves would sell this kidney on the black market. Crazy aint it?
Byzantian - January 27, 2005 09:14 AM (GMT)
The trade in human organs is huge in alot of countries across the world.
Srpska Kosovo - January 28, 2005 01:08 AM (GMT)
I recently viewed a documentary on this very issue. Moldova and India both have thriving black markets trading in organs. A kidney in India can be purchased for as little as a few hundred dollars, according to the documentary.
Mount Rainier - January 28, 2005 02:46 AM (GMT)
but you have to imagine how horrable it would be to wake up one day with out a kidney O.o ( shudders)
my home town has its own urban legends that arent as gruesome but just as wierd
Katja of Zahumlje - January 28, 2005 05:23 AM (GMT)
Well terrible as the market in organs is, most of the time people do know this is happening. The waking up in a tub full of ice thing didn't happen.
I have read in various reliable places that China is a big source of organs as well, often harvested from executed prisoners. Sometimes the prisoners are executed in such a way as to make 'harvesting' the organs easier.
but the trade in people generally is a big problem especially in the Balkans, the usual victims being women and girls sold for sexual purposes.
There have been efforts to break this terrible trade, but none have been very sucessful.
Until the PATRONS realize the risks to themselves, it won't change.
The worst thing is that about the only inter-ethnic co:operation is among the gangsters in this evil trade.
Mount Rainier - January 30, 2005 04:45 AM (GMT)
still the idea is just creepy thank goddess its not true in that perspective