Police in Peru say that they’ve caught a group that was allegedly killing people and harvesting their fat to sell to Europeans who wanted it for cosmetics.
The Independent points out that human fat is readily available from liposuction, should anyone want it, and that it doesn’t really do anything special for your skin. Police however, maintain that they’ve busted just one of several “international criminal network[s] trafficking human fat”.
“We have broken up a criminal organisation dedicated to trafficking bodily fluids and human fat,” said local police commander Angel Toledo, on Thursday. The large containers of illicit fat were latter decanted into bottles for export, he added.
“Without a doubt [the gang] have committed various crimes like kidnapping and conspiring to commit criminal acts. [They] have spoken about how they committed crimes with the purpose of extracting their fat in rudimentary laboratories to later sell for the price of $15,000 (£9,000) per litre.”
Whether or not they were actually able to sell said fat to mysterious evil Europeans has not been established. It does seem however, that they were actually harvesting it.
Regardless of their commercial success, the gang seems, at the very least, to have perfected the art of fat-extraction. Two of Col Meija’s suspects, Serapio Marcos Veramendi and Enedina Estela were arrested at a bus stop in Huanuco province carrying soft-drink bottles filled with an amber liquidised substance that lab tests later showed was liquidised human fat.
The duo claim to have been en route to Lima, roughly 300 miles south, where the contents of the bottles were to be sold to intermediaries. A further six of their alleged accomplices, including two members of the Italian mafia, and the organisation’s alleged leader, Hilario Cudena, 56, remain at large.
Peruvian gang ‘killed peasant farmers for their fat’ [Independent]
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Teehee — they “remain at large”.
It puts the lotion in the basket.
@thefranchise2: Was she a big fat person?
@thefranchise2: I’d f*** me.
@thefranchise2:
Yep, because when I’m harvesting fat, Peruvian peasant farmers immediately come to mind as a high-yield source…
@Ihatephonecompanies: Idiots. The fat people are in southern America, not South America!
@diasdiem: Exactly since when are peasants fat? They’re near starving.
Fatness seems more like a lazy middle class, middle aged office worker problem.
@joshuadavis: and when I’m harvesting people who don’t have a grasp of sarcasm, I know who will be on the top of my list…
Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar. Lord knows what they charged. It was beautiful; we were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.
@G.O.B.: Come on!: Seriously, saw the headline and this was the first thing that popped into my mind. Didn’t even get to see the picture on my phone before that came to mind.
Oh Lawd… What are these other “bodily fluids” they traffic? I hope it’s just blood…
I wonder if they were staking out the local WalMart because that is where I would go if I was looking for fatties.
Nope. Not real. Find me a place that would pay $15,000 for a liter of human fat – who???
@mamalicious:
No kidding. This seems like a great source of income.
Eat McDonalds constantly, get lipo once a year, become rich.
Wouldn’t it be more financially viable to:
- Confine them in an all you can eat paradise
– When they’re ripe, knock em out with gas
– suck the fat out of them
– repeat.
I mean, if you kidnap ‘em and kill ‘em, eventually, you’ll run out of resources (assuming you’re killing ‘em faster than they can reproduce).
@HIcycles: i believe that you’ve vastly underestimated the human reproduction rate.
Hell, if they bring me a fifth of good Vodka and some sharp scalpels, they can have all of my fat.
Cash4Fat. Receive patented envelop, stuff with fat, mail, profit.
1) Kill people for their fat
2) ?????????
3) Profit!
Does this mean that someone will offer me a free liposuction simply to be able to sell the fat they remove?
@james: Honey, you find em, please let me know! I’ll even let you sell my fat to em, lol
Human fat for cosmetics is readily available in large quantities. Ask any plastic surgeon. There’s no evidence that these Peruvians ever sold any human fat. They’re just batshit insane.
A certain German dictator required it for his skin rejuvenation treatments…
I saw the headline on the BBC webpage and didn’t click. Now I see it was about exactly what I thought it would be about. Glad I’ve already eaten.
I’m thinking I’d be glad to sell someone a litre of my fat for $15,000. I’m sure it would more than pay for the lipo required to get it.
I can turn my fat into soap?
What a clean way to lose weight!
looking forward to waking up in a bathtub in tijuana mexico after being drugged then liposuctioned
Ewww
The first rule of Fat Club is you don’t talk about Fat Club!
Truthiness Meter not moving much on this one. Chucacabra approves.
I am Jack’s Utter Lack of Suprise
This whole story really is pegging my B.S.-ometer.
Whoa, I would really be worth my weight in gold in Peru!
This is a cover up. If you know the history of Peru’s police , you’ll know that the people the gang “killed” were most likely killed by the police. The fact that they are insinuating that these “gangsters” are mythical creatures from Peruvian history makes it even more suspicious.
I make my own fat at home.
Wait. That sounds reasonable.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait….
I can sell my fat??
ew
@diasdiem: Excellent.
@diasdiem: Me alegro de que Google Translate existe, de lo contrario no podrÃa decir que mis caballos se están comiendo el guacamole.
@diasdiem: Hooooooooh yeah…. Although, I go to fairs primarily for the corn cobs.
@gStein_wondering if this will work: Just make sure not to talk about it.
@gStein_wondering if this will work: or write a book about it, perhaps?
@pecan 3.14159265:
The disappearance of many fat Americans would be noticed by changes in Earth’s gravitational field.
@courtarro: It’s even better if you have two gullible clone sons to get more permanent replacements.
@TechnoDestructo: Actually, poor people are overwhelmingly fat because of the low-quality, high-carb diet they consume.
@humphrmi: Really…it seems like that’s something you can easily make yourself for free.