Qatar's cannibals fingered by victim

FOUR Asians who murdered another Asian and then ate his body were caught when one of their victim's finger was found in the stomach of one during treatment for acute food poisoning,

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[Pseudo_Croat]

How can someone get food poisoning from eating human flesh unless the one being eaten already had food poisoning? That's what I'd like to know.

- Pseudo_Croat

[ganzfeld]

Originally Posted by Pseudo_Croat

How can someone get food poisoning from eating human flesh unless the one being eaten already had food poisoning? That's what I'd like to know.

Presumably the same as any meat? ie insufficient preservation and/or cooking and unclean kitchen practices, particularly when you're not experienced at dealing with meat that hasn't been prepared for cooking.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

See, that's the problem with eating orientals - an hour later you're hungry again.

[Wolf333]

Originally Posted by Pseudo_Croat

How can someone get food poisoning from eating human flesh unless the one being eaten already had food poisoning? That's what I'd like to know.

- Pseudo_Croat

The same way you can get it from any ill prepared meat. Since they found a finger in the guys stomach, I would guess that their methods weren't exactly kosher.

[DaGuyWitBluGlasses]

Or the poisoning could be from the toxins and even vitamins accumulated in human fat.

Mammals store toxins in their fat:

Eating mammal fat is unhealthy.
Eating the fat of mammals that eat other mammal fat is even unhealthier, because the store the toxins that were in their prey's fat.
Eating the fat of mammals that eat other mammals and eat a whole bunch of fat-soluble preservatives, or additives, or density adjusting agent is even worse.

[ganzfeld]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

See, that's the problem with eating orientals - an hour later you're hungry again.

Just a tip for the next board you join: If you want to make a good first impression, don't start off with racist jokes about eating people. But welcome!

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by ganzfeld

Just a tip for the next board you join: If you want to make a good first impression, don't start off with racist jokes about eating people. But welcome!

Thanks for the concern, and I certainly will keep that in mind should I ever be tempted to do so. Since I have not done so, I do not understand what prompts the advice, though. My comment was neither racist, nor prejudiced, nor bigoted. It was insensitive about the gruesomeness of the situation - much humor is like that - but it was not even a matter of racial insensitivity.

[SatansHobbit]

A Turtle named Mack has a thick shell. That will serve you well here, mate. I was tempted to make a bad pun out of the stereotypical view of Chinese food not being filling, or "finger food" not being hygienic, too.

The only racism I can see is in the original article.

Four Asians who murdered another Asian and then..

Why not "Four men who murdered another man and then...?" Surely the author, by stating their ethnicity, is implying that they don't belong to the same part of the human race that he does.

[Joostik]

Never mind that indigenous Qataris are Asian too.

[ParaDiddle]

Mack beat me to the punchline as well. Yes, there's a fuzzy and thin line between humor that is racial and humor that is racist. I'm probably not the best one to try and describe where that line is located. I work in a firehouse, so macabre humor is something of a professional tool and I use it quite often.

Anyway, on the subject of racial bias, am I the only one who noticed something in the article that could use some clarification?

FOUR Asians who murdered another Asian and then ate his body. . .

The Qatari newspaper said the four men had to seek emergency hospital treatment. . .

The paper did not give the men's nationalities.

Right, Asian in this case is being used as a racial description whereas nationality could refer to any socio-cultural designation on the globe. It's just very poorly written.

- Para "Sum Myung Guy" Diddle