r/Weird • u/stankmanly • 2d ago

Dozens lynched for 'stealing men's genitals by tapping them on shoulder'

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/dozens-lynched-stealing-mens-genitals-37624059
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u/HoopaDunka 2d ago

Come again?

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u/lynbod 2d ago

Well if you insi-..... wait, where the hell have my genitals gone?!!?!

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u/emirsolinno 1d ago edited 1d ago

To visualize the scene :

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u/Bocha_Boston 1d ago

That's the message I was expecting. Thanks for not disappointing me Reddit.

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u/SufferNSucceed 1d ago

“HOW CAN HE TAP!!?!”

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u/NeverEndingCoralMaze 1d ago

I guess they tapped out.

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u/Dolphin_Hornet 1d ago

Those darn genital thieves

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u/hecatemoonshadow 1d ago

The adult version of "Got your nose."

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u/aviva1234 2d ago

Highly unlikely

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u/Oaken_beard 1d ago

Well that’s what happens when you tie them in a knot or a bow and throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier.

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u/StratoVector 1d ago

No. They are not come again

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u/sour_cream24 1d ago

I can't, my genital is gone now

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u/taste1337 2d ago

Nah. Mayo this time.

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u/alkla1 19h ago

Not without my genitals

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u/ProgrammerRich6549 2d ago

Is this real??? Like seriously? What the actual fuck did I just read I wish I never clicked that link bro what the fuck

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u/VaalLivesMatter 1d ago

That's light sauce for Africa. They believe some wild shit

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u/palmerry 1d ago

The murder and sale of albino human body parts is a zinger

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u/BurninCoco 1d ago

ok but why are they magical then?

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u/BuzzAllWin 1d ago

Imagine the levels of white privilege they contain… harnessed correctly you could rule the world

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u/BurninCoco 1d ago

It is said that just a finger gives you HOA President like powers and Instant Manager Access for months

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u/Grakch 1d ago

Asking the reale questions

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u/CptTeebs 1d ago

"Why are you magical?"

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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 1d ago

Gods biggest oopsie!!

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u/LuciferOnTheRocks 1d ago

Sometimes I wonder what the heck is up with Africa, but then even Scotland had the highest rate of witch burnings in Europe. And that was just a few hundred years ago.

We still have people in the UK burning down 5G masts and believing in chemtrails. 

In short, it seems like the masses have to try very hard not to be morons.

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u/Luscious_rat 1d ago

Religion is what's wrong with Africa. Islam, Chritianism and Shamanism, they often mix.

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u/LuciferOnTheRocks 1d ago

Shamanism sounds kinda cool. But apparently it makes people think someone is out to steal their balls, so maybe not. 

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u/Luscious_rat 1d ago

Stealing balls is one of the tamest things, I fear. The most common crimes linked to shamanism are kidnappings and murders. As a west African, we often hear of people, mostly women and small children going missing. These criminals apparently do so on the advice of their shamans, they do some rituals, kill the person, retrieve some of their organs and give them to the shamans with money, a chicken, etc. All of this for what? Because they want to be rich. There's so much difficulty finding a stable job that a lot of people get fooled by some stories of quick money and they commit the worse. They were also raised heavily into religion so they believe that the world is first spiritual and if they can affect the spiritual world, no matter by being good or bad, they can have anything in the physical world. I hate religion for how it conditions people like this, it is the enemy of reason and practicality. People can be fooled by many things, for example a few decades ago western men were fooled to believe that they could be cured of their impotence by having goat testicles surgically implanted, and I think it's a similar mechanism as what religion does.

If people tend to believe that something that they can't understand fully is the absolute truth, even science, they become easy preys for people that want something from them by giving these fools the illusion that they can solve an issue so big and immutable as poverty or impotence: Do X and I'll grant you Y by the power of my great knowledge, which is arcane and absolute.

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 1d ago

the world won’t be safe until the last king is hanged with the entrails of the last priest.

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u/garrettbmusic 1d ago

ok calm down there Ghengis Kahn.

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u/BullpupPewPew 17h ago

You misspelled Imam.

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u/Wanderhoden 16h ago

Sir, this is a Wendys.

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u/Anagoth9 1d ago

I mean, it's a whole-ass continent with 1.5 billion people on it. There's bound to be quite a few wackos. 

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u/roastbeeftacohat 1d ago

Where in Africa?

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u/DontLookAtUsernames 1d ago

Yeah. Like the “cure“ for HIV they‘ve found in South Africa.

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u/Ubiquitous_Destiny97 2d ago

thanks for warning me, i refrain from clicking it so

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u/TheLazySamurai4 20h ago

Its semi paywall'd anyways

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u/emirsolinno 1d ago

calm down bro no one will steal your pp

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u/gera_moises 1d ago

That's exactly what a pp thief would say!

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u/ProgrammerRich6549 1d ago

I don't have one to steal 😎

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u/emirsolinno 1d ago edited 1d ago

You mean stolen?

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u/roastbeeftacohat 1d ago

Pritty common form of mass hysteria. In Europe witches would keep them in trees

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u/Wrong-Protection-188 1d ago

This comment shrunk my genitals. Sick em boys.

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u/highfiveselfoh 1d ago

So you did read it? Seems like you didn’t. Because it’s not real that people are snatching balls. It’s a rumor and idiots are acting on the rumor.

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore 1d ago

No shit, Sherlock. The “what the fuck” part is that people are being killed over it.

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u/KaleAggravating3795 2d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah what you read is real. The rumors were spreading on social media, welcome to Africa. A lot of people here hold superstitious beliefs, unfortunately sometimes that leads to erratic violent actions.

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u/joedenowhere 1d ago

I saw an article about this a few years ago. It said that many men who believed their genitals had been stolen would refuse to look down their pants to check. 

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u/genius23sarcasm 1d ago

HOW WOULD THEY PEE?

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u/Albrecht_Entrati 1d ago

By sitting down

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/The_Disapyrimid 1d ago

Two hours later and still provided zero verifiable examples. You do know that "lynching " the article speaks of isn't metaphysical, right?

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u/Dx_Suss 1d ago

The UK has yearly race riots, Glasgow mobs burned a building they believed was full of people, Romania keeps trying to murder its Roma populations, there have been half a dozen "suspicious hangings" at Southern US colleges etc - im not going to find all the articles for you Bozo

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u/BaconBitz109 1d ago

You could find like… one or two examples? Seems like the bare minimum

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u/NOT-Bolvar-Fordragon 1d ago

the UK is in a racial battle fueled by Moscow and Israel. Its well documented by now.

american lynching:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/black-people-being-found-hanging-180000701.html?guccounter=1

Romania; consistent racial abuse and fighting. https://romareact.org/the-ongoing-struggle-against-neo-nazism-and-racism-a-roma-perspective/

So that was just 2 of... maybe 15 verifiable links? 

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u/LiterallyABigfoot 1d ago

Any examples? Any at all?

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u/fraktalmau5 1d ago

Interesting. Have an example?

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u/jmartin21 1d ago

I mean it’s not based on social media specifically but lynching for superstitions and hate isn’t anything new to anywhere in the world

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u/LiterallyABigfoot 1d ago

Yeah but do you have any examples of that happening in Europe and the US based on social media?

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u/bigfoot_lives 1d ago

Ok pal, did you learn this on social media?

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u/j0caIu 1d ago

downvoted for being right 

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u/Thecool_1 1d ago

Downvoted for no source and a claim they pulled directly from the rectal passage

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u/LiterallyABigfoot 1d ago

Downvoted for blatant disinformation, is what you actually meant to write.

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u/FitPerformer5172 1d ago

Whenever this happens I usually log off ASAP. This is usually how echo chambers begin. Goodbye

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u/Senior_Sector4095 1d ago

Naw girl, it used to be 10" until that fool tapped my shoulder

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u/Radiant_Plantain_127 1d ago

What? Did everyone in the county tap your shoulder?

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u/ToiletWarlord 2d ago

Cutting open heads of bald men with a machette, because it was believed, they have gold inside is still my number 1.

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u/KaleAggravating3795 2d ago

Then there is killing of albinos and using their body parts for witchcraft.

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u/emirsolinno 1d ago

Did they find it though or just kept looking?

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u/ToiletWarlord 1d ago

no news about rich Mozambique citizens, so I guess it was just some kind of misunderstanding.

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u/Vampira309 2d ago edited 1d ago

good lord. How on earth can adults, in the 21st century believe this shit?!

And they're KILLING people because they believe in freaking fairy tales and wiener stealers??!!

Places never to visit even though I don't have a penis:  Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

Ps: what happens when the dudes realize their dicks are not actually gone? The alleged dick stealers have already been killed!

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u/miko1075 2d ago

By the way these are the same countries where it is illegal to be gay accept for mozambique and angola

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u/Vampira309 2d ago

welp, those dudes with no dicks should be able to obey the laws, anyway.

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u/Cielmerlion 1d ago

I mean, its not like being gay had been legal for very long in most of the world

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u/kumogate 2d ago

Some of these are places where people believe having sex with a virgin can cure AIDS. A poorly educated population with nothing to navigate life except folk legends and rumor is what this looks like.

Horrifying that this is what certain groups are trying to turn the USA into, too.

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u/TorrenceMightingale 1d ago

In the lower Congo Valley, the flesh of children was often considered a delicacy. At least that stopped from what I understand.

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u/CreamofTazz 1d ago

Yup and rather than educating on STI transmission and prevention, we instead just circumcise boys and men and then throw them back out into the world.

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u/kumogate 1d ago

Yeah, I still find it strange that Americans are really into circumcision when the rest of the Western world (except Israel) just doesn't really do that. It seems like that's changing (albeit very slowly) in American culture, however.

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u/CreamofTazz 1d ago

I've legit been told over and over again by multiple people that they just don't trust men to be able to keep it clean downstairs and so that's why men should be circumcised.

But if I were to say women can't be trusted to keep clean down there... Well let's just say I would have CPS at my door. It's really crazy how people just kinda ignore the ways in which we vilify men and their bodies. We far too often shrug and say "it's men doing it to men" but the reality is women also hold this opinion as well. Hell I've seen more female nurses advocate for it than I've seen any man do it.

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u/kumogate 1d ago

Yeah, the excuses Americans trot out for it are insane. All of them fail simply because the majority of men in the world are never circumsized and don't have problems keeping their junk clean. American culture is notoriously insular, however, so this change that is happening is much slower than it should be.

Male genital mutilation should be done away with unless absolutely medically necessary.

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u/CatnipGemini 1d ago

Thank you for saying that because it's so true & nobody ever wants to talk about it. Some women's attitude toward men is terrible, there's plenty of evidence for it as well as me growing up with it. It's not about attacking women just certain societal attitudes that need addressing.

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u/UpstairsAd194 2d ago

Leave a review on trip advisor.

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u/Nefarious_Nemesis 2d ago

"O out of 10. They're stealing peepees over yonder!"

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u/House_Of_Thoth 1d ago

I went to go on tip advisor but it got cut off

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u/pawnografik 2d ago

I’ve been to all of the others except Burundi and Angola. Didn’t hate most of them, somehow still have my penis.

Highlights: beers in DRC are surprisingly good and also Malawi has a really nice lake.

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u/betterthanyou47 2d ago

I think they need a better system for organ donations.

https://giphy.com/gifs/jRBjhebMuIZ0Suv72R

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u/Puzzleheaded_Heat502 1d ago

I’m imagining the wiener stealer looking like the child catcher in chitty chitty bang bang.

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u/ProgrammerRich6549 2d ago

Weren't ever on my list anyways

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u/KnowsIittle 1d ago

Must've been action B was able to restore it.

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u/CreamofTazz 1d ago

Religion. I personally believe if we want Democracy to survive the 21st century religion has to go.

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u/Vampira309 1d ago

oh yeah. Religion is the greatest evil of all.

Governments love it though - "Religion is the opium of the masses" as Marx said...

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u/Grakch 1d ago

because not everyone has the same culture or even experiences the world the same as you and education varies as well. not that incomprehensible to think, most people on this planet living with very little

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u/xxABagOWe3dXx 2d ago

We playing duck duck got your sack lol.

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u/Wanderhoden 16h ago

Dick dick go!

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u/Key-Moments 1d ago

The BBC Global Disinformation unit did an interesting article on this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8lw7n2ddo

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u/STFUnicorn_ 1d ago

Of course TikTok is helping spread this idiocy…

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u/ebrum2010 1d ago

Shouldn't it be the anti-disinformation unit?

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u/twisruptor 16h ago

BBC reporting about bbc

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u/CountCrapula88 1d ago

That's what it's like when people have very little education in the whole country.

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u/Key-Moments 1d ago

There was a nasty case recently in India about something similar. (August 2026)

Somebody had posted maliciously that this teenager's testicles were worth bank (£100,000k) and he was promptly killed in order to sell them on the black market.

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u/DorthVooder 1d ago

I read this multiple times and still don't get it

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u/roastbeeftacohat 1d ago

Its a common form of mass hysteria that witches are sealing willys. The shoulder tapping thing is this week's flavor

Nobody's dick is missing

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u/InactiveMedusa 2d ago

For what? Super powers, vitality, dick collection?

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u/Smrtihara 1d ago

Lemme guess, it’s just an excuse to murder people you don’t like?

Witch hunts always are thinly veiled excuses.

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u/STFUnicorn_ 1d ago

Is anyone at all surprised TikTok is helping fuel this absolute idiocy?

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u/Low_Employ8454 1d ago

Nope, these people were lynched because the people doing the Lynching wanted to and needed an “excuse”.

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u/GreyWolfTheDreamer 1d ago

And you thought that your uncle saying "Got yer nose!" was scary as a kid...

"Got yer penis!"

"Gimme back mah penis!"

"Let me check my bag. Is yours the 2 incher? That's all I've got in this bag? This looks like it fits you!"

"Um. Nevermind. I was clearly mistaken..." (starts to walk away)

"Oh wait up! I think I found a 2.5 incher. Maybe that one in yours? Let's ask your wife. Oh, she says you had a 1 incher. I'll give you the free upgrade..." (walking quickly to keep up)

"Leave mah alone man!" (breaks into a sprint, the two men run past a pair of old guys sitting)

"Damn. That man can really run considering he got no balls..."

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u/Similar_Two_542 1d ago

Imagine being a lawyer in Congo and having to work on these cases.

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u/SpaceboyLuna0 1d ago

I woke up this morning and my penis was missing again. This happens a lot. It's detachable.

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u/Any-Board-6631 1d ago

Religions is a hell of drug, every religions.

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u/noble_plebian 1d ago

This sorta behaviour gives Africa a bad reputation

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u/SovereignZ3r0 2d ago

That website is straight up cancer.

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u/repressibleoperon 1d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(disease)) maybe related to this?

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u/Wanderhoden 16h ago

“The word was borrowed from Malay and means the head of a turtle (or tortoise), referring to how it looks when they retract their heads into their shells.”

Me as a Malay: woohoo we are relevant again!!

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u/ThrustNeckpunch33 1d ago

"Dozens"

An actual BBC(0_0) article, said that 85 people had been killed in their investigation.

Any societies that revolve around sticking to very old cultural ideas and traditions, run the risk of nonsense like this.

In the west, we seem to work to get as far away from our old ideas and culture as fast as possible... now

There is a lot of cool stuff and beauty in cultures and traditions, but ignorantly adhering to ones that don't suit society anymore is a terrible idea.

White people get made fun of for having "no culture" all the time. The thing is, they do. It just has no set identity, because it is always shifting and morphing with the times instead of clinging to 500 year old concepts of women, gay people, minorities, disabled...

Is it perfect? Obviously not. But its a culture that is at least moving in a progressive direction.

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u/abdulj07 1d ago

Post fit for Weird and nottheonion

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u/Spockie 1d ago

This sounds similar to the shrinking penis disorder, “Koro”.

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u/Skullfuccer 1d ago

Mods! Mods! These Redditors stole my genitals! Help!

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u/StratoVector 1d ago

So, a question I'm walking away with is, how some of these people believe their genitals are entirely missing...because allegedly some of them were stolen completely. Can buddy not just....look down there. Or better yet, how did it go missing if it actually isn't there. There's no way the tooth fairy or Krampus or whoever got so confused and just took the wrong thing

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u/Jaggz691 1d ago

So they think these people are witches and warlocks?

Just by tapping someone on the shoulder you too can have a smaller dick!

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u/thisismybandname 1d ago

I could not be trusted with that kind of power

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u/Summary_Judgment 1d ago

I knew this was Africa.

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u/No-Blueberry-1823 1d ago

What interesting words we have today

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u/Stellar_Dan 1d ago

Weeeell I believe that’s about enough internet for the rest of the year … see you guys in 2027….

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u/cincodemike 1d ago

What a wild and confusing headline

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u/RowAndRuction 1d ago

This is why we vote to fun public education folks. This is what awaits us if we take it away.

You’re not inherently better than these people, you had a complex system of administrators, scientists, writers, and money given to you as a child for decades. Those years had an impact.

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u/OSRSRapture 1d ago

Truly amazing. It seems like humans are becoming dumber as time goes on. Who would have ever guessed that in 2026 there would be people believing that strangers are stealing their genitals by, checks notes.... tapping their shoulders..

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u/4rt4tt4ck 1d ago

Is that like when I'd make a funny face and my sister would try to hit me on the back so the face would stay that way?

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u/Matt_Schtick 22h ago

Gone?! Oh well, should make riding my bike more comfortable.

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u/Small_Personality 13h ago

I’m sorry WHAT did I just read??

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u/showtunescreamer 1d ago

Reminder that Africa is the second largest continent on the planet with over 80 different cultural structures. I’m tired of people just saying “Africa” as if it’s all accompanying to every country and culture, especially when bad reports come from there.

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u/AltruisticPeanutHead 1d ago

Agreed, but also this is happening across 8 countries it said so it actually makes sense here lol

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u/OrangeClyde 1d ago

Ignorant weirdos. It’s 2026, we’re too far along in time and civilization to still believe such foolishness

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u/mrselffdestruct 1d ago

So are we talking a “got your nose” situation or a “tapping him on the shoulder to then physically rip his penis off of his body” situation

Edit: ah, we have the classic “religious beliefs mixed with superstitions being higher on the totem pole than science and education” situation.

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u/itsgotelectr0lytes 1d ago

Africa as a continent really doesn't have much nice things going for it, and a whole lot of bad things.

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u/Genteunida 1d ago

That April Fool's date is only a coincidence or are these Africans Trolling?

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u/Additional_Squash999 1d ago

If you just give the genitals back you should be ok. I mean you already have a set.

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u/swingsetlife 1d ago

there is now a snake where my penis used to be.

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u/realgoodmind 1d ago

If you think about it like that then what are we really going to do about all of them

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u/suspicious_hyperlink 1d ago

Can someone post the article in Pidgen

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u/Different-Sorbet746 13h ago

Typical Africa 

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u/PandaFerg 10h ago

I believe this practice is known as a Willy Wonkoff

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u/Will2LiveFading 1d ago

This is what spiritual bullshit leads to. No critical thinking just voodoo and violence. (I'm aware this is not voodoo).

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u/possibly_on_meth 1d ago edited 1d ago

"Horrifying videos show how the violent killings take place: men claim their penis and/or testicles have vanished or shrank after coming into contact with a stranger before an angry mob demands the genitals are returned. Many don't survive but some do."

I think it's a bit exaggerated. They put "video of the killing" with a hyperlink that just linked to a news report of a British man being burned alive by gangs but not at all related to the penis thing.

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u/PrincessGump 14h ago

Did you tead the article? A witness stated ine man was beaten and burned alive for “stealing someone’s penis”.

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u/TheRealManuelBothans 2d ago

It's in the Daily Star so it's got to be true! /s

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u/miscnic 1d ago

Many don’t know this but, one has to have them first before being able to lose them. Proverbial or biologicaial. Or maybe divine like that virgin baby scandal-spun-scheme.