11/23/2004

...meep!

This just in from the "Chop chop goes the penis!" dept.

Man Cuts Off Teens' Penises for Theft -Police

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai house painter cut off the penises of two teenagers with a knife after he found out they had stolen 50,000 baht ($1,250) of his savings from an ATM machine, police said on Saturday...

"There's nothing they deserved more for stealing the money I saved that could have helped me get a job abroad," a police spokesman quoted him as saying...

Manit [the house painter] threw the severed penises into a canal before his neighbors tipped police off about the incident.

Bonus points for those noticing that this happened in Bangkok. (Or that's where the story was filed from, at least.)