“Victim” Comes Clean: It Was a Vampire Attack

February 15, 2011

 

At first she told police that the bite marks on her body were from an assault by a stranger who attacked her as she was jogging. But her story was slowly drained of all credibility and she was forced to admit that the marks were from the bite of one of Satan's undead minions … a vampire.

Or, more accurately, a pretend vampire.

Authorities say the 15-year-old Florida girl is a fan of the vampire-based “Twilight” movies and books. She eventually admitted to sheriff's officials that she had engaged in “fantasy biting” with a 19-year-old man and she was worried that her mother would see the marks.

And so a tale of mugging, more plausible to mere mortals, had to be concocted.

No charges were filed against the would-be vampire, although it seems that authorities would be powerless to prevent malignant creatures of the night from exacting their own unique brand of revenge on the fang-less imposter.

We're just saying.

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Murder Campaign Driving Gay Men Out Of Iraq

October 09, 2009

Although it is not common knowledge to the average reader, Iraq is, and has been for a very long time, an extremely homophobic society.  Gay men who live there with their sexual orientation do so at great risk, and are in near constant fear of being tortured or murdered because of their sexual preference.

Historically, the idea of making or allowing their same-sex preference to be publicly known has typically been out of the question, and still is.  But in the past year or so, things have gotten much worse for outing gay men in Iraq, regardless of whether the disclosure was of their own doing or otherwise.  There has been a marked increase in media condemnation of gays, in which conservative Iraqis commonly refer to gay men as the third sex, and they are now being routinely condemned in mosques.  The growing problem, however, goes far beyond mere condemnation for what many homophobes there call unnatural sexual intercourse.  An unparalleled campaign of organized murder seems to have taken hold there, and is not showing any signs of diminishing according to a recent report put out by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Although murders of gay men have occurred in Iraq in the past, now they are being gunned down in the streets by a variety of militia, mercenaries, or other armed soldier types, and videos are being made of the murders which are then circulated widely throughout the country via mobile phones and other methods.  In the past, such murders did not include the making of videos, and people typically did not talk about them.  Now, the murderous campaign is intended to literally put the fear of death into gay men, and it has been very successful in that regard.

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