WTF Stories of the Week

[blueerica]

Wow!

However, it does sound like fun.

[SacTown Chronic]

Do they use the frozen grandpa to keep the beer cold?

[RStar]

Hey, fun for the whole family!

Sunday includes "family fun" events and a Rocky Mountain oyster-eating contest at 3 p.m.

Just don't tell the kids:

Rocky Mountains oysters - also known as prairie oysters, Montana tendergroins, cowboy caviar, swinging beef, and calf fires - are true Western delicacies.

What are Rocky Mountain oysters? They are that part of the bull that is removed in his youth so that he may thereby be more tractable, grow meatier, and behave less masculine. When the calves are branded, the testicles are cut off and thrown in a bucket of water. They are then peeled, washed, rolled in flour and pepper, and fried in a pan. They are considered to be quite a delicacy. Like other organ meats, testicles may be cooked in a variety of ways – deep-fried whole, cut into broad, thin slices, or marinated. At roundups in the old West, cowboys and ranch hands tossed the meat on a hot iron stove.

Quote from here

[JWBear]

<shudder>

[Mousey Girl]

I used to hide in my room during the castration day. I also learned real fast, not to open any containers in the barn refrigerator.

[CoasterMatt]

S. Korean Child Starves As Parents Raise Virtual Daughter...

A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.

The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.

He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality.

The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby.

An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition.

The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.

The game enables players to interact with Anima and as they do so, help her to recover her lost memory and develop emotions.

[RStar]

Darwin awards, anyone?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

It's official - I can't read about neglected, abused, and dying babies anymore.

It's just too sad for me to bear.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

It's official - I can't read about neglected, abused, and dying babies anymore.

It's just too sad for me to bear.

Things like that are bad to hear, but ten-fold worse when you have one of your own, as you have no doubt found. It's so completely unimaginable! Welcome to the wonderful world of maternity!

While I was young, my mom had to walk out of The Excorsist because it was too frightening for her to see an inocent young girl doing those things.

[Betty]

I used to make fun (good natured fun) of my Mom for crying at all sorts of things. A phone commercial stands out in my mind.

Now I'm just like that. There's an OnStar radio ad that has a daughter in a crash and they call her mother and sheesh, even typing it out here starts to choke me up a bit. It's ridiculous sometimes I tells ya.