Weird News

China admits to using executed prisoners’ organs in transplants

On Thursday, Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu spoke at a conference of surgeons in the southern city of Guangzhou in Beijing, China, and admitted that many of country’s human organs used in transplants are those of executed prisoners. “The current organ donation shortfall can’t meet demand,” Huang explained. Though China doesn’t disclose the number of people executed each year, Amnesty International reports that “at least 1,770 people were put to death in 2005.” However, those in need for a fresh organ may have a harder time in months to come with China’s announcement of “tighter oversight” of death-penalty cases, which legal experts say could reduce death sentences by a third.

Man packs woman’s body in his luggage

In East London, a 24-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after police were tipped-off that the man may be carrying questionable materials in his luggage at a bust rank in Eastern Cape town. After questioning, police found a human finger in the man’s pocket and were able to retrieve his luggage off the bus, where an old woman’s head and her two arms were found.

Groundskeeper urinates on the dead

In Brooklyn, N.Y., Itomor Khaimov was stunned when he saw a man urinating on his grandmother’s grave Nov. 1. The man urinating was groundskeeper James Scott, 80, who told Khaimov that he was “an old man” and “couldn’t hold it.” When Khaimov demanded Scott to stop, Scott allegedly hit him and his dog with a rake. Scott was later arrested and charged with assault. Scott, on the other hand, denies having ever hit Khaimov and instead insists that he was the one attacked and furthermore, denies having urinated at all. “I would never disrespect my bloodline,” Scott, who claims that he is part Jewish, said. “I have respect for my race and all races.”

Drunken man lights himself on fire

In Durban, South Africa, a man was burnt to death when he set himself on fire after a drunken dispute with his wife on Saturday. Police say that the 30-year-old man had gotten involved in an argument with his wife after arriving home late Friday night. After throwing his wife out of the “outhouse,” he then poured paraffin over the outhouse and himself and then proceeded to light himself on fire. Paramedics declared the man dead upon arrival.