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Curiosity dear fellows folows : AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE: PENIS SHRINKING SCARE CONTINUES Armed police still patrol the streets of Dakar, Africa after eight people died and 36 were injured in a wave of panic caused by claims that some men, mostly foreigners, have the power to shrink penises. The AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE expands on the frightening story that was first reported on the Internet in this space last week. One of those killed was burnt to death in the south of the country, while in the capital, near the central market, an incensed crowd seriously injured a Senegalese civil servant, accused of making a hair-dresser's penis shrink. Calm returned to Dakar as the interior ministry urged the Senegalese to be reasonable in the face of the phenomenon described by psychologists as "collective hysteria," reports the AFP. Members of the public have been urged not to take justice into their own hands; authorities have promised to bring those responsible before the courts. Over the past weeks, fear of penis-shrinking has spread to Senegal from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The wire reports: "In each instance, the scenario has been the same. After shaking the hand, or even merely brushing the hand of a stranger, men have claimed to have experienced a shudder followed by a tingling sensation and then he has felt 'his organ withdraw profoundly into his body.' "The victim then declares his penis has shrunk and shouts out to passersby who, armed with cudgels, bricks, and machetes pursue the 'sex thief.' In an interview published Saturday in the daily L'AURORE, Ahmadou Tall, head of the Dakar police, said it was necessary to reason with people and to dispel the psychosis, rather than to resort to savage repression. "All the penises that I have seen are in the right place and they are quite normal," Tall said, after inspecting more than a dozen alleged victims of the penis-shrinkers. --------------------------------------------------------------- these people belong to the specimen called Hommus Sapiens.... imagine if they were not. :-)) Happy weekend to all. -- +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+