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[Mojoman]

Got this in the Offroad & Outdoor Ezine:
FIRST DEATHS FROM RHINO HORN
THAILAND - Bangkok Star - 18th August

A woman mourns over the body of her deceased husband after he had purchased apparently
purposely contaminated Rhino horn on the open market in Bangkok. The source of the
contamination is still to be verified but it is thought to be from a private game farm somewhere in
southern Africa.

Officials in Thailand are frantic to identify the source, as the powdered horn is sold in miniscule
amounts and they have no idea how much has already been distributed throughout Bangkok.
Local hospitals are on standby for an unprecedented influx of new cases.

Officials are unable get information as the rhino horn dealers in Bangkok are being uncooperative.
They neither want to be fingered as being the provider of the poisoned horn, not do
they want to reveal their illegal international sources. It is believed that private game farm owners
in southern Africa are colluding between themselves to distribute an effective poison that is
harmless to the animals but harmful, or even fatal as in this case, to those that ingest the
contaminated horn.

A game farm owner from the North West Province who obviously wishes to remain anonymous,
has admitted to using the poison on 4 of his animals. Three of them have shown no side-effects
whatsoever 2 months after the poison was injected into the horns. However the 4th rhino was
slaughtered and de-horned on a remote part of his farm in the last week of July. When asked to
comment on the death in Thailand from suspect poisoned rhino horn, he refused to be drawn into
the morals of the farmers joint action. He said that there would be many more cases in the near
future as he was personally aware of at least another 5 slaughters of contaminated rhinos in the
North West Province alone.

Authorities in South Africa are unable to comment on the "poison" collusion among the game
farm owners nor are they able to verify the source of the contaminated horn.

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[Caerus]

I hope this happens more - good for the Rhinos - Surely these people are educated enough to know that a Rhinos horn aint gonna give you a hard on or make your willy bigger - Makes me sick that this stuff still happens

[eggsovereasywithteandtoast]

As a matter of interest: how do they take this stuff?
Do they drink it, chew it, snort it, smoke it?

[Caerus]

eggsovereasywithteandtoast, on 04 September 2010 - 09:17 , said:

As a matter of interest: how do they take this stuff?
Do they drink it, chew it, snort it, smoke it?

Inject it -

[cervelo]

Well done to the farmers for being so creative. They should actually build an atomic bomb in one and blow those eastern rubbish up.

[Delgado]

Maybe this will reduce the demand and preserve the animal!! Well done!!

[GTRacing]

good...

[scotty]

This 1st surfaced about 2 weeks ago and was shown to be fake.

[Sarge]

Hi Gents,
I have it from a reliable sourse that the gents die from lack of blood in the brain. It all rushes down to his willy.
Regards
Sarge

[deanbean]

Hoax-slayer Report

[Delgado]

Pity!! We can always hope though!!

[Mojoman]

Well, there is a pity but maybe they get it right one of these days before its too late.

[b-unit]

This is the kind of thing that will make a difference. As long as there is sufficient demand these animals will be killed.

[SteveCT]

Crack, on 04 September 2010 - 09:48 , said:

Inject it -

they inject powdered rhino horn? you reckon? take some finger nail, grind it down and inject that.

pretty sure they ingest it somehow.