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Website Sells Pubic Lice
A British website called crabrevenge.com will help you prove that there is literally nothing you can't find online by selling you pubic lice. A disclaimer on the site says the creators "do not endorse giving people lice," and the lice are for "novelty purposes only." The company also boasts about a facility "where we do all of our parasite husbandry and carefully considered selective breeding." Three different packages are available: "Green package - One colony that can lay as many as 30 eggs for about $20. Blue package - Three colonies to share with your friends or freeze a batch or two for about $35. Red package - A vial of 'shampoo-resistant F-strain crabs' which can take up to two weeks to kill for about $52."
Everyone i know shaves so I don't see how effective this would be.
They are breeding resistant strains of lice. Does this count as parasite warfare?
huh ? is it even legal ? leave aside ethical ?
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Sorry, I'm new here, but is this story considered "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"?
and, in Soviet Russia, do pubic lice sell websites?
That's just wrong on so many levels. I can see kids buying these and then using them to pick on other school kids they don't like. Such as putting them in some kid's underwear when he/she is showering after the gym class.
This type of item used as a gag gift could have serious consequences for the recipient. If it's a student who is the recipient, then schools kick them out until they're free and clear. Parents may miss work to be home with student. Lice spread easily.
There is absolutely nothing good from this. /facepalm
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
You too can have your own strain of the HIV virus! Play jokes on your friends!
Uhoh, whoes got AIDS today? Everyone!
A lifetime of hilarity!
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
For the longest time I thought Monty Python was a parody.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I'll stick to the old way of getting crabs.
Hookers.
You just don't get it here!
Would giving people lice like this perhaps fall under the "bioterrorism" category? Just a thought...
What's next, needles full of AIDS-infected blood?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Do they come with instructions on the best way to infect someone? I'm in but I would like some instructions, how do I give them to say some jerk who cuts me off in traffic? Or some douche talking on his cell phone in the movie theater?
Do you give volume discounts and how do I get them in Rush Limbaugh's short?
Do you just sprinkle them on the toilet seat?
Can you buy tapeworms online to help us (or that fat loved one) lose weight? What about fleas? What fun!
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Why is this tagged technology??? Because of the "resistant" strain?
Some were yelling one thing, some another. Most of them had no idea what was going on or why they were there. Acts19:32
in Soviet Russia, do pubic lice sell websites?
They tried that, but found that the market just wasn't very profitable. Then they moved on to selling bulk emailing services, and found that it made a lot more money.
The grammar on the website is awful, complete with "were" instead of "where," breaking apart words that shouldn't be broken apart...
Can you anonymously drop-ship this product to, say, an ex-wife or unfriendly co-worker? I'd like to buy about 10 batches of the "Red", if so.
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It's not like there aren't much bigger and popular Web sites peddling much more harmful and destructive products.
Nonaggression works!
Agreed: It's a lousy story.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
damn parasites!
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
...by Red Lobster.
SOLD - in Europe only Danish teenagers shave!
"Thank you SO much you saved my marridge! My wife broke it off with her new lover because she thought he gave her crabs, wish I had found this site sooner!"
Ryan - Hamilton
Wow...just.... wow..
Fortunately lice are not human, so it is legal to inflict cruel and unusual punishment upon them. I very much doubt PETA will throw a fit over it either. That said, any idea on how to get them onto Palin?
There's gotta be a law against it, right?
We are all God's parents.
Willfully spreading a contagious illness (which this qualifies as) should be illegal.
I would say that creating ANY resistant, contagious disease should be considered a crime against humanity in general and should be rewarded with a swift death.
Contagious disease is a GREAT way to inflict misery on a lot of unintended and innocent victims.
Honestly, I can think of no worse or more dangerous crime.
--PM
"Make that bitch itch," the website says. "We sell you crabs to give your ex-girlfriend or whoever has pissed you off enough to make you seek revenge on them. If you want a method of revenge that doesn't involve permanent damage or risk of personal injury or jail time, you have come to the right place."
So when/if I do incur jail time, what kind of countersuit could I claim??
Since when does being a Socialist mean 'someone who has a different opinion than me'?
Just like those kitten-in-a-bottle sites. Did anyone really think this was for real?
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
You may not find this interesting, but your ex-girlfriend sure does.
Everyone passes on contagions every day, it just can't be helped. The sterile, antiseptic Star Trek world you envision in your mind just doesn't exist.
Shave on one side. Douse the other side with lighter fluid. Light the fluid and stab the crabs with a tooth pick when they run to the other side.
are these gnu pubic lice? and whose itch is getting scratched? .~.
I thought that the RIAA held the international patent on blood-sucking parasites.
What are yo going to do, include a note that says "Please drop the contents on yourself, because I don't have a FUCKING CLUE or any COMMON SENSE on how this works!"
Seriously, are you that clueless about how to use this? Are you that much of a mongoloid moron that you think this works the same way computer viruses and trojans work? You know what, I bet you're stupid enough to think that shipping a gun and some bullets to someone is all that's needed to bump them off.
Honestly, I can think of no worse or more dangerous crime.
Bend over... Another bailout is coming (got you! heh heh)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I could use the extra cash ..
This story is letting me know that yes, people can be and are indeed that passive-aggressive and disgusting.
To prevent this day from getting worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD TH
That goes for women AND men.
I'm tellin' ya, this country it going to hell in a handbasket. Buying crabs? Sheesh. In my day we got our crabs for free at a Grateful Dead show.
Now, get off my lawn.
This ain't rocket surgery.
PhRMA says pubic lice theft exceeded $51B in 2009.
Please tag every one of these dumbed-down stories "newsfordummies".
Yes, it is legal. It says so right on the site's FAQ page.
Are you adequate?
Do it, Peter. Drink my diabetic blood.
*drinks vial of blood*
Oooh...that's nasty. You're nasty.
Lice are not very good at surviving without food (= blood). Half of them have died within 24 hours. A bedbug would be much better, because they can go for months without food and they are very difficult to get rid off, once you get them in your house.
As a man in my early forties (married and faithful to one woman since 1999), I have to say this thread is an eye opener. I never even considered that there was a fad of almost-baldness a few years ago, but female bush is making a comeback.
I guess everything DID change after 9/11!
I wonder how many successful businessmen bed younger women, thinking something like "well, I don't look or act like I'm in my fifties", without knowing (without even knowing to know) that their junk adornment is as fashionable as a Leo Sayer perm.
Thank you fellow Slashdotters!
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
To be clear, I'm not a criminal lawyer. Crime is far, far away from my specialism. I am also not your lawyer. This is not a researched opinion. Cheers.
This would absolutely (in my opinion) be a criminal offence in the jurisdiction.
Common assault - includes any non-consensual contact or the causing of non-consensual contact through another object. This could easily be analogised to the cases involving leaving a trap or poking with a stick.
Much more serious:
Sexual assault - SOA 2003 s(3) - AFAIK this includes touching through another object, so the offense would be available
Infliction of GBH with intent - GBH requires common assault (see above) and the rupturing of membranes, which lice do when they suck blood (this potentially hold a sentence of lifetime imprisonment, and is an extraordinarily serious offence in the UK)
The Crown Prosecution Service generally charges less than the most serious crime chargeable, but it is quite feasible to imagine an assault or sexual assault charge being made if this were used. Also, the site owners are doubtless on the hook for all sorts of conspiracy and assistance offences, but I know little to nothing about them. Also, this may well come under the remit of Operation Sapphire (the London police operation on rape and sexual offences. I know some of the outstanding officers involved, they're like dogs with a bone once they get a suspect in their sights.) or could be viewed as domestic violence, which elevates sentencing in the courts (and opens up the possibility of elevation to Crown Court sentencing).
All sorts of wonderful civil options even if the CPS didn't prosecute, with trespass against the person and negligence high on the list.
Ya just couldn't resist it, couldja?
So is the prohibition on divorce, pre-martial sex and birth control...
Well, that sure explains why the Crusades were all the rage back when Popes ruled the world...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
That doesn't sound like a bright plan. Girls talk. About embarrassing yucky stuff. Do this and the probability of getting it on with her hot friend drops to zero. :(
(Admittedly, that may not be much of a drop, in which case the revenge may well be worth it... the math is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Willfully spreading a contagious illness (which this qualifies as) should be illegal.
I would say that creating ANY resistant, contagious disease should be considered a crime against humanity in general and should be rewarded with a swift death.
Contagious disease is a GREAT way to inflict misery on a lot of unintended and innocent victims.
Honestly, I can think of no worse or more dangerous crime.
--PM
Sex is a sin; I'm just doing God's work.
I've heard chicken flied lice tastes good
It's fried rice you plick!
And it's not The Craw, it's The Craw!
Bow-ties are cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomological_warfare#Legal_status
The Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BWC) of 1972 does not specifically mention insect vectors in its text.[26]
The language of the treaty, however, does cover vectors.[26]
Article I bans, "Weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict."[27][26]
It would appear, due to the text of the BWC, that insect vectors as an aspect of entomological warfare are covered and outlawed by the Convention.[28]
The issue is less clear when warfare with uninfected insects against crops is considered.[26]
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It's a website that give crabs to ex-girlfriends !#!@!
Honestly, I can think of no worse or more dangerous crime.
You lack imagination!
More seriously, if creating resistant diseases were illegal then you'd shut down basically all genetic research on them. It's fairly standard to give bacteria antibiotic resistance so you can select for the ones that took up the genetic modifications.
Beyond that, your argument relies solely on motivation rather than effect. People stopping antibiotics prematurely are a lot more dangerous than someone intentionally creating shampoo-resistant lice. Promiscuous, unprotected sex breeds horrendous diseases (like the leading preventable cause of blindness). Lice won't kill you outside of some contrived scenario. But if motivations are what's important, then why stop cattle farmers from using vancomycin?
IOW, misguided actions based on good (or neutral) intentions are far more dangerous than pranksters. The world would be hellish if we cared more about what people think rather than what they do. Unfortunately, there seems to be an ever-present trend to do so.
I'm new to your suggestion or meme, what does it mean? Who are Lords of Acid? Some of us are busy making a living, and can't be bothered to search for information that is Not Safe For Work.
Right, this story shouldn't be on /. anyway. Slashdotters getting pubic lice? Not a chance.
This is not the sig you're looking for.
. . . as a pubic service?
(I needed to burn off some karma.)
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
Woman jailed for giving lover HIV
Search "reckless infection", that's not the only case. I'm not sure if it only applies to HIV though.
He was itching to say it.
Lice != disease.
Lice == parasites
Holy shit! You mean, that wasn't a "to do" list?
Not in that order.
"Honestly, I can think of no worse or more dangerous crime."
A police officer manipulating evidence for pecuniary gain while his target spends years in jail, his finances, family, and anus in tatters?
No.30 on your list?
The Texas judge who sent hundreds of youth to a private jail, of which he had financial interest in. Those convictions being over turned long after his ruse was tumbled? No.99? Perhaps not even in your top 100?
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Your jokes bug me.
Online Starcraft RPG? At
Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
Agreed: It's a lousy story.
Ya just couldn't resist it, couldja?
He was itching to say it.
I wonder how long people here were scratching their head for a response before one said "I guess I'll bite."
Entomology students often have to make insect collections. Pubic lice are a tough thing to catch with a net in the park you know......
I remember hearing about a guy allowing himself to be infected with hookworms to cure an allergic reaction.
He tried to market his, ah, passengers. Modern Western health law won't permit that, of course, so he does it rather illicitly... I think.
"We are Microsoft. You shall be assimilated. Competition is futile."
Are slashdotters such noobs that they can't spot a parody? Seriously? 1999 called and wants to sell you a bonsai cat. Really.
> Slashdotters getting pubic lice? Not a chance.
Speak for yourself, bitch, and be thankful. Back around 1997, there was a nasty round of public lice going around South Florida for almost a year. Horrid stuff. Totally resistant to permethrin. I spent a month shaving my dick, ass, and balls more or less daily (I can assure you, any possible eroticism was gone by accidental nick #3), washing my bed sheets daily, and went through 4 weekly rounds of lice gel. Do you know what finally got rid of it once and for all? Frontline. That's right, fipronil (the active insecticide in Frontline). Totally harmless to mammals, utterly deadly to lice. And, unfortunately, aquatic wildlife, which is the reason why they can't legally sell it as a lice treatment in America -- fipronil keeps on killing for a long, long time after it gets washed down the drain, and there are quite a few federal regulations prohibiting it from being used in ways that would allow lots of it to get into lakes and rivers. Ergo, it's unlikely to be approved for use in situations where it gets applied, then washed down the drain 10 minutes later.
It's a shame. For killing pubic lice, there's nothing safer (to humans) or more effective (at killing the lice, and making sure they "stay dead"). Laugh at me now, but if you ever get crabs, remember this: fipronil works when nothing else does.
He's obviously referring to the generation and sale of these for purposes other than research. You should read his post more carefully, it's obvious that research into finding a cure for disease (which generally requires having some of the disease) does not apply to the proposed restrictions.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
Details from crabrevenge.com DNS:
Stephen Cunningham ...I mean. If he thinks 'revenge' is fair game he'd have no reason to complain. Right...?
24 Strangford Road
Ardglass, BT30 7SG
United Kingdom
Phone: +44.2844841268
the result of whois crabrevenge.com reveals:
Registrant Info: (FAST-13628818)
Stephen Cunningham
24 strangford road
Ardglass, bt30 7sg
United Kingdom
Phone: +44.2844841268
Fax..:
Email: weefunker@yahoo.co.uk
Last modified: 2009-01-25 00:43:31 GMT
Administrative Info: (FAST-13628818)
Stephen Cunningham
24 strangford road
Ardglass, bt30 7sg
United Kingdom
Phone: +44.2844841268
Fax..:
Email: weefunker@yahoo.co.uk
Last modified: 2009-01-25 00:43:31 GMT
I read it close enough. The same technique is used in amateur genetic engineering. People gardening or farming do the same, on a less sophisticated level. Homebrewers use yeast and aspergillus, both of which can cause disease. If you make an exception for research, would you also make one for hobbies? How about commercial agriculture (e.g. Roundup)? Yogurt making (probiotics)? Pet-raising (zoonotic infections)? All of these activities are breeding more resistant microbes, otherwise they wouldn't be possible. You'd have too many other microbes interfering to achieve the desired effect, so you need to breed resistance in the microbes you want. (IOW, that's exactly the same rationale behind antibiotic resistance in research, but it obviously has far more applications.)
If you want to ban something, the creation and use of biological weapons would be your target. But, IMHO, the loss of liberty would be too great for something so minor. I, for one, like to live in a world where we're free to toss a bug on somebody.
Will they be released eventually under the General Pubic License?
How does a guy manage to shave without making his penis and scrotum into something resembling freshly ground pork? Sure, safely shaving the pubes around them seems possible, but no way would I use a razor on my bumpy, wrinkly, hairy scrotum or my thin-skinned, veiny, hairy penis. And I expect a depilatory would burn the sensitive skin.
To anyone who has read this far, sorry about the lack of a TMI warning...
- T
"Disease" ?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
They break a number of laws, tracts and regulation about invasive species. At least if they export these critters, they also break many national laws regarding willfully spreading veneral diseases (for some odd reason considered more serious than willfully spreading other diseases). I suspect GB has something similar (I'm not into veneral diseases, so I'm not sure ;), at least most other European states has laws against willfully spreading veneral diseases and I know pubic lice is on "the list" at least in all Scandinavian countries.
These International "Laws" come to my mind:
Convention on Biological Diversity
European Strategy on Invasive Alien Species (Part of the Bern Convention)
EU Directive (2004/35/CE) ("EU Law": has to be implemented within the legal system in all states that are EU members)
As USA repeatedly proven, even if a country has acknowledge an International Convention, not much happens if it breaks it. Insufficiently implementing an EU directive, on the other hand, result in heavy fines for countries that do that and they may even be kicked out of EU.
Ok, but no need to spread it around.
It is.
In all jurisdictions I can think of, it qualifies as bodily harm. It doesn't matter which method of harm is used. What matters is a willfull (or in some cases grossly reckless can be enough) action that causes another person to suffer bodily harm.
Getting infected by a disease, or getting parasites, is harm.
Not very major harm, mind you, since the damage is limited to some itching until you can buy a bottle of $2 lice-killing-shampoo.
Does that include kissing someone?
Most of the population has had glandular fever at some point, and when some up and coming youngster gets kissed for the first time, chances are he/she will get it.
Do we charge these kids with wilfully spreading Infectious mononucleosis?
Or do you just calm the fuck down?
Strange how a British website is selling stuff in dollars
Do not let anyone you know shave, they are helping lice become extinct when they do that, and we really don't want to lose THIS species...
You realize that this policeman's crime affects ONE person over the course of that ONE person's life? The judge's crime affects maybe 10,000 people for their lives?
A *resistant*, *contagious* disease can be passed worldwide and affect billions. Think about how much fun smallpox, polio, TB, AIDS are. We've only successfully eradicated ONE of those. And this website is selling resistant, contagious crabs. These crabs and their descendants may possibly affect people worldwide for thousands of years and affect millions/billions of people.
Sterilized crabs are self-limiting and could be considered a "joke", but *any* contagious agent (particularly a resistant one) deliberately released has almost unlimited potential for misery.
I mean, what if these crabs get loose in Africa and, because they suck blood, open up small wounds in people and marginally (1%) increases the transmissibility of AIDS? How many hundreds of thousands will die, potentially, because of that? You don't know that won't happen, do you?
The crimes you mentioned, these are very limited in scope compared to a general crime against ALL of humanity that *deliberately* creating and unleashing a contagious, resistant disease/parasite is.
I say again, I can think of no worse crime.
--PM
No thanks... I already have my own personal collection.
Thanks, that at least addresses the depilatory option, even if the one described isn't available outside of Germany/Europe. I would have assumed all of them were too harsh for such use.
But it still leaves open the question of how to safely shave male naughty bits...
- T
You just did it yourself.
Cause, one man's "private citizen" is other man's "terrorist insurgent".
If I recall correctly, there were even couple of wars started as an answer to "terrorist acts" by "private citizens".
World War I being maybe the most famous. So far.
Or do you really think that there exists such an action that is illegal for a state to commit against another state, but completely legal for their citizens?
Particularly regarding something that can be classified as a biological weapon.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Or do you really think that there exists such an action that is illegal for a state to commit against another state, but completely legal for their citizens?
Particularly regarding something that can be classified as a biological weapon.
That's only of partial relevance to whether or not something is an act of terrorism. Under 18 USC 23331, to be an act of domestic or international terrorism, an act must both be a violent crime and intended to either (a) intimidate or coerce a civilian population, (b) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, (c) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.
That's the hard part. There are many laws that make giving someone pubic lice illegal, but unless you can figure out a way to intimidate the public or the government by doing so, it's not terrorism. That is the line that divides terrorism from just any other violent act. You have to be trying to influence the people with your actions -- not just getting petty revenge on your girlfriend. The same applies even if you used anthrax or smallpox against her.
(I'm also not 100% sure that giving her pubic lice would count as a violent crime, but I'm 90% sure that it is since it's a form of battery at the least.)
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").