Russia is Apparently Full of Cannibals

Maybe it's something in the water, but Russians seemingly can't get enough of each other when it comes to dinner.

I didn't post it, but I found this story last week about a man who ate his own mother. Then this morning there is this story about three homeless men who ate one of their own and sold parts of his body to a meat shop. (On top of all else, I have to wonder what kind of a meat shop just buys unidentified meat from homeless guys off the street.) Parts of the victim's body were later found at a bus stop near the Russian city of Perm.

The three real-life Hannibal Lecters are believed to have killed their 25-year-old brother in homelessness with knives and a hammer before chopping up his body and eating it.

The story in Pravda states that it is unclear whether any pieces of the corpse were sold to customers of the meat shop, which specialized in shwarma (a type of meat sandwich) and pies.

I wonder how the folks at HotRussianBrides.com might feel about this.

Russia sure is a crazy place. I love it.

Moscow Police Raid Lab Full of Thousands of Leeches

This has got to be one of the most disgusting things I've read about in a long time ... The lab owner sounds like he's a little bit insane. This story actually reminds me of those stories you hear about a lot in the U.S. having to do with old ladies who keep hundreds of cats in their house ...

Moscow Police Raid Lab Full of Thousands of Harmful Leeches

Like a scene out of a horror movie, police in Moscow recently dismantled an underground laboratory, which housed more than 4,000 harmful leeches.

When police raided the lab, they found leeches crawling on the floors, walls and ceiling, according to a report in Pravda, a Russian news service. Lab personnel had reportedly been terrorized by the leeches numerous times, with one employee claiming he barely managed to take a leech off his leg when the creature attacked him.

Read the rest of the story here ...